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Delegates will soon be able to create new categories on behalf of the person who granted them permissions and apply them to the Calendar of that same person. Delegates can view the list of the delegator’s Categories by visiting the settings window.
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Outlook: Delegates can now create new categories for the account owner’s Calendar
Delegates can now create new categories on behalf of the person who granted them permissions. They can also apply said categories to the Calendar of that same person who granted them permissions. Delegates can view the list of the delegator’s Categories by visiting the Accounts > Categories page of the Settings window and selecting the delegator’s account from the dropdown. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 473438 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
SharePoint: Preview for Pages and News
This creates Preview mode for authors to view how their Pages and News will look across different device types while editing.
ID: 473452 Release: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python Language Expansion for Windows
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 Windows in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish, with additional languages coming soon.
ID: 473458 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 extensibility – Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents to run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents using Teams Toolkit & Microsoft Copilot Studio, so that they can run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.
ID: 474439 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use Kiota as an API plugin generation tool
Developers using Teams Toolkit and Kiota can use them together as an API plugin generation tool. This unlocks new scenarios like searching our repository of public APIs, visually selecting the main integration endpoints and improving the maintainability of existing plugins by using a workspace file and allowing full regeneration of plugin files.
ID: 474451 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Planner: Status report emails with Project Manager Agent
A new feature in the Project Manager Agent automates the creation of status report emails for your plans. This capability streamlines project updates by generating concise, accurate, and professional email summaries based on your plan’s progress, key milestones, and upcoming tasks. With this feature, you can ensure stakeholders stay informed effortlessly, saving time while maintaining transparency and alignment across your projects.
ID: 474452 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Planner: Smart backgrounds for basic plans
Get ready to customize your plans like never before! With smart backgrounds, you’ll be able to quickly spot the right plans. This feature was part of our legacy Planner experience, and we’re now enabling it for basic plans in the new Planner.
ID: 475059 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Graph: Graph API – New Outlook for Windows usage
New Outlook for Windows usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. This will facilitate the creation of customized reports and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in new Outlook for Windows usage of Microsoft 365 apps usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows, as well as flags indicating usage of the new or classic Outlook per user over the specified time period.
ID: 475245 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Windows 365: Resize is enabled for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs
When changing the Cloud PC size on a specific assignment within the provisioning policy for W365 Frontline, all of the Cloud PCs in that assignment will be resized to the newly selected Cloud PC size.
ID: 475246 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
SharePoint: Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extends support for Microsoft Office files
SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to Microsoft Office files. Previously, OCR was limited to PDFs and images but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from any embedded images within any Microsoft Office files like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
ID: 475248 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot
You will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments with Copilot in Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 475249 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Webinars in DoD
Teams Webinars are now available for the DoD community. DoD users can now schedule webinar instances with internal audiences, and leverage capabilities such as creation of an event page, attendee registration, automated emails, and more.
ID: 475279 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI
A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot.
ID: 475377 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Quick sharing of files in Teams
Share a file from a chat conversation, Shared tab or a channel post to 1:1 chats, group chats, or channels with fewer clicks. When files are shared, their permissions are maintained, ensuring that recipients have the appropriate access rights. You can add additional information to your message and @mention recipients for greater clarity and alignment.
ID: 475852 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Native Bluetooth call controls over Hands-Free Protocol for multiple peripheral devices
When you have several peripheral devices connected to Teams, the one you use to answer a call will temporarily become the main device that will be syncing with Teams when using its buttons. After the call, the original device selected in Teams settings will take over again. You can now use multiple native Bluetooth devices and be confident that call controls will function correctly with all of them.
ID: 475853 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Post and reply to questions as an organizer
Town hall and webinar organizers now have the ability to post and reply to questions using the title “organizer” in the Q&A experience, instead of their individual names. This feature allows instance organizers to present a unified and official voice when responding to attendee questions.
ID: 475856 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Share user risk details with other security solutions [Government customers only]
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is introducing sharing Insider Risk Management data with other Microsoft services for Government customers. When turned on, admins with the correct permissions will be able to review user risk details and alerts from Insider Risk Management within other solutions such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Communication Compliance, and Microsoft Defender. 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: 475857 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Support for multicloud environments
Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and GitHub. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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 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: 475858 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on activities that may lead to a data security incident in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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 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: 475859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Engage Communities app in Teams mobile
New, mobile-first experience to participate in communities aligned to personal interests and job functions.
ID: 475969 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Paste to Browser prevention support on macOS device with endpoint DLP
Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention adds support for instances where users try to paste sensitive content into a web browser on macOS devices using Edge, Safari, and other browsers.
ID: 476073 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – MacOS parity for full file evidence
Data Loss Prevention can copy the item that matches a DLP policy from onboarded MacOS devices to an Azure storage account. This creates full file evidence parity for MacOS.
