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

Welcome to our ninth roundup of 2025. We review what was announced, released, and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in September.

Check out the August blog for lots of content still rolling out this month. If you are an Update Insiders member, take a sneak peek at the latest blog, which is updated 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
• Forms
• Lists
• OneDrive
• Outlook
• PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• SharePoint
• Teams
• Viva
• Around Microsoft 365

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Copilot

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✅ Anthropic models now available in M365 Copilot Researcher and Copilot Studio

M365 Copilot Researcher and Copilot Studio offer Anthropic models for organisations that opt in. Due from 24^th September 2025. Read more.

✅ Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps
This is interesting because it creates a service level sort of in between Copilot Chat (free) and M365 Copilot (paid). This in-between place is the free version of Copilot being able to access the content open in the app in which you have opened Copilot chat, but not beyond the open document.

This new update means that Copilot Chat (free) is now “content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you’re working on”.  For M365 Copilot (paid) users, Copilot continues “reasoning over not just the file or email you have open, but all of your work data”. Available now. Read more: Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps | Microsoft Community Hub.

✅ The Skills agent is now available in ‘Frontier’
The Skills agent helps individuals and leaders discover people with specific skills from across your organisation. Arrived mid-September 2025 in the Frontier program. Read more.

🔜 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Automate approvals decisions with Intelligent Approvals
Microsoft: “With this feature, makers will not need to route every approval to a human. Instead, they configure an AI stage where a large language model evaluates the request using natural language prompts and contextual variables, such as text, documents, and images. The AI uses the defined logic to decide whether to approve or reject the request. Makers keep full control and decide if approvals are automatic or if humans can veto them”.
Reference: MC1162218. Due 28th October 2025. Read more: Automate approvals decisions with Intelligent Approvals | Microsoft Learn.

🔜 Copilot Studio – Analyse business impact of Copilot Studio agents in Viva Insights advanced insights
Microsoft: “Insights Analysts will receive an aggregated business impact report for all their published custom copilot agents in Viva Insights. This will allow users to drill down to specific agent level reports to understand usage and value of each agent. The Copilot Studio agent report in Viva Insights Advanced Insights feature is enabled by default in Copilot Studio. Environment admins can disable it from the Power Platform Admin center”.
Reference: MC1127831. Due 15th October 2025.

🔜 ‘Update available’ button for the M365 Copilot app on Windows

Microsoft 365 Copilot for Windows will introduce a new “Update available” button that will appear in the bottom left of the app interface, allowing you to continue interacting with the app when it appears. Microsoft is hoping to encourage you to keep the app up to date without interrupting your workflow. This is for the app installed on Windows, not the browser app. Due early to late October 2025.
Reference: MC1154790. Due early to late October 2025.

🔜 Microsoft Copilot Studio – Build multistage approvals
With multistage approvals, you will be able to create approval workflows that match your organisation’s structure and processes. You can set up multiple approval stages, each with its own stakeholders, and add conditions between stages so approvals can be automatically approved, rejected, moved, or skipped based on specific criteria.
Reference: MC1153440. Due 15th October 2025. Read more: Build advanced approvals | Microsoft Learn.

🔜 The M365 Copilot Researcher agent gets new output controls

Microsoft is introducing new output control features in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher agent. Read more.

🔜 Microsoft 365 Copilot ‘Pages’ section to be replaced by a new Library experience

The Copilot ‘Pages’ section is to be replaced by ‘Library’. The new section will display pages and Copilot-generated images. Due late September 2025. Read more.

🔜 M365 Copilot rewrite is coming to editable text in Edge

M365 Copilot users will soon be able to use Rewrite to draft and rephrase editable text within the Edge browser. Due late September 2025. Read more.

🔜 Flow Builder now included in Copilot license

Microsoft: ” Flow Builder is a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent that enables users to create automation flows using natural language. Based on customer feedback, Flow Builder is now fully included in the $30 Microsoft 365 Copilot license for employee-facing scenarios—no separate license or add-on is required”.
Reference: MC1162293. Arrived 29th September 2025. Read more: FAQ for Flow Builder | Microsoft Learn.

🕔 Microsoft 365 Copilot: Try the new Surveys Agent
Surveys is a new Copilot agent in Microsoft 365 that will help you easily build, run, and analyse surveys through chat. Surveys are powered by MS Forms and adhere to existing admin policies for the Forms service. Now due mid-October to late November 2025. Read more.

🕔 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”.
Reference: MC1117101. Now due early August to late October 2025.

