What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? July 2025

Welcome to our seventh roundup of 2025. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in July.

Check out the June blog for lots of content still rolling out this month. If you are an Update Insiders member, have a sneak peek at the latest blog, as it is created throughout the month.

Here’s a reminder of what the icons mean and the order in which the updates are grouped:

✅ = Available now
🔜 = Coming soon
🕔 = Coming soon, but delayed
🔭 = Coming later; details and dates will be sketchy
🚫 = A feature we are losing
🗞️ = In the news

Here are this month’s topics:

• Copilot
• OneDrive
• Outlook
• PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• SharePoint
• Teams
• Viva
• Around Microsoft 365

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Copilot

🎬 Are you, or your colleagues, struggling to get the most out of Copilot? On The Inform Team’s webinar You switched on Microsoft 365 Copilot. Now what? I discuss and demo no-prompt, easy ways that Copilot can help you without typing a single prompt. Watch and share here.

🔜The Microsoft Copilot chat prompt box is getting a new ‘Tools’ feature

Microsoft is adding a new ‘Tools’ button to Copilot Chat to access task-specific AI capabilities. Due mid to late August 2025. Read more.

🔜 Chat will support new file types for grounding
Microsoft: “We’re expanding the file types supported in Copilot Chat to align with the Microsoft Search experience. This enhancement allows users to ground their questions in a broader range of content types, improving the relevance and accuracy of Copilot responses” and “Users will be able to ask Copilot questions about additional file types, including CAD, ZIP, and MP4. This update enhances Copilot’s ability to retrieve and reason over content from a wider variety of files, improving productivity and search flexibility”. There are no changes to the user experience.
References: MC1116511 and Roadmap ID 492268. Due late August to mid-September 2025.
Read more about File formats supported by Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Support.

🔜 Standard and Priority access to Copilot capabilities
Microsoft: “We’re excited to announce the change from fixed limits to capacity-based access for some capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Starting early August, Copilot Chat users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license get standard access to tools like image generation and file upload based on service capacity. The access could vary during the time of the day based on the available capacity. Users will be notified in-product if the service capacity is not available and the task in progress will not be interrupted. Microsoft 365 Copilot users are offered priority access to these tools”.
References: MC1117101. Due early to late August 2025.

🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot Search will soon be generally available.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Search is an AI-powered search experience in the M365 Copilot app.  It leverages the Graph and M365 Copilot connectors to index content across Microsoft 365 and third-party apps, providing personalised, context-aware answers. Due mid to late August 2025. Read more.

🔜 Copilot Chat now offers better Search Refinement on CIQ Menu File Tab
You will soon be able to use File Type Filters (to narrow results by document type) and People Refiners (to filter files by collaborators or owners) to apply search criteria to get to relevant files faster.
References: MC1108139 and 365 Roadmap ID 481136. Due by late July late August 2025.

🔜 Copilot Chat now offers meeting series selection on CIQ Menu
Microsoft is enhancing the meeting experience in Copilot Chat. You will be able to select both individual meeting instances and entire meeting series to include in your prompts to Copilot Chat. This will allow you to reference recurring discussions or decisions.
References: MC1108138 and 365 Roadmap ID 481137. Due by early late July 2025.

🔜 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Group files with instructions to guide and improve agent answers
Microsoft: “We are announcing the ability to group up to 500 files into a single knowledge source, where agents can narrow their scope of search when queried about relevant and related data in Copilot Studio” and “File groups enable makers to deliver more precise, context-aware answers by organizing related documents into a single knowledge source and using user-based variables to improve agent performance and reduce irrelevant responses”. Due 28th July 2025. Read more: Create file groups (preview) – Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn.

🔜 Real-time voice conversation with M365 Copilot

Real-time voice is coming to M365 Copilot Chat and M365 Copilot, offering a great alternative to typing-based interactions. Due from early August 2025. Read more.

🕔 M365 Copilot gets better file grounding refinement
The Files tab in the M365 Copilot prompt box is gaining ‘Type’ and ‘People’ filters to help you ground your prompt in content that matters to you. Now due early to mid-August 2025. Read more.

