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Agent-MCP Orchestration in Teams enables Channel agent to work with select third-party MCP servers, such as GitHub, Asana and Atlassian (JIRA). This setup allows collaborative workflows that mirror real human teamwork. When a user asks Channel Agent a question, the agent can collaborate with other tools to gather information or complete tasks, transparently showing each step of its reasoning along the way.
GA date: January CY2026
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Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025
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We’re introducing column metadata support for queries in Microsoft 365 Copilot when a SharePoint library or folder is attached or its URL is provided. This enhancement improves contextual relevance by enabling Copilot to leverage additional metadata from the selected library, delivering more accurate and meaningful results.
GA date: November CY2025
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Users will be able to click on "Explain this' on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
GA date: November CY2025
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Users will be able to click on "Explain this' on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
GA date: November CY2025
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Users will be able to click on "Explain this' on an acronym, text box, an image, or even a complete slide, and get a detailed contextual explanation of the selected object.
GA date: November CY2025
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This feature allows users to add only a sampled subset of search results to a review set, rather than adding the entire query output. Users can configure sampling parameters—such as confidence level and sample size—to ensure the subset meets their review objectives while reducing unnecessary data ingestion.
GA date: December CY2025
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Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on 'Add agents and bots' from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group.
GA date: November CY2025
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The PDF Viewer in Microsoft Edge is migrating to WebUI2, enhancing responsiveness and introducing a series of subtle visual upgrades aimed at improving overall usability and utility. This migration ensures UI coherence with the rest of the browser while maintaining the same user experience. The update focuses on improving underlying performance, consistency in design elements, and a smoother interaction without altering any existing workflows for users.
GA date: May CY2026
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Schema enrichment & validation for custom connectors for better relevance & UX (Property descriptions, content Category attributes and additional semantic labels)
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025
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Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: November CY2025
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Users can share custom engine agents with others to boost collaboration and reuse
GA date: December CY2025
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We are expanding Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts containing sensitive data. This real-time control helps organizations mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks by preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot, including pre-built agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, from returning a response when prompts contain sensitive data or using that sensitive data for grounding in Microsoft 365 or the web.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025
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Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
GA date: December CY2025
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Users will be able to upload files stored locally or in one drive to custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025
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Theme moderation in Engage will soon offer an option to block message creation if content aligns with a theme. This change expands on the previous release to monitor and mute content based on themes. When a theme is blocked, users will see a message explaining why their message can't be published. Users can edit or discard the message. Admins and corporate communicators can control where blocks happen across storylines and communities. Leaders, corporate communicators, and network/verified/Engage admins cannot be blocked regardless of theme.
GA date: January CY2026
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Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
GA date: December CY2025
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Teams town hall will soon bring 1080P resolution to Teams town hall. This enhancement brings a sharper appearance with more visual clarity to videos, images, and other visual assets within your online events. This feature is available for town halls created by organizers with a Teams Premium license.
GA date: November CY2025
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Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: January CY2026
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Support of Audit logs for custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025
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Users will now have access to their Copilot Notebooks on the web version of OneNote.
GA date: November CY2025
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Copilot in PowerPoint now helps you create a compelling title, a concise summary, or captions for your visuals. Just describe what you want in natural language and Copilot will generate text based on the content of your slide. It’s a simple way to turn ideas into content quickly.
GA date: December CY2025
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Pre-setup guides, editability, actionable errors & alerting support available for Connector admins.
GA date: December CY2025
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Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: November CY2025
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This enables users to export row-level Copilot metrics from the Copilot Dashboard for reporting and deeper analysis.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025
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Once you connect your asset library hosted on Adobe Experience Manager to Microsoft365 and Copilot, Copilot will create presentations using your organization's images.
GA date: November CY2025
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Drive Copilot chat engagement for 3P content via deep citations, inline citations, side by side preview experiences.
GA date: March CY2026
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Executive Assistants can now seamlessly schedule, edit, and send meeting invites on behalf of their leaders directly within Copilot chat. Using simple chat commands, they can create invites, make updates, and add attendees—all without leaving the chat experience.
GA date: January CY2026
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Add web links as references in your Copilot Notebooks.
