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In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Web, General Availability, Preview
IRM admins can now select DLP alerts as indicators in IRM policies. IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM. By enabling this indicator, admins can detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins view this information within IRM itself without having to switch to DLP.
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
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025
21-Jan-2025 19:15
21-Jan-2025 19:15
In development, Targeted Release, General Availability, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Mac, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
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 Mac in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish, with additional languages coming soon.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: May CY2025
21-Jan-2025 19:15
21-Jan-2025 19:15
In development, GCC High, DoD, GCC, Microsoft Intune, Mac, Desktop, General Availability, Linux
This provides simplified onboarding changes to MDE attach functionality through integration with Intune and Defender.
GA date: March CY2025
21-Jan-2025 19:15
21-Jan-2025 19:15
In development, General Availability, Desktop, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Use the dictation button to input your prompts with speech.
GA date: February CY2025
21-Jan-2025 19:15
21-Jan-2025 19:15
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Web, General Availability, Preview
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.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, General Availability, Web, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, GCC, GCC High, DoD
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.
GA date: August CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Web, General Availability, Preview
Data classification on files in MacOS devices will be triggered when handling files on read access to improve classification operations.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, Preview, General Availability, Web, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
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.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, DoD, GCC High, GCC, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Web, General Availability
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.
GA date: June CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, General Availability, Targeted Release, Web, SharePoint, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD
This creates Preview mode for authors to view how their Pages and News will look across different device types while editing.
GA date: March CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Planner, Web, Teams and Surface Devices, General Availability
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.
GA date: February CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, General Availability, Desktop, Microsoft Teams, GCC, Mac, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
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.
GA date: March CY2025
17-Jan-2025 18:15
17-Jan-2025 18:15
In development, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, Android
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.
GA date: March CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Android, Microsoft Teams, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), General Availability, Targeted Release
With this feature, users will now be able to add and edit external contacts from Teams phone devices.
GA date: March CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, SharePoint, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Web, General Availability
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.
GA date: January CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, General Availability, Desktop, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook
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
GA date: February CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, General Availability, Web, Desktop, DoD, Mac, Microsoft Teams
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.
GA date: March CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Preview, General Availability, Microsoft Viva, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams, iOS, Android
New, mobile-first experience to participate in communities aligned to personal interests and job functions.
GA date: March CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Microsoft Teams, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Desktop, General Availability, Targeted Release
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.
GA date: March CY2025
16-Jan-2025 19:00
16-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), General Availability, Preview, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Web
A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot.
GA date: April CY2025
Preview date: February CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), General Availability, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web, Desktop
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.
GA date: April CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, GCC, GCC High, DoD, General Availability, Web, Microsoft Purview compliance portal
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.
GA date: February CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Desktop, General Availability, Preview, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Planner
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.
GA date: May CY2025
Preview date: April CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Preview, Microsoft Graph, General Availability, Web
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.
GA date: June CY2025
Preview date: March CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Web, Desktop, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Outlook
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
GA date: March CY2025
15-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Mac, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), General Availability, Desktop, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Web
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.
GA date: February CY2025
14-Jan-2025 19:00
14-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Desktop, Targeted Release, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Mac, Microsoft 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.
GA date: March CY2025
14-Jan-2025 19:00
15-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Mac, Android, Microsoft Teams, iOS, GCC, General Availability, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Desktop, Web
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.
GA date: February CY2025
14-Jan-2025 19:00
14-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Developer
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.
GA date: March CY2025
14-Jan-2025 19:00
14-Jan-2025 19:00
In development, Desktop, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
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.
GA date: February CY2025
13-Jan-2025 19:15
13-Jan-2025 19:15