🕔 Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a new way to seamlessly access your most recently used SharePoint agents directly within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—no need to navigate back to the SharePoint site. This enhancement helps users stay focused and productive by reducing context switching”. See the above image from Microsoft.
References: MC1099692 and 365 Roadmap ID 482601. Now due mid-September 2025. View screenshot here.

🕔 Researcher is being added to Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “We’re expanding the capabilities of the Researcher Agent by integrating it into Copilot Notebooks. This enhancement allows users to conduct complex, multi-step research across enterprise data sources—without leaving the Notebook experience—using OpenAI’s deep researcher model with chain-of-thought reasoning”.
References: MC1099685 and 365 Roadmap ID: 493288. Now due late July to late August 2025.

🕔 Ground your M365 Copilot prompts in SharePoint and OneDrive
When writing Copilot prompts in the chat box, you will soon be able to point your prompts (ground) at specific SharePoint/OneDrive folders and SharePoint sites. Now due late July to late August 2025. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Search for and select Teams Chats in Context IQ to scope prompts
Microsoft: “With this new feature, users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in Context IQ (CIQ) to scope their prompts in BizChat.” and “Users will be able to ground their prompts in BizChat to the Teams Chats that they have access to. More details will be published for users here when this feature releases: Using Context IQ to refer to specific files, people, and more in Microsoft 365 Copilot“.
References: MC1060471 and 365 Roadmap ID 429646. Now due mid to late August 2025.

🔭 Audio Overview customisation in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Guide the content of an Audio Overview created for a Copilot Notebook through natural language input”.
Roadmap ID: 499150. Due August 2025.

🔭 Configurate format, style, and duration of Audio Overviews in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Users can guide Copilot on the format (podcast-style with dual voices or a single voice), style, and duration while generating an Audio Overview of their Copilot Notebook”.
Roadmap ID: 499151. Due August 2025.

🔭 Filtering Conversation History
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a chat history filtering capability that empowers users to tailor their view of past conversations. This feature enables users to scope their chat history to a more relevant, workflow-aligned view, helping them quickly surface the chats that matters most. This enhancement is designed to support better context recall.”.
Roadmap ID: 497910. Due August 2025.

🔭 Press and hold Win + C or Copilot key to activate voice on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “Press and hold Win + C keys, or the dedicated Copilot key for applicable devices, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will activate voice. With voice, talk to Copilot like a personal assistant – interrupting and redirecting at any time to prepare for the workday, create documents, understand topics, and search for information. This shortcut to activate voice means you don’t have to switch between screens to talk with Copilot. Enterprise-grade security and compliance are built in, so conversations stay private while productivity soars”.
Roadmap ID: 497849. Due September 2025.

🔭 Say “Hey Copilot” to activate voice conversations with the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows
Microsoft: “With the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows, say “Hey Copilot” to activate real-time voice conversations with Copilot. The wake word keeps you in flow, helping you draft content, analyze data, and get critical insights without having to navigate to a separate app or window. Built for enterprise, it respects your organization’s compliance and privacy settings, activating only when called”.
Roadmap ID: 497848. Due August 2025.

🔭 Expanded Input Box on Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Users will be able to expand the Input Box to a full screen view when they type long prompts with lengthy context or instructions. When users copy paste prompts from word editors the prompt box will maintain plain text formatting to sustain readability and review of the prompt”.
Roadmap ID: 496597. Due July 2025.

🔭 Increased efficiency with auto-generated Copilot Pages
Microsoft: “Copilot Chat can automatically create and open a Page side-by-side when it detects a relevant scenario, enabling instant editing, steering, and sharing”.
Roadmap ID: 497161. Due July 2025.

🔭 Lists in Context IQ
Microsoft: “Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Lists through the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat”.
Roadmap ID: 422308. Due August 2025.

🔭 Reference an Excel file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
Microsoft: “You can now reference an Excel file when you create a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint”.
Roadmap ID: 497539. Due August 2025.

🔭 Teams Channels in Context IQ
Microsoft: “Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat”.
Roadmap ID: 429645. Due August 2025.

🔍 View all Copilot updates.

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OneDrive

🔜 Updated order of Shortcut and Sync commands

Microsoft: “Users will see the “Add Shortcut to OneDrive” command appear before the “Sync” command in the command bar. This change is designed to encourage use of the shortcut feature while maintaining access to Sync. The command will also adopt a consistent name and icon across Microsoft 365 apps”.
References: MC1117105. Due late July to mid-August 2025.