🕔 The M365 Copilot Researcher agent gets new output controls
Microsoft is introducing new output control features in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher agent. Now due late September to late October 2025. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft Copilot Chat adds a new ‘Tools’ feature for task-specific AI access
Microsoft is adding a new ‘Tools’ button to Copilot Chat to access task-specific AI capabilities. Now due late September to mid-October 2025. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft 365 Copilot ‘Pages’ section to be replaced by a new Library experience
The Copilot ‘Pages’ section is to be replaced by ‘Library’. The new section will display pages and Copilot-generated images. Now due mid-October 2025. Read more.

🕔 Copilot Pages: New file extension and file icon for Copilot pages
Microsoft: “A new .page file extension for Microsoft Copilot Pages. This new file extension will continue to support admin toggles, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, multi-geo storage, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, version history, export, audit logs, and data subject requests. The functionality and support for the .page file extension will be identical to the existing .loop file extension. The only difference is the file extension name and file icon”.
References: MC1085134 and 365 Roadmap ID 494834. Now mid-August to late September 2025.

🕔 Content Sources in Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a new capability that allows users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to scope and control Copilot Chat responses by selecting specific content sources. This enhancement is designed to improve the relevance and accuracy of Copilot responses by limiting them to user-selected sources, aligning with customer feedback for more transparent and customizable AI interactions”.
References: MC1127230 and 365 Roadmap ID 496596. Now due late October to late November 2025.
Note: screenshots to follow.

🕔 The Copilot Researcher agent gets source controls
Microsoft 365 Copilot license holders will be able to access source controls for the Researcher agent. Now due late September to late October 2025. Read more.

🕔 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. Now due by late September 2025.

🕔 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 early September to late October 2025.

🕔 Microsoft Copilot Chat adds new ‘Tools’ feature for task-specific AI access
Microsoft is adding a new ‘Tools’ button to Copilot Chat to access task-specific AI capabilities. Now mid to late September 2025. Read more.

🔭 Sharing Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “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”.
Roadmap ID: 506851. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Replace stock video footage with AI-Generated Images in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft: “Easily swap stock visuals for AI-generated images in your videos using the Create experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Powered by OpenAI’s latest image generation model, this feature helps you tailor content, explain concepts more clearly, and help make your videos stand out”.
Roadmap ID: 501570. Platforms: Desktop, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.

🔭 Search for meetings organized by a specific person
Microsoft: “This feature allows users to search for and find meetings using Copilot Chat that were organized by a specific person to make it easier to review and manage their calendar”.
Roadmap ID: 503859. Platforms: Desktop. Due November 2025.

🔭 Calendar search for email delegates
Microsoft: “Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes”.
Roadmap ID: 413718. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.

🔭 Edit your Copilot-generated PowerPoint presentation outline via Pages in Chat
Microsoft: “You can now edit and collaborate on the presentation outline generated by Copilot in a Page before the PowerPoint deck is created”.
Roadmap ID: 501785. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Generate icons using AI in Copilot Studio lite
Microsoft: “A picture is worth a thousand words. Before, Copilot Studio agent builders would need to use the default icon or manually upload their own image. This process meant browsing the web for an image, asking different teams for icons, or manually drawing one. Users can now use AI to describe how the icon should look like, thus helping inform end users of the agent’s function more easily, with more expression. Users can now generate icons using AI in the lite version of Copilot Studio in M365. Users can enter custom prompts or use the description of the agent to generate the icon. Alternatively, users can manually upload their own icon or select from a set of pre-created icons. Icons are capped at 1 MB (192px)”.
Roadmap ID: 502864. Platforms: Desktop, Teams and Surface Devices, Web. Due November 2025.

🔭 GPT-5 in Copilot Studio (embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot experience)
Microsoft: “Create GPT-5-powered agents using Copilot Studio (lite), the embedded agent-building experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot”.
Roadmap ID: 502552. Platforms: Android, Desktop, Developer, iOS, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.

🔭 Knowledge Agent
Microsoft: “Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers”.
Roadmap ID: 501451. Platforms: Web. Due January 2026.

🔭 Library in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
Microsoft: “Library is a central, visual-first space in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app where users can easily access their Copilot-generated content like images and pages – as well as Copilot-generated content shared with them”.
Roadmap ID: 501783. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Live subtitles on voice chat in Copilot when using the quick composer
Microsoft: “Live subtitles for voice chats in Copilot will be available for users to help them follow the conversation when using the quick composer”.
Roadmap ID: 502858. Platforms: Desktop. Due October 2025.

🔭 Meetings search using categories added in Outlook
Microsoft: “This unblocks customers from searching for meetings specifying the categories they have added in Outlook”.
Roadmap ID: 413720. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Overview in Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft: “Quickly grasp the key topics, summaries, and insights from your Copilot Notebooks – without having to dig through every document or detail”.
Roadmap ID: 503757. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS. Due October 2025.