GA date: November CY2025
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Use rollback all devices to quickly revert updates for all device managed by cloud update and on the latest N-0 release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. This feature helps recover devices to a previous version of Microsoft 365 Apps in the event an issue occurs following an update. Updates can then be resumed from the portal or with the next release of Monthly Enterprise Channel. It works for organizations of any size and delivers a quick and efficient recovery method.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025
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Delegates can now use Copilot chat to quickly find their leader’s meetings—past or upcoming—by simply asking questions. They can search by attendee name, meeting title, location, or time range to instantly get details like the next 1:1 or upcoming appointments.
GA date: January CY2026
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Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot your AI assistant for work in the GCC-H environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (web), Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint, and Clipchamp.
GA date: November CY2025
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Start a chat with anyone who has an email address, even if they're not on Teams! They'll receive an email inviting them to join your chat session as a guest. You'll be able to chat, share files, and start calls all within Teams!
GA date: November CY2025
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Align the community feeds default experience with expected user behaviors; support triage and content review for users who want to read every message in a community.
GA date: January CY2026
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Delegates can now manage their leader’s meetings directly through Copilot chat reviewing pending invites, accepting or declining meetings, categorizing, or even deleting them all through simple chat commands without leaving the conversation.
GA date: January CY2026
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Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Fresh service to access IT service documentation with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025
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Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Dropbox to access and manage cloud files with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025
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Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Zendesk Help Center to retrieve support articles and FAQs with Copilot Connector
GA date: December CY2025
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Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Egnyte to collaborate on secure file storage with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025
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Customers can connect M365 Copilot with Amazon S3 to access structured document repositories with Copilot Connector.
GA date: December CY2025
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We're improving version history for SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries generated with grid view editing. This change improves reliability, reduces storage, and streamlines the user experience by consolidating multiple edits into one where possible. Automation rules and flows, if configured with item level edits, will also now trigger more efficiently.
GA date: November CY2025
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The hide user feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center.
GA date: January CY2026
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Within the Teams Settings app, we are now allowing the user to search for their desired setting through the search text box.
GA date: November CY2025
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Video recaps in Copilot Chat makes it easy to catch up on recorded meetings directly in Copilot Chat. It identifies and extracts key topics from transcripts, provides AI generated narration to summarize discussions, and pairs these with 20–40 second video snippets highlighting impactful moments of your meeting.
GA date: November CY2025
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New analytics experiences available that complement the new Viva Engage Events.
GA date: December CY2025
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"Copilot Notebooks will be available to 13-17 year-old users (students) with Entra ID accounts within the Microsoft 365 Copilot and OneNote apps.
GA date: November CY2025
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This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user's potentially risky interactions. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user's history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.
GA date: October CY2025
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Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.
GA date: November CY2025
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Microsoft 365 Chat brings the power of conversational AI directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, enabling users to move effortlessly from finding information to acting on it. Search results become the foundation for contextual chat, allowing you to ask follow-up questions, synthesize insights, and generate content—all in one unified experience. This integration reduces workflow fragmentation, accelerates decision-making, and delivers a more intuitive way to interact with your organization’s knowledge.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: January CY2026
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Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies.
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025
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Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad.
GA date: November CY2025
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Find meetings—and everything connected to them, in seconds. Copilot Search makes it effortless to locate any meeting, even if you only remember a few details. Just type what comes to mind—like “last week’s design review”, “budget sync with marketing”, or “next quarterly planning session”—and Copilot instantly finds the right event. Copilot doesn’t just show you the meeting invite. It brings together the full context: who attended, what was discussed, what files were shared, and what follow-ups were assigned. Whether you're preparing for an upcoming meeting or trying to recall what was decided in a past one, Copilot gives you a complete, connected view—all from a single search bar.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025
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This feature introduces the ability to classify DLP alerts directly in the Purview portal. In addition to assigning a status, customers can now categorize alerts as True Positive, False Positive, or Benign Positive. This capability helps security teams better organize, track, and manage alerts, enabling more accurate reporting and efficient incident handling.
GA date: November CY2025
Preview date: October CY2025
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Video overviews in Copilot Notebook generate concise, Copilot-powered videos with narration, visuals, diagrams, and text overlays—making it easy to summarize the content of your Notebook.
GA date: November CY2025
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In addition to Teams Cast and HDMI ingest; you are able to share wirelessly using Miracast with Teams Rooms on Windows devices including touch boards. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: December CY2025
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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management variant limit is being increased from 3 to 10 per indicator and an overall limit of 100 across all indicators. Along with this, the number of items in one detection group is being increased from 200 to 500.