ID: 476098 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Classification improvements on file read access in MacOS devices using Endpoint Data Loss Prevention
Data classification on files in MacOS devices will be triggered when handling files on read access to improve classification operations.
ID: 476099 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Adding and editing external contacts
With this feature, users will now be able to add and edit external contacts from Teams phone devices.
ID: 476485 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones
This feature allows you to configure custom contacts and speed dial on the line key of touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. It enables you to swiftly access frequently dialed numbers and contacts, incorporating one-touch/press dialing and effortless management of contact lists on touch devices.
ID: 476486 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Whiteboard: Existing Azure Board Migration
This feature will migrate boards that exist in your tenant’s Azure storage to OneDrive for Business storage. More information will follow as we near release.
ID: 117394 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars
Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.
ID: 168524 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall
Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.
ID: 377703 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Support S/MIME in the new Outlook for Windows
New Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions) signing and encryption. All new and existing S/MIME configurations will work without any explicit action from admins. The feature was already available for Web and now we are extending its availability to New Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 397891 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Copy a publication within a campaign
Gone are the days where you must rewrite or manually copy and paste content from an old publication to a newly drafted one to reuse it. Soon in Viva Amplify, you will be able to copy a publication within an existing campaign with just a few clicks. This new feature streamlines the content creation process, enabling communicators to easily reuse existing content across SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, including all channel-specific customizations and related audiences, saving you time and effort.
ID: 409234 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID)
For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups.
ID: 414515 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Take notes with Copilot in OneNote directly in the flow from the canvas
Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal non-shared OneNote notebooks directly on the page.
ID: 417475 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Email verification for external attendees to join Teams meetings
Meeting organizers can have greater confidence about external attendees joining Teams meetings, this capability enables sending a one-time passcode to the external attendee’s email address for that individual to use during a verification step when joining a Teams meeting.
ID: 418125 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Context IQ menu in Business Chat
Updates to Copilot Context IQ menu provides an intuitive and seamless interaction improving reliability and performance.
ID: 422307 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Workplace check-in with Workplace Presence
With Workplace Presence, employees will have the ability to check in to the office in Outlook, Teams, and Places to confirm their work plans, receive check-in reminders, and view others nearby and who planned to come in. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 422717 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Configure External access policies in TAC
External access policies can be managed in Teams admin center. These policies were previously only supported in PowerShell, and we are bringing the same capabilities into the Teams admin center user experience.
ID: 423476 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams
With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon.
ID: 464175 Release: Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Add emails as attachments while composing an email on Outlook for iOS and Android
Now while you are composing in Outlook for iOS or Android, you can use the same attach option you already know to select and attach emails to your mail.
ID: 464206 Release: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Schedule messages in channels
Like in chat, you can now schedule send messages in channels. You can optimize the timing of your messages based on the recipient’s work hours, out-of-office time, etc, and ensuring your messages are delivered at the most suitable time.
ID: 467447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications
You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity.
ID: 469491 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components
You can now forward chat messages containing Loop components, allowing for seamless sharing and real-time collaboration across different chats. To forward a message, navigate to it, click on the ellipsis, and select ‘Forward’ from the menu.
ID: 469507 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forward messages to and from channels
You can now forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members. To forward a channel message post, channel post reply, or chat message to another channel, 1:1 or group chat, select the message’s ellipsis menu and choose Forward.
ID: 469508 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Keyword monitoring email notification enhancements
This revamps the existing content alert (keyword monitoring) emails that admins receive to include added context on the content being monitored and minor security enhancements.
ID: 470303 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app for iOS and Android
Outlook will help you compose emails more quickly and efficiently by allowing you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. This means that, while composing an email, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder.
ID: 470304 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Information Protection: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption
Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content.
ID: 472025 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports
The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.
ID: 377680 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Copilot agents available in Business Chat web mode
In Business Chat web mode, discover and use Copilot agents available for your organization. Agents are custom grounded chats that include specific knowledge sources from work and web.
ID: 422315 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – 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 Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New email scoring capabilities
Insider risk management (IRM) email scoring logic is being updated. With current logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted multiple times, creating noise by increasing the risk score. In the new logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted once, and this new principle is applicable to the email containing multiple unallowed domains or priority content. Once this is rolled out, all the email insights in alerts will display the new count and score. 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: 469505 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize who receives shift request notifications
We will not release this feature at this time. We are sorry for any inconvenience and will continue to share updated roadmap entries as additional features and functionality become available. To streamline your workflow and reduce notifications, we’ve enhanced our notification system so that shift request alerts are now exclusively sent to schedule group owners, and not all owners of a team. This targeted approach ensures that the right people receive the necessary updates, helping team owners maintain focus.
ID: 422259 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
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