🔭 Updates to Memory and Personalization in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft: “Copilot now uses chat history to provide more relevant, contextual responses. Updated settings make it easier to view and manage what Copilot remembers and your personalization preferences”.
Roadmap ID: 503955. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Viva Engage – Agents in communities
Microsoft: “Agents in Viva Engage communities supports communities by answering questions, facilitating knowledge sharing, citing sources, and scaling expertise.”.
Roadmap ID: 499898. Platforms: Web. Due January 2026.

🔭 Image effects in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft: “We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you’re using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out”.
Roadmap ID: 502844. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due September 2025.

🔭 Show more results in M365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft: “Users can ask for additional search results during a multi-turn conversation by saying things like “show me more.” Copilot continues from where it left off, pulling in remaining relevant results to maintain context and improve accuracy”.
Roadmap ID: 501576. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Teams, Surface Devices, and Web. Due October 2025.

🔭 Updates to video creation in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft: “Quickly generate videos from a prompt, PowerPoint, PDF, or Word document with Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—now with transcript-based editing, custom media from OneDrive, natural voiceovers, brand color integration, and a redesigned scene structure for faster, more professional storytelling”.
Roadmap ID: 501560. Platform: Desktop, Mac, Web. Due September 2025.

🔍 View all Copilot updates.

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OneDrive

🔍 View all OneDrive updates.

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Outlook

✅ Delegate mailbox access for emails in M365 Copilot

Microsoft: “This update enables users with delegate access to use M365 Copilot to reason over emails in those mailboxes, improving productivity and collaboration in shared scenarios”.
References: MC1162968 and 365 Roadmap ID 416062. Available late September 2025. Read more: Use Copilot in shared mailboxes and delegate mailboxes – Microsoft Support.

✅ Users with shared mailbox access can use Copilot for email

Microsoft: “Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will now allow users with access to shared mailboxes to ground their conversations in the content of those mailboxes”.
References: MC1162967 and 365 Roadmap ID 488797. Available late September 2025. Read more: Use Copilot in shared mailboxes and delegate mailboxes – Microsoft Support.

🔜 Save an event as a draft in Outlook on mobile
When creating a meeting with at least one attendee, you will be able to save the event as a draft by selecting the Discard button while composing and then choosing Save as a draft. Draft events will appear on your calendar with a “Draft” prefix in the title.
Reference: MC1125489 due July to mid-October 2025.

🔜 Update to: New way to include email in Copilot chat prompts
Microsoft “Access to emails by typing ‘/’ in the prompt box will only be available when using Copilot Chat in Outlook. This applies to both the full app and side pane experience”. Read more.

🕔 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. Now due mid-December 2025 to early January 2026.

🕔 Better Outlook searches with Copilot and Immersive Search
Microsoft is introducing Immersive Search to Outlook, which includes an entry point to the Copilot side pane, presenting an AI-generated summary based on your query. Now due late September to late October 2025. Read more.

🕔 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.

🕔 Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web
Microsoft: “In new Outlook for Windows and web, when single-clicking on an empty time slot on the calendar surface, the quick compose pop-up will no longer appear. Instead, you will be able to create an appointment by typing directly in the time slot on the calendar grid, just as you can in classic Outlook for Windows. There will be no change to double-click behavior; the full compose form will still open as it does today”. Refs: MC846387 and 365 Roadmap ID 406948. Now due early to late November 2025.

🔭 Calendar mini-month date selection updates
Microsoft: “Users can now perform the following actions on the mini-calendar in the #newoutlookforwindows, allowing them to view custom date selections on their calendar. Click and drag to select multiple weeks at a time. Using Shift+click or CTRL+click will select non-consecutive dates. Moving months via the arrow icons in the mini-month will also update the main calendar surface”.
Roadmap ID: 502562. Platforms: Web. Due December 2025.

🔭 Summarise email with Copilot chat in Outlook
Microsoft: “Easily summarize your email and attachments with Copilot chat in a single click. This will be available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license who have pinning enabled. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows”.
Roadmap ID: 503316. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due October 2025.

🚫 Retirement of Outlook Lite app
Microsoft “The Outlook Lite app will be retired starting October 6th, 2025. After this date, new installations will be blocked. Existing users can continue using the app for a limited time before full retirement. The Outlook Lite app is being retired so we can focus our investments on the Outlook Mobile app, our flagship Android experience, which provides better functionality and user experience. We recommend transitioning to the Outlook Mobile app, where ongoing development and support will continue”.
Reference: MC1148534. Retirement date: From 6th October 2025.

🔍 View all Outlook updates.