🔭 M365 Copilot: Save an audio overview from Copilot Notebooks to OneDrive
Microsoft: “Save the audio overview that you have generated within a Copilot Notebook to OneDrive so you can download or share with others”.
Roadmap ID: 499152. Due September 2025.

🚫 On hold: OneDrive will soon get a new ‘Export as PDF’ feature

Update 24th July from Microsoft: “After further review, we are not able to roll this out at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience”. Read more.

🔍 View all OneDrive updates.

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Outlook

🔜 New Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline

Microsoft: ‘Users with offline mode enabled in the new Outlook for Windows will be able to attach files to draft emails while offline. These emails, including attachments, will be sent automatically once the device reconnects to the internet”.
References: MC1125491 and Roadmap ID 496371). Due mid to late October 2025.

🔜 Copilot chat to summarise emails for unlicensed users
Microsoft are introducing a new way to summarise email threads in Outlook using Copilot chat, for people with and without a Copilot licence. Due mid-August to mid-October 2025. Read more.

🔜 Updated: Trackable newsletters are coming to new Outlook and web

Newsletters in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web will allow you to create, distribute, and track internal email newsletters. Now due in mid-to-late August 2025. July update: New release date, now on by default, and a new end-user documentation link. Read more.

🔜 Summarise email attachments with Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows
Microsoft: “To help users work more efficiently, Microsoft is enhancing Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows. With this update, Copilot can now summarize not only the body of an email but also the content of attached PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files—directly within the reading pane. This improvement is designed to reduce context switching and help users quickly understand the full scope of an email without opening attachments”.
References: MC1112451 and 365 Roadmap ID 491020. Due mid-July to late August 2025.
Already available in new Outlook and web, details here: Use Copilot to summarise Outlook email attachments.

🕔 Users can set custom account descriptions in new Outlook

Microsoft: “Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: Outlook users will be able to set custom descriptions for their accounts, making it easier to identify their multiple accounts in the Outlook folder list as well as various lists and menus across Outlook”.
References: MC981635 and 365 Roadmap ID 470602. Now due late March to mid-September 2025.

🕔 The Copilot Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word
The Researcher agent (for complex, multi-step research across work and web data) will be available in Word. Now due 18th August to 1st September 2025. Read more.

🕔 Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Outlook
Microsoft: “Agents extend the capability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in exciting ways, letting users customize their Copilot experience. From Copilot in Outlook, the right-side panel will show agents that the user has previously installed or that their admin has previously deployed. The panel will also provide entry points to Get Copilot agents in the app store and to Create an agent”.
References: MC1020219 and 365 Roadmap ID: 481558. Now due early June to late July 2025.

🕔 Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot on Outlook mobile
Microsoft: “Copilot now makes it easier to schedule meetings directly from email conversations. With the new Schedule with Copilot option, Copilot analyzes the email thread and automatically creates a meeting invitation—pre-filling the title, agenda, and attaching the email thread. Attendees from the email are added to the invite, and you can quickly review, edit, and send”.
References: MC1090693 and 365 Roadmap ID 494154. Now due late July to late August 2025.

🕔 Offline Support for Calendar – Create, Edit and Delete Event support
Microsoft: “We’re expanding offline capabilities in the new Outlook for Windows. Users will soon be able to create, edit, and delete single calendar events even when not connected to the internet. This enhancement improves productivity and flexibility when working offline”.
References: MC1101906 and 365 Roadmap ID: 490059. Now due mid-August to mid-September 2025.
Related: Work offline in Outlook – Microsoft.

🕔 🔜 New Outlook for Windows and web: Jump to a message in the message list
You will soon be able to use a new “Type to jump” feature to navigate your message list based on how it is sorted. For example, if your messages are sorted by Date, you will type a date to jump directly to it; if sorted by From, you will type a sender’s name to jump to their messages; and if sorted by Category, you will type a category name to go straight there. When sorted by sender, you will click the arrow icon to reveal the Type to jump to a sender option, allowing you to enter a name and find relevant messages.
Refs: MC1066439 and 365 Roadmap ID 490058. Now due early May to lte July 2025.

