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You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.GA date: June CY2025

Copilot can now help mobile users prepare for meetings on-the-go. Copilot quickly prepares you for meetings within minutes by summarizing key information such as summaries of meeting-related emails and documents, your specific actionable tasks, and a recap of the previous meeting. This helps ensure you are well-prepared upon arrival.GA date: July CY2025

Learn about the state of your scanned repositories and create custom reports with the information protection scanner. Labeling, classification and protection actions on scanned files are stored in SQL tables that form a foundation to feed into custom reports.GA date: August CY2025Preview date: July CY2025

M365 Commercial customers can use Edge polices (WebContentFilteringBlockedCategories) to block non-secure LLMs in Edge and block other browsers to redirect users to a more secure alternative like Copilot Chat. GA date: August CY2025

You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.GA date: June CY2025

You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application.GA date: June CY2025

Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert's "All risk factors" page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page...

Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider...

Copilot makes it fast and easy to schedule a meeting from an email thread. When you use the Schedule with Copilot option, Copilot analyzes the email and creates a meeting invitation for you, filling in a meeting title and agenda, and adding the email thread as an attachment. The people on the email thread are included as meeting attendees, and you can quickly review...

Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot...

Muted Autoplay for Videos in the Engage Feed. As you scroll, videos will start playing silently—captions on, sound just a click away. Admins can enable or disable the feature for their organization. GA date: July CY2025

We are adding more offline functionality in the new Outlook for Windows. You will now be able to create, edit, and delete events in your calendar when not connected to the internet. #newoutlookforwindowsGA date: October CY2025

If an organizer updates an event that you have been invited to, you will now see Event Updated in the email and the updated location if applicable.GA date: June CY2025

This report, under Data access governance within SharePoint admin center, provides SharePoint admin with a list of sites where the given user has direct and indirect permissions at a site/lib/folder/file levelGA date: July CY2025

Use Researcher without needing to leave your Copilot Notebook to conduct complex, multi-step research across your enterprise data sources using OpenAI’s deep researcher model with chain-of-thought based iterative reasoning.GA date: July CY2025

This feature allows admins to configure line keys for various scenarios on Teams phone devices, including personal and common area phones (CAP). Scenarios supported include speed dial, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers.GA date: July CY2025

To improve clarity and transparency, we’re updating the audit data for events related to Microsoft Purview role group membership changes. This update affects audit events under the SecurityComplianceRBAC workload (RecordType 87), specifically for operations for GrantPermission, DeletePermission. While the audit schema remains unchanged, the PreExecutionMessage and PostExecutionMessage fields will be refined to better reflect the nature of the changes captured in the logs. Action...

Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider...

Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert's "All risk factors" page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page...

Copilot users will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments in classic Outlook for Windows. GA date: July CY2025Preview date: June CY2025

Threads in channels allow you to start a side conversation within a channel and focus on specific topics while keeping the main conversation clutter-free. You can reply to specific messages and create a separate thread, helping to minimize distractions and foster better collaboration.GA date: June CY2025

You will now be able to drag emails and files from one account and drop them in another account as attachments in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindowsGA date: June CY2025

You can now react to messages and posts with multiple emojis per message, enhancing your ability to express a wide range of emotions effectively. Use combinations of emojis for a richer and more nuanced response, quickly conveying your feelings and thoughts, like agreement, urgency or sentiment, without extra replies—keeping discussions focused and efficient.GA date: June CY2025

The new Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API enable customers and ISVs to export Copilot interaction data for processing in their security and compliance (S+C) applications. This new Interaction Export API captures the user prompts and Copilot responses in the Copilot private interactions and provide insights into the resources Copilot has accessed to generate the response. It will be available in Public Cloud for...

We’ve made it easier to manage files when employees leave—account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced “Move and keep sharing” feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during...

