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Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports, including analytics, user activity, alert trends and cases created. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new alerts & cases report. 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. The new feature is rolling out now for all clients.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recap changes over more time

Recapping the changes you made in Loop is no longer limited to the current session. You can now recap changes that were made over a longer period of time.
ID: 369865 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Loop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Increasing policy template limits for Insider Risk Management

Insider Risk Management will increase policy creation limits from 20 policies per template to 100 maximum overall active policies. For example, an organization may have 50 data leak policy templates because the limit will now apply to all active policies versus each policy template.

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 Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 477364 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot

Once you connect your asset library hosted with Templafy to Microsoft365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images
ID: 478643 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Email Previews for Live Surveys

Customers can preview and test email notifications for survey start (available in VG), survey reminder and survey end/results rollout after configuring and approving program settings.
ID: 478915 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Multi-language posts

Authors of Viva Engage posts will be able to add multiple manually written translations to a single post.
ID: 478924 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2025

Microsoft Viva: New Viva Glint Tenant Administrator Role

We are excited to announce the upcoming Viva Glint Tenant Administrator role in Microsoft Entra. With this role, admins will have dedicated permissions to manage Viva Glint-related settings in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC), without requiring the elevated privileges of Global or User admin roles. This role is essential for users who need to: read and configure all settings of Viva Glint in MAC, assign Viva Glint service admins, and create or manage Azure support tickets.
ID: 479414 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Full file evidence support for restricted apps

Full File Evidence supports activities like Cloud egress, paste to supported browser, copy to USB, Network share, RDP, Bluetooth app. Now we are expanding full file evidence collection for unallowed apps as well.
ID: 479757 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution in Teams Rooms on Android

You can now take advantage of speaker recognition, transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in Teams Rooms on Android. Intelligent speaker functionalities are brought to existing speakers via the cloud. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Premium in meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 480715 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

SharePoint: Share site’s built-in agent

Allows the built in SharePoint agent on a site to be shared and used in Teams.
ID: 480721 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

SharePoint: Agent usage statistics per SharePoint site

SharePoint agents’ usage statistics will be available for every SharePoint site. This will be available on the site analytics page for the site owner persona. This will also include analytics on how many times source files are cited.

ID: 480725 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights

Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI.
ID: 480726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

SharePoint: Edit SharePoint site’s built-in agent

Allows the built in SharePoint agent to be edited without having to create a new agent for the site.
ID: 480727 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage

With this update, Insider Risk Management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.

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 Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 480730 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Add Allow/Off mode for each Action type overall enforcement

With Off, Endpoint DLP will not fire any event/Alert and will not trigger any toast. The customer can use this enforcement mode to have restriction for a specific group. With Allow, Endpoint DLP will not fire any Alert and will not trigger any toast but will fire an event on Activity Explorer. Currently, Endpoint DLP only supports Audit only, Block, and Block With override.
ID: 480731 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP

Currently, you can create a Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign it to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release features based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for the same user on different devices.
ID: 480732 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP shows full path of target domain

Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer.
ID: 480734 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Report a Message for External Collaboration

Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats.
ID: 481147 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

Windows 365: Windows app on Android GA, including MAM support

Mobile Application Management (MAM) support GA will be aligned with Windows App on Android GA.
ID: 481150 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Loop workspaces for Microsoft 365 GCC

Loop workspaces and the full Loop app experience are available to Microsoft 365 GCC customers at loop.cloud.microsoft.
ID: 481154 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Loop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: Enrich the details of the auto forwarded emails in the Exchange DLP

We are excited to introduce an enhancement to our system that will provide more accurate and detailed information for forwarded emails. This new feature will ensure that the correct user, recipient information, and email evidence are displayed in the alert generated. This improvement will help admins accurately trace the origin and intended recipient of forwarded emails, reducing confusion and minimizing the risk of false positives. The update will be reflected in our audit logs, alerts page, and activity explorer page
ID: 481343 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Add Allow/Off mode for each Action type overall enforcement

Currently Endpoint DLP only supports Audit only, Block, Block with override. This feature will add Off and Allow. Off means Endpoint DLP will not fire any event/Alert and will not trigger any toast. Customer can use this enforcement mode to have restriction for specific group. Allow means Endpoint DLP will not fire any Alert and will not trigger any toast but will fire event on Activity Explorer.
ID: 481356 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels

SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat.
ID: 481822 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agents in Teams Mobile

Use SharePoint agents in Teams Mobile group chats and meetings.

ID: 481823 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store

You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store.