🔭 List email attachments in M365 Copilot
Microsoft: “Users will be able to list the file attachments that they received or sent over email in M365 Copilot.”.
Roadmap ID: 497909. Due August 2025.

🔭 Copilot Proactive Drafts
Microsoft: “Copilot will detect emails that are most likely to need a response and pre-generate three options for you review and select from. Save time and energy responding to high priority emails with proactive drafts”.
Roadmap ID: 497671. Due September 2025.

🔭 Enterprise and Web Grounding for Draft with Copilot
Microsoft: “Draft with Copilot now has access to your enterprise data to help you craft high quality emails grounded in the right context. You will be able to review the sources used to generate your email draft before you send the mail”.
Roadmap ID: 497670. Due August 2025.

🔭 Expand and collapse folders when moving emails (new Outlook)
Microsoft: “Users can now expand and collapse folder trees in the move/copy email dialog. This makes it easier to navigate large folder structures and find the right destination faster, improving efficiency and control during email triage”.
Roadmap ID: 497418. Due October 2025.

🔭 Quick steps in the pop-out ribbon (new Outlook)
Microsoft: “Quick Steps are now integrated into the ribbon of email pop-out ribbon in the new Outlook for Windows and Web. Users can access and execute their configured Quick Steps directly while reading emails in separate windows”.
Roadmap ID: 497834. Due September 2025.

🔍 View all Outlook updates.

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PowerPoint, Word and Excel

🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhanced presentation creation quality

Microsoft: “We’re improving the presentation creation experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot. With this update, Copilot will generate presentations with greater depth in content, narrative flow, structure, and visual design—helping users create more compelling and professional presentations faster. Copilot will create a link to the presentation saved in your OneDrive for you to open and review. This enhancement builds on the existing “Create presentation” feature in Bizchat and interacts with Microsoft 365 services such as OneDrive and SharePoint”.
Reference: MC1125486. Due mid to late August 2025.

🔜 External workbook links to blocked file types will be disabled by default
Microsoft: “Starting October 2025, external workbook links to blocked file types will be disabled by default, showing a #BLOCKED error for new links and preventing refresh of existing ones. Administrators can revert this via registry or group policy settings”.
Referecence: MC1125497. Due early October 2025 to late July 2026. Read more: External Workbook Links to Blocked File Types Will Be Disabled by Default – Microsoft Support.

🔜 The Copilot Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word

The Researcher agent (for complex, multi-step research across work and web data) will be available in Word for Microsoft (1). Due mid-July to mid-August 2025. Read more.

🕔 Use Copilot in Word to ‘Fix all spelling & grammar’
Microsoft Word is getting a new Copilot feature: ‘Fix all spelling & grammar’. Now due mid-May 2025 to mid-August 2025. Read more.

🕔 Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation
Microsoft: “With this update, users can prompt Copilot to generate new content or reference a file to add topic-specific slides. The generated slides will automatically align with the design and formatting of the current presentation, reducing manual effort and ensuring a cohesive experience”.
References: MC1105016/MC1105015 and 365 Roadmap ID 496137/496136. Now due from late July 2025.

The above update from Microsoft is lacking details and visuals, but is still worth noting due to this part of the update: “The generated slides will automatically align with the design and formatting of the current presentation”. I bet a lot of us are looking forward to trying this!

🕔 Copilot in PowerPoint will soon be able to reference Excel files
Copilot in PowerPoint users will soon be able to create presentations based on Excel files. Now due mid-July to late August 2025. Read more.

🔭 M365 Copilot in Excel: Generate a formula with Copilot from the grid upon “=”
Microsoft: “Type ‘=’ anywhere on your grid or in the formula bar and let Copilot generate formulas from natural language, making complex calculations simpler and faster.”.
Roadmap ID: 496362. Due September 2025.

🔭 M365 Copilot in PowerPoint: Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page
Microsoft: “TGenerating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page”.
Roadmap ID: 499425. Due August 2025.

🔭 Auto-update document sections from new sources
Microsoft: “Easily refresh parts of your document using content from other files without copying and pasting. Copilot keeps your formatting intact while pulling in the latest updates from new sources.”.
Roadmap ID: 497937. Due August 2025.

🔭 Recent activity is part of Copilot’s dynamic document snapshot in Word
Microsoft: “Select the Activity tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a document for a summary of recent comments and changes. Choose a time window of 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks”.
Roadmap ID: 497940. Due August 2025.