GA date: December CY2025
Preview date: November CY2025
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Monitor or protect file with unsaved sensitive content from being printed or being moved to USB or network share.
GA date: October CY2025
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Organizational Messages now includes Email as a delivery channel, expanding beyond existing surfaces such as the Windows Taskbar, Windows Notifications, Windows Spotlight, and Teams Popovers.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025
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Action Segments empowers IT Admins to target Organizational Messages using dynamic, pre-defined usage segments. This behavior-based targeting approach goes beyond existing static group definitions, ensuring messages reach the most relevant users.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025
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Organizational Messages now supports Hybrid-joined Devices.
GA date: March CY2026
Preview date: December CY2025
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After executing a search in classic Outlook, users will have the option to easily opt into seeing an AI generated summary of their search results in their Copilot side pane. They can ask further questions in their chat, navigate to cited files and emails, or go back to their email experience easily.
GA date: December CY2025
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Manage individual Windows quality updates including non-Security and out of band updates. Choose which update types to automatically approve and the rollout options for those approvals.
GA date: February CY2026
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To give organization administrators and adoption managers better visibility into usage intensity of Microsoft 365 Copilot , the Copilot usage report will be updated to include the tenant-wide count of prompts submitted in total and per-user average. The report will include a count of prompts submitted and the active usage days per user for the selected time period (anonymized by default).
GA date: October CY2025
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Use the tools menu in Copilot Chat to co-create content or code with Copilot in a Page and share with others when ready.
GA date: October CY2025
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Users can quickly add a Search result as a reference to a Copilot Notebook within the M365 Copilot app.
GA date: November CY2025
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You can now open channels in a separate window to stay on top of multiple conversations at once.
GA date: December CY2025
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The new Outlook for web and Windows now offers expanded Conditional Formatting options, allowing you to highlight emails based on size, read/unread status, presence of attachments, flag settings, categories, or importance. These enhanced rules make it easier to identify critical messages at a glance and visually organize your folders. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: November CY2025
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Tab Search helps users stay organized by letting them quickly find and reopen recently closed tabs or search across all open ones in a single view. From the same menu, they can also enable Vertical Tabs, access the AI-powered Organize Tabs feature, and open Workspaces.
GA date: October CY2025
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will be generally available for the GCC High environment, and it will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC High compliance boundary.
GA date: November CY2025
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When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: December CY2025
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Track user sentiment of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Understand how users perceive Copilot value by analyzing the breakdown of thumbs up and thumbs down ratings after Copilot interactions. See trends over time and breakdowns by group.
GA date: January CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025
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New Create module within M365 Copilot App to access Word, Excel and PPT templates.
GA date: November CY2025
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Browse your company’s approved logos, icons, and photos right inside PowerPoint—no need to search elsewhere. Stay on brand and compliant with easy access to your organization’s asset library and connected image sources.
GA date: October CY2025
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Search for images by message content, people, or where they were shared. See results as you type, filter to show only images, or explore them in the dedicated Images tab — all from the search bar.
GA date: November CY2025
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Use the new =COPILOT function directly in Excel formulas to generate, classify, and summarize text and data.
GA date: November CY2025
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Graph API for custom connectors will provide the options to configure icons, visibility, connection metadata, property descriptions and more semantic labels for improved relevance and UX.
GA date: December CY2025
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When you choose “Run Rule Now” in Outlook, you’ll now see a visual progress indicator in both the message list and the rules page, showing that the rule is actively being applied. This helps confirm the action is in progress especially for large mailboxes, so you’re not left wondering if anything is happening. #newoutlookforwindows
GA date: December CY2025
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Admins now have visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time.
GA date: December CY2025
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Viva Insights is creating an Agent Dashboard, designed to be a central place for leaders, delegates and analysts to understand how your organization is adopting agents. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: February CY2026
Preview date: November CY2025
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When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
GA date: November CY2025
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Quickly send images to Bing Visual Search from the Edge Desktop Search Bar to identify images, people, animals, and shows; extract, copy, and translate text while keeping its format. Solve questions quickly in various subjects and get trusted information to boost your knowledge. Discover products, fashion, recipes, identify a location and more. Available on Windows devices.  Admins can control availability to this feature using the VisualSearchEnabled policy. 