ID: 481824 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

SharePoint: Add multiple SharePoint agents in Teams chats and meetings

Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams chat or meeting.

ID: 481826 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal

Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. New search features include the ability to conduct precise searches using identifier (message ID), sensitivity labels, audit log, or evidence file. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion.
ID: 383744 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025

Outlook: Add Shared Folders to Favorites in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Customers will have the ability to add shared folders to their favorites. This enhancement offers users increased flexibility and convenience, allowing easy and quick access to important shared content directly from their Favorites list. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 388913 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025

SharePoint: Flexible Layouts

New flexible layout sections allow authors to build pages without the strict column structure. Web parts can be dynamically resized and moved within the flexible section.
ID: 395213 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages

Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats.
ID: 419812 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities

Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. 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 Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 420939 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot

In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends.
ID: 422718 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0)

We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike.
ID: 422813 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within GCCH

Users within GCCH will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams.
ID: 468867 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode New Flow

Together mode will get a new simplified flow which will take the user from the beginning to the end through the steps of setting up the scene, assigning the seats and applying for everyone in the call in a transparent and easy-to-understand way. The function itself does not change but there will be more transparency thanks to the icons on the meeting toolbar for an easy access for each next step in the familiar Together mode flow.
ID: 470427 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: End the Session for Attendees and Presenters Return to Green Room

Organizers and presenters can now end the session with this new “End Event” button for town halls, webinars, and structured meetings. After selecting this button, attendees will see a message on stage stating that the session has concluded, and presenters will return to the Green Room.
ID: 470432 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Navigate meetings and messages hands-free with Teams in CarPlay

Stay connected on the move with Teams in CarPlay. Use Siri to respond to notifications and send messages in Teams. Easily join meetings and engage in discussions with quick actions like raising your hand.
ID: 470998 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting Notes now available in Microsoft Teams for Education

Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop, is now available in Microsoft Teams for Education. Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner.
ID: 471005 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within DoD

Users within DoD will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams.
ID: 473448 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover all prompt collections in the new Copilot Prompt Gallery app within Microsoft 365

The new Copilot Prompt Gallery app provides a central place to find, save, and share prompts available from Microsoft 365 Copilot apps and agents. You can also explore and use a curated selection of suggested prompts organized by role, function, or industry. This app will be available on Teams, Outlook and www.microsoft365.com.
ID: 473463 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams meetings for GCC

Copilot helps you run more effective meetings, get up to speed on the conversation, organize key discussion points, and summarize key actions so it’s clear what you need to do next. Users can type any question or use predetermined prompts during or after the meeting, and their interactions with Copilot are only visible to them. This feature is already available in worldwide multitenant and will now be available for customers in GCC.
ID: 476072 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: February CY2025

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning “Multilayer structuring, customization, and branding for learning academies

This feature set brings new functionality to learning academies. Multi-layer structuring allows users to organize content and learning paths under multiple levels. Branding capabilities include the customization of the academy logo and the background image. Customization allows users to hide or show individual components of an academy like featured sets and learner profile cards.
ID: 334010 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning “Edit Learning Paths in Viva Learning

Admin will be able to edit learning paths metadata and content. Latest updates will be shown to learner after the LP is edited.
ID: 396286 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy

Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set.
ID: 412065 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – General availability of Microsoft partner data connectors for T-Mobile and HKCSL

These connectors will support ingestion for T-Mobile and HKCSL data to user mailboxes and makes them available for compliance.
ID: 477365 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025

Canceled

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Set survey be closed at a specific time.

We are removing this Viva Glint item related to ‘Self-Service’ from the Microsoft 365 public roadmap. This decision is part of our efforts to streamline our product offerings and focus on key priorities.
ID: 163985 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience

We are removing this Viva Glint item related to Viva Glint Admin from the Microsoft 365 public roadmap. This decision is streamline this into specific items related to Viva Glint Admin.
ID: 383726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Outlook: Show shared folders and mailboxes as accounts in the New Outlook for Windows

To enhance your experience in Outlook, we’re introducing changes to how shared mailboxes and folders are displayed. Shared mailboxes and shared folders will now appear directly in your account list in the folder pane, alongside your primary account and other connected accounts. This improvement makes navigation more intuitive by treating shared resources as separate accounts, providing quick and organized access. As part of this update, we are removing the “Shared With” node from the folder pane. All shared resources will now be integrated directly into the accounts list for a cleaner and more consistent navigation experience. This update streamlines how shared resources are managed and accessed, helping you stay productive and focused. #newoutlookforwindows This feature will be merged with feature 375635.
ID: 472923 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025