🔭 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content suggestions in Word
Microsoft: “Select the Suggestions tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a Word document for suggestions on improving the content of the document”.
Roadmap ID: 495828. Due July 2025.

🔭 Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide
Microsoft: “Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images”.
Roadmap ID: 496366 web, 496366 Windows, 496367 Mac. Due August 2025.

🔭 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Document snapshot in Word personalises output
Microsoft: “The document snapshot helps the user focus faster by surfacing the most important information for them based on their personal context”.
Roadmap ID: 497297. Due September 2025.

🔭 Improved Python-powered answers in Copilot in Excel
Microsoft: “Copilot in Excel now provides improved direct answers to your data analysis questions, using Python”.
Roadmap ID: 490212. Due August 2025.

🔭 Reference a PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint
Microsoft: “You can now reference a PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint”.
Roadmap ID: 497540. Due August 2025.

🚫 PowerPoint: Deprecation of Reuse Slides Button in Ribbon
Microsoft is retiring the Reuse Slide feature from the PowerPoint Ribbon. Microsoft suggest you continue to reuse content by copying and pasting slides between presentations or duplicating existing presentations.
Reference: MC1111178. Due by 31st July 2025.

🔍 View all PowerPoint, Word or Excel updates.

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SharePoint

🔜 Sharing video on SharePoint pages has been updated

SharePoint has a new process for adding videos to pages, ensuring your audience has permission to view them. Due mid-July to early August 2025. Read more.

🕔 Page Analytics in SharePoint is getting some great updates, but there’s a catch
Page Analytics in SharePoint is getting new Page Analytics updates for some users. Now due mid-August to mid-September 2025. Read more.

🕔 SharePoint is getting header and footer enhancements
Microsoft SharePoint is getting updated site headers and footers. Now due late August to early September 2025. Read more.

🕔 New SharePoint web part for FAQs, powered by M365 Copilot
A new web part for FAQs will curate FAQ content by working with your grounding information. By selecting one or more grounding source files, Copilot will generate the FAQ content, thereby reducing the time and effort required for creating FAQs. Now due mid to late July 2025. Read more.

🔭 Sections with Copilot
Microsoft: “Sections with Copilot is a new SharePoint authoring tool that allows users to create full-fidelity SharePoint sections with just a prompt. It works by first looking at the context of your page to offer prompt suggestions for what content you need next to offer a starting point. Next, you either select one of those starting points or write your own and optionally ground in a relevant file”.
Roadmap ID: 498547. Due August 2025.

🗞️ In the news: Microsoft says China behind hack
“Chinese hackers are behind recent breaches of Microsoft’s SharePoint software, says the tech giant”. Read more on LinkedIn.

🔍 View all SharePoint updates.

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Teams

🔜 Microsoft Teams is introducing a redesigned Workflows experience

This new version of Workflows in Teams aims to deliver a faster, more intuitive, and streamlined interface. Due from October 2025. Read more.

🔜 New filters and sorting for Teams meeting attendance reports
Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams attendance reports will gain new filters to set minimum attendee counts (1) and enhanced sorting by date and time (2), improving report efficiency” and “At the time of release, this enhancement will be available on Windows and macOS only. Once released, it will be immediately available to all tenants, including for existing meetings and events. There will be no option to revert to a previous version”.
Reference: MC1122161. Due 31^st August  2025.

🔜 Intelligent Recap in Teams to include supporting screenshots

Microsoft Teams’ intelligent meeting recap will soon include shared-screen content for richer, more visual summaries. Due mid to late-September 2025.

🔜 A new Teams meeting ‘join bar’ will remind you that your meeting has started

Microsoft is introducing a new meeting ‘join bar’ to help you access meetings you’ve RSVP’d as “Yes” or “Tentative”. Due mid to late July 2025. Read more.

🔜 Customise your Microsoft Teams experience with new accent colours

You will soon be able to customise your Teams experience by choosing an accent colour for the Teams shell, and your choice will show up across Teams. This change is cosmetic and does not impact functionality or performance. Now due early to late September 2025. Read more.

🔜 New option to pin the Teams app bar

Microsoft is tweaking the Teams user interface and adding a “hamburger (≡) context menu” in the top left corner (2) with the option to “Keep app bar visible for most window sizes” (1). Due late July 2025. Read more.

