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Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types, but for other extensions, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach is because it requires manually enumerating all desired file extensions. This upcoming feature will enable blanket protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope. This update is expected out this month.
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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Feature access management UI in Admin Center
Through the new Feature Access management user interface, admins will be able to manage feature access settings directly in Microsoft 365 admin center. Feature access management allows admins to use access policies to manage which users can access specific features in Viva apps, so you can tailor your deployments to meet your local regulatory or business requirements. Previously, these policies could only be managed with Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets. After this rollout, admins can choose to use either Microsoft 365 admin center or PowerShell to manage feature access. Existing policies set for an organization will persist and can be managed in both places.
ID: 470140 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Analytics available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Analytics is designed to empower every IT and business leader to measure adoption and business impact of Copilot and agents with out-of-the-box experiences in Copilot Dashboard and customizable reporting for deeper analysis against your KPIs. With Viva Insights included, IT admins and analysts can now tailor advanced prebuilt Copilot reports with their business data or create custom reports with organizational attributes, longer usage data sets, and more granular controls.
ID: 471002 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Windows 365: Concurrency assignment for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode
Concurrency assignment in Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode refers to the number of active Cloud PCs that can be used simultaneously within the total number of licensed Cloud PC usage for Frontline. This allocation ensures that resources are optimized based on the specific needs of the organization and its users.
ID: 473454 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for Web
Using everyday language, ask Copilot to perform advanced analytics that would usually take you hours or is beyond your skillset like machine learning, predictive forecasting, and more. Copilot will write Python code for you and insert it on the grid, resulting in deeper insights and stunning visuals. Available on Excel for the Web in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish, with additional languages coming soon.
ID: 473459 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types
Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope.
ID: 473460 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies in Exchange
The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail
ID: 473493 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc individual desk booking in Teams
While previously able to reserve a spot within a desk pool, now you can book an individual desk when plugging into a shared desk peripheral. In addition, IT admins can get valuable individual desk utilization data in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal making flexible work environments better for users and IT. This feature requires a Teams Premium license.
ID: 473570 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Community replies and reactions in Teams
Users with the Viva Engage app in Teams will now receive notifications when others reply or react to their posts.
ID: 474126 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can build custom engine agents with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
Developers can use the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK to create custom engine agents. These agents, built on their own AI stack, can be deployed to various platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and other non-Microsoft channels.
ID: 474445 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Automatic project scaffolding in Teams Toolkit for building Graph connectors
Developers can now leverage an automatic project scaffolding for Graph connector applications within the Teams Toolkit, allowing for the generation of a full production-ready Graph connector application from just an API description file, significantly reducing setup time and complexity.
ID: 474447 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience
Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience for declarative agents and API plugins in Teams Toolkit.
ID: 474449 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Copilot Chat developer mode
Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug.
ID: 474450 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Excel: Python in Excel
Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users with access to Excel for Windows will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.
ID: 475046 Release: Excel – GCC Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints
OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator can be used for 30 days and will not scan images for sensitive content.
ID: 475063 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Bookings: ”Cc” functionality to email notifications
“CC” additional email addresses on confirmation & reminder emails for 1:1 & N:1 appointments.
ID: 66141 Release: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms
Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants.
ID: 121269 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Video clip in channel
You can now use Teams video clip in channel, in addition to chat. Record yourself, your screen, or an audio-only clip and attach the video clip to your channel post or reply.
ID: 383740 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.)
With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn’t complete scanning, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, document name contains words or phrases, and document is password protected.
ID: 410523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying or forwarding of live captions, transcript, and recap for meetings (Premium)
We are expanding the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap.
ID: 416072 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams phone devices
Queues app on Teams phone devices enhances call management capabilities by allowing agents to handle incoming calls, view call queues, and manage call history directly from their Teams phone devices, improving efficiency and ensuring effortless communication for agents.
ID: 416282 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices
Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience.
ID: 416288 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels
Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel’s home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams.
ID: 417153 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces
You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user’s PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. 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 in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room.
ID: 417155 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion
You can now insert a hyperlink in your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialog box.
ID: 420942 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window
When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes.
ID: 421607 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Automatically set workplace presence to the building level in Teams
When you connect to peripherals in a bring your own device (BYOD) room or at a bookable desk, your workplace presence in Teams will automatically be set to the building level (if you and your admin have given permission), simplifying coordination with others and enabling AI-assisted booking in the future.
ID: 422807 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events
We’re adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license.
ID: 423475 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town halls now available in GCC-High
Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 423478 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town halls in GCC-High (Premium)
Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 423479 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars
IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars.
ID: 381950 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for town hall
IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for town halls.
ID: 383530 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Reset people suggestions in Outlook search for GCC, GCC High, and DoD
This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through settings in the Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. When a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. This feature is already available in worldwide multitenant and will now be available for customers in GCC, GCC High, and DoD #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 467252 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
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