GA date: October CY2025
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Live subtitles for voice chats in Copilot will be available for users to help them follow the conversation when using the quick composer.
GA date: October CY2025
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Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 now allows administrators to upload historical HR data manually via CSV files. A new toggle in the upload experience lets admins specify whether the data is current or historical. For historical uploads, admins can assign an effective date to the file, ensuring accurate ingestion and processing by downstream apps like Viva Insights. This update improves data consistency across M365 and Viva apps and supports retroactive updates for organizational reporting.
GA date: September CY2025
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Users can share a Copilot Notebook they’ve created with others. All references, instructions, and context in the shared notebook will be accessible to collaborators, while your chats remain private.
GA date: October CY2025
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Department Billing for Microsoft 365 Backup enables administrators to configure backups by granular scopes—such as departments, geographic locations, or member firms—and manage pay-as-you-go charges across multiple Azure subscriptions. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), department-specific backup administrators can be assigned, ensuring management control, and tailored backup management aligned to organizational boundaries.
GA date: October CY2025
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This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email inside content explorer.
GA date: October CY2025
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The Aggregate parameter switch returns the folder level aggregated numbers instead of returning details at the item level. You don't need to specify a value with this switch. Using this switch significantly reduces the export time. To download the items in a folder, run this cmdlet for specific folders. When you use this switch with the TagName, TagType and Workload parameters, the command returns the following information: SiteUlrs: OneDrive and SharePoint. UPNs: Exchange Online and Teams. The count of items stamped with that tag.
GA date: October CY2025
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Use the new PAYGO consumption-based meter to pay for your extra SharePoint storage needs. This reduces the operational overhead associated with purchasing extra storage packs and more seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 Archive.
GA date: February CY2026
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Specify and manage SharePoint sites deemed as authoritative content to enhance their relevance and ranking in Microsoft 365 Copilot Search. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, under Copilot > Search > Authoritative content, add and manage up to 100 SharePoint sites. #copilotcontrolsystem
GA date: October CY2025
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Microsoft Edge will detect and revoke malicious sideloaded extensions.
GA date: December CY2025
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Users in GCC-M will be able to use custom engine agents.
GA date: December CY2025
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IT administrators for Gov cloud customers now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the "Give and Take Control" and "Screenshare" features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Microsoft Purview Portal. Available for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD cloud environments.
GA date: October CY2025
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This unblocks customers from searching for meetings specifying the categories they have added in Outlook.
GA date: October CY2025
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Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific shared channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts.
GA date: October CY2025
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Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.
GA date: December CY2025
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Choose an emoji to accompany section names in your chats and channels list.
GA date: November CY2025
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Providing a new mode to count EDM Matches where each row is counted once in addition to the current behavior where each primary element is counted once
GA date: October CY2025
Preview date: September CY2025
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Introducing enhancements to metadata reporting in item.csv exports and Add To Review set CSVs, including new fields such as error details, isEncrypted, and sensitivity label. These updates provide clearer, more detailed insights into items processed during export and review workflows.
GA date: October CY2025
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We’re introducing more flexible and precise targeting capabilities in Viva Engage, starting with Storyline Announcements. This new feature allows leaders and their delegates to define a custom audience at the time of posting, without relying on pre-configured Leader Audiences. Audiences can be built, and saved for reuse, using organizational attributes such as department, job title, or country, existing groups like M365 Groups, distribution lists, or security groups, and even individual users by name. This flexibility enables more relevant communication, helping leaders reach the right people with the right message. Notifications and delivery channels, including Teams and email, will continue to follow existing Storyline Announcement behavior, ensuring a seamless experience for recipients. This feature is designed to help leaders tailor communications to specific departments, locations, or groups, enhancing engagement and relevance across the organization.
GA date: January CY2026
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We're expanding the capability to require explicit consent for recording and transcription to include 1:1 calls in Microsoft Teams. A new setting in the Teams Calling policy allows admins to enforce this requirement before recording or transcription can begin. When a user with the policy initiates recording, transcription, or both in a 1:1 call, the other participant is automatically muted, with their camera and content sharing turned off. The participant will see a prompt asking whether they consent to be included in the recording and transcription.
GA date: December CY2025
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