🔜 A new compact notification size for Microsoft Teams

Make Microsoft Teams notifications less intrusive with the new ‘Compact’ size option. Due late July 2025. Read more.

🕔 Meeting Audio Overview will create a summary of multiple Teams meetings
Microsoft is introducing a new feature called Meeting Audio Overview, which summarises key topics from multiple meetings into audio summaries. Now due mid to late September 2025. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft Copilot: File summary in Microsoft Teams chat
Microsoft: “Users will be able to summarize files with Summarize for me using Microsoft Copilot within one-on-one or group Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will work on common file types like Word and PDF initially, and other file formats will be added over time. This summarization respects the file’s security policies, ensuring that only users with access to the file receive a summary, which will carry the same sensitivity label as the original file. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature”.
References: MC1003344 and 365 Roadmap ID 418564. Now due mid-August to early September 2025.

🕔 Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessions
Microsoft: “After the rollout, meeting participants who are not sharing their screens will have the ability to request an annotation session. This request will be sent to the presenter sharing their screen who can choose to accept or deny it”.
References: MC1019312 and 365 Roadmap ID 89975. Now due in mid-to-late September 2025.

🕔 Create and add custom dictionaries for Microsoft Teams
Admins will soon be able to upload custom dictionaries for Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts, enhancing transcript accuracy for tenant-specific terms. Now due mid to late July 2025. Read more.

🕔 Copilot Interpreter agent for Teams meetings
The Copilot Interpreter agent allows each Teams meeting attendee to speak and listen in the language of their choice. Targeted Release now due early June to late July 2025. Read more.

🕔 Teams is getting a Network Strength Indicator
Microsoft: “This feature will display your current network quality using a simple 3-bar system: Good (3 bars), Poor (2 bars), and Bad (1 bar). When your connection is limited, we’ll suggest actions to help conserve bandwidth and maintain meeting performance. You’ll also be able to see when other participants are experiencing poor or bad network conditions, providing better context for disruptions in the meeting”.
References: MC1077865 and 365 Roadmap ID 414513. Now due late October to mid-November 2025.

🕔 Live chat for small businesses
Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams is introducing a Live chat feature for small businesses to engage customers directly on their websites. It will be available in Microsoft 365 Business plans and configurable via the Teams Admin app”.
Ref: MC974364. Already live in the U.S. Now due globally from mid-April to late September 2025. Related: Set up Live chat in Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn.

🕔 Third-party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support
Microsoft: “Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts from third-party chat and meeting applications can use those same shortcuts in Microsoft Teams. To enable this, go to the Settings and more button in the upper right, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog, and select a communication or meeting layout. This allows users to apply the shortcuts they are used to from other applications”.
References: MC992216 and 365 Roadmap ID 472913. Now due late July to early August 2025.

🔭 Search for meetings
Microsoft: “You can now search by meeting name or participant, take direct actions like joining, RSVPing, or viewing recaps, and access a dedicated Meetings tab for a streamlined experience. These updates make it easier to find and act on meetings right from the search bar”.
Roadmap ID: 498496. Due August 2025.

🔭 Share meeting recap to SharePoint
Microsoft: “Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details”.
Roadmap ID: 498494. Due August 2025.

🔭 Edit and manage Teams Town Hall instances in Outlook
Microsoft: “Organizers and co-organizers can now easily edit the details of Teams Town Hall instances. A direct link to the Teams Town Hall edit page is now accessible from Outlook calendar. This enhancement brings the same seamless editing and registration management experience already available in webinar, bringing a consistent experience across all event types”.
Roadmap ID: 496986. Due August 2025.

🔭 SQL-like commands in the search bar
Microsoft: “Efficiently narrow down your search results by using SQL-like commands in the search bar. Users can quickly filter messages, files, or conversations with precise queries such as from:username, with:username or in:channel”.
Roadmap ID: 496590. Due August 2025

🔭 Theme accent colours
Microsoft: “Make Teams feel more like your own with new customization options. Customize Teams colors by choosing your favorite theme accent colours, just like you can in Outlook”.
Roadmap ID: 497139. Due August 2025.

🔍 View all Teams updates.