We are introducing several more enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include the ability to delete searches, bulk add data sources, custodian field for items review set and export, and advanced indexing enhancements that will further enhance the user experience in the eDiscovery modern workflows.GA date: June CY2025

Teams administrators can use the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center for monitoring significant impact on meeting quality in their tenant due to DNS resolution failures or proxy (local or cloud).GA date: July CY2025

A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives.GA date: July CY2025Preview date: June CY2025

We're introducing a sidebar experience for Copilot Chat in classic Outlook for Windows. Now, you'll be able to chat with Copilot alongside and in the context of the content you're reading or writing in Outlook. GA date: July CY2025

Users will be able to assign and remove categories to mails on Android devices.GA date: June CY2025

This feature borrows the familiar custom permissions menu in Office and replaces the existing custom permissions UI in the Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler. The new menu enables viewer, restricted editor, editor and owner permissions to be assigned to multiple groups at the same time.GA date: November CY2025Preview date: September CY2025

This feature enhances secure collaboration in your organization by using the Information Protection Filer Labeler and Viewer to apply protection from Endpoint DLP. Protected non-Office/PDF files preserve their native file format on-device and can be opened in third party applications. On egress from the machine, these files are protected as PFILEs.GA date: June CY2025Preview date: April CY2025

Allows Engage event organizers to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.GA date: June CY2025

Copilot suggests how users should RSVP to meeting requests, based on meeting importance, availability, and working hours. With help from Copilot, users can streamline meeting request triaging, increase the number of triaged meetings, and reduce the time required for triaging.GA date: July CY2025

Building on the Siri voice commands for iOS, this capability enables users to call someone or ask Copilot to summarize a meeting through Siri voice commands. GA date: July CY2025

Find the perfect image with Copilot in PowerPoint and Word. Add a licensed stock image, generate an AI image or find an image from your SharePoint OAL. Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand. Available to government cloud (GCC)...

Security admins can use the Tenant Allow/Block List feature in the Microsoft Defender portal to block domains for Microsoft Teams. GA date: July CY2025

Organizers & co-organizers can now download all event questions (within the past 28 days) —including status, source, timestamps, upvotes and reactions—in a .csv file for easy filtering, analysis, and sharing. The option to export questions is available by default, if there is at least one question posted, on the event page. GA date: June CY2025

Use your voice to talk with Copilot, interact in-real time, and understand the content within your document or presentation.GA date: May CY2025

This feature enables Viva Glint admins to create and edit hierarchies directly within the platform. It empowers admins to easily update and maintain the structure of user data without requiring support.GA date: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center will soon be available in government clouds (GCC). Tenants that have at least one Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be able to access Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center via the Copilot button on the top right corner of the screen.GA date: June CY2025

Organizers can now disable reactions in Engage events. When this setting is turned off, attendees won’t see or be able to use reactions on questions, discussions or comments. Organizers can manage this option under additional settings in the event creation/edit page. GA date: June CY2025

When users type a search query in the Edge address bar, they will have the option to send their search query directly to Copilot for a synthesized, more targeted answer pulling from across the web (and their work content, for premium users). GA date: June CY2025Preview date: May CY2025

Add images now to Copilot chat in applications of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and Outlook. Available to government cloud (GCC) environments. Ask questions about a picture or screenshot, extract text from an image, identify key takeaways from a chart or table, translate image information into copy, ask for suggestions on how to improve content, or generate alt text. GA date: June CY2025

Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets.GA date: June CY2025

This feature enables AI administrators to pin specific agents in M365 Copilot Chat for all users in the tenant or defined users and groups, improving user accessibility to the most relevant and agents for their work.GA date: May CY2025

This feature enables Glint Admins to add cycles to programs created using the "custom blank recurring" program type. Previously unavailable, this capability is now supported for both existing and newly created programs.GA date: June CY2025

This feature enables a Glint Admin to create surveys for participants who were not originally included in a live survey. With this update, the admin can modify the distribution list within the survey program settings and generate surveys for the newly added participants.GA date: June CY2025

Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the Copilot chat pane.GA date: June CY2025