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Viva

🔜 Microsoft Viva Engage | Email sender domain migration from @yammer.com to @engage.mail.microsoft
Microsoft: “As part of the final phase of the Viva Engage rebranding, we’re updating the email sender domains used for Viva Engage communications. This change ensures a consistent and secure brand experience across all surfaces and completes the transition from Yammer to Viva Engage”.
References: MC1117814. Due late August to late October 2025.

🔜 Microsoft Viva Insights: People Skills insights for analysts

Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Insights: The Skills landscape report, a new Microsoft Power BI report in the advanced insights app that introduces the skills landscape in your organization, powered by People Skills data. With this report, analysts and leaders can understand People Skills data and its usage in the organization, browse commonly used skills and areas of skills specialization, see how groups of skills are distributed across your groups, and explore the skills hierarchy”.
References: MC1075900 and 365 Roadmap ID 491022. Now due early August to early September 2025.
Read more: Skills landscape report | Microsoft Learn.

🔭 Customise visuals and pages in embedded PowerBI reports
Microsoft: “Analysts can now use embedded PowerBI edit tools to customize their reports to add visuals, pages and change themes, text and more, and then publish it to their organization”.
Roadmap ID: 494688. Due August 2025.

🔭 News AI audio briefing
Microsoft: “This feature provides an AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. It plays the 10 audio clips sequentially to help users catch up on top news in a hands free manner. This experience will be available in the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop and in the Viva Connections experience in the browser (Accessed from the main Viva home portal – viva.cloud.microsoft)”.
Roadmap ID: 497142. Due August 2025.

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Around Microsoft 365

🔜 Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat entry point in Microsoft Edge for Business
You will soon have two new ways to engage with M365 Copilot within Microsoft Edge for Business:

• Context Menu Access. You will be able to right-click on any webpage and select the Copilot option. This will allow you to generate a summary of the open page. The response will appear in the side pane, giving you quick, contextual insights without leaving your current view.
• Find on Page Integration. When you type into the “Find on Page” input box, you will have the option to trigger Copilot. Based on the text you enter, Copilot will generate a relevant response, which will also be displayed in the side pane.

References: MC1108131 and 365 Roadmap IDs: 491473 & 489222. Due by late July 2025.

🕔 Grid view for tasks in Microsoft To Do web version and To Do inside Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft: “In Microsoft 365 apps for the web, users can see their tasks in a grid view and can update details inline in To Do on web and To Do app inside Microsoft Outlook”. Refs: MC714520 and Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 381749. Now due late April 2024 to early August 2025 (no, that is not a typo!).

🕔 Microsoft Copilot in Edge: New contextual features on Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat “Work” tab
Microsoft: “Microsoft Copilot in Edge will introduce support for page summarization and contextual queries to the Work tab for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat. With this feature, users can ask Copilot contextual queries such as “summarize this page.” This feature will also include contextual prompt suggestions to help users ask relevant questions about open pages in Edge. Page summarization and contextual prompt suggestions will be accessible for users when using Copilot through the Edge side pane”.
References: MC966641 and 365 Roadmap ID 468884. Now due mid-March to early August 2025. Learn more about the differences between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft Learn).

🕔 Copilot Chat is coming to M365 apps for users without a Copilot licence
Copilot Chat will soon be available as a side-by-side experience in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for users without a Copilot licence. Due late June to September. Read more.

🔭 Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Clipchamp video start page
Microsoft: “The Clipchamp start page new unified hub is a revamped video hub start page experience of a single video destination for creation, discovery & consumption”.
Roadmap ID: 498229. Due August 2025.

🔭 Microsoft Edge: Summarisation, Translation, and Citation will soon be supported by Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in our menus
Microsoft: “Menus in Edge where the user has highlighted content in the browser will soon support a summarization, translation, and citation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat”.
Roadmap ID: 497135. Due August 2025.

🚫 Status Report with Project Manager Agent in Planner
Updated 28th July 2025: Microsoft:  “After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience”.
Microsoft: “A new feature in the Project Manager agent that automates the creation of status reports for your plans. This capability streamlines the process to generate, view, modify, and share status reports based on project progress. The concise, accurate, and professional report is summarized 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”.
References: MC1060865 and 365 Roadmap ID 474452. Due date has been changed to “We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed”.


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