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PowerPoint, Word and Excel

🔜 New “Open in Word” action button in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft will introduce an Open in Word button in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, letting you transfer Copilot responses directly into Word for editing or collaboration. If you have a Copilot licence, you will see this feature by default.
Reference: MC1143298. Due late September to early October 2025.

🕔 Audio overviews for files

Microsoft: “Users can now listen to podcast-style audio overviews of PDFs, Word documents, and Notebooks—making it easier to consume content on the go. These overviews feature two-host narration and can be customized on the Create experience, including options for length, speaker voices, and more”.
Reference: MC1130396. Now due late September to mid-October 2025.

🕔 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-August to mid-September 2025.

🕔 Use Microsoft Copilot in Word to create, edit, and transform content directly from chat
Microsoft: “We’re introducing new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word that enhance how users interact with Copilot to create and refine content. These updates are designed to streamline document creation and editing through a more conversational and iterative experience” and “Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be able to use Copilot in Word to draft new documents or sections, reorganize content into formats like FAQs, update existing content, or rewrite sections. Users will maintain control on the content as they will be able to review and approve any changes”.
References: MC1129126 and 365 roadmap ID 499428. Now due October to November 2025. Read more: Agent Mode in Word – Microsoft Support and Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog and watch here: Agent Mode in Word: Edit and Format a Word Document with Copilot.

🔍 View all PowerPoint, Word or Excel updates.

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SharePoint

🔜 Knowledge Agent (preview): AI-powered content optimisation for SharePoint and Copilot
Microsoft is rolling out a new built-in feature for SharePoint called Knowledge Agent (preview), designed to help organisations prep their content for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It works behind the scenes to enrich pages with metadata, summarise content, and organise it into a structured format that Copilot can easily understand. This means better answers, faster insights, and less manual tagging for admins and content creators. If you manage SharePoint sites or create content for your organisation, this update is for you. It’s ‘preview’ only for now, but it will eventually help towards making your SharePoint content Copilot-ready.
Reference: MC1155312. Due (Public Preview) mid-September 2025 to late February 2026. Read more: Get started with Knowledge Agent (preview) – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn.

🔭 Metadata understanding in SharePoint agents
Microsoft: “This update will allow agents grounded in SharePoint library contents to use and reason over available metadata to better distinguish between similar documents and provide higher-quality answers”.
Roadmap ID: 502516. Platform: SharePoint. Due September 2025.

🕔 New SharePoint Page Analytics features for Viva licence holders
Page Analytics in SharePoint is getting new Page Analytics updates for some users. Now due late September to late October 2025. Read more.

🔍 View all SharePoint updates.

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Teams

✅ ICYMI: Update your regional settings in Teams

Microsoft has introduced the Regional Settings Separation feature in Teams, letting you customise the Teams interface language, date, and time formats independently of your operating system. You access these settings via Settings > General > Language and regional formats in the Teams Desktop Client for Windows and Mac. By default, Teams follows your system settings unless you choose to override them, with no changes made unless you act. Arrived August 2025.
References: MC1129712 and 365 Roadmap ID 498895.

🔜 Pop-out meeting window on iPad
Microsoft: “To support multitasking during meetings, Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability for users on iPad to pop out their meeting window into a separate Teams window. This enhancement aligns with customer feedback requesting more flexible meeting experiences on mobile devices”.
References: MC1160191 and 365 Roadmap ID 503109. Due early to mid-October 2025.

🔜 Microsoft Teams to get a channel ‘AI helper’ agent

Channel Agent is an AI-powered assistant for Teams channels.  It summarises conversations, drafts status reports, assigns tasks, and answers questions. Public Preview will roll out from mid-September to mid-October 2025. Read more.

🔜 Customise the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see” (Teams Premium)
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams, the new Manage what attendees see feature will let you deliver more engaging and professional town hall events with custom layouts, backgrounds, theme colours, and name tags. Available only to organisers with a Teams Premium licence, this feature will support both On and On with preview options, and will be enabled automatically when selected.
References: MC1152321 and 365 Roadmap ID 491633. Due late October to early November 2025.

🔜 Microsoft Teams AI workflows combine Copilot and automation for end users

Imagine creating a scheduled Copilot prompt and having some automation applied to the output, such as sharing it in a Teams post or sending it to you in an email. In simple terms, that’s the new AI workflows. Due mid to late October 2025. Read more.

🔜 Teams group chats get a new Notes tab

Microsoft Teams group chats will soon have a new Teams Collaborative Notes tab. Due late September to early October 2025. Read more.

🔜 Enhanced privacy and improved stability for live captions and transcript
To enhance privacy and meeting reliability, Microsoft will update live captions and real-time text (RTT) in your Teams meetings. Captions will show only the last five minutes of dialogue when transcription is off, and the full conversation when it’s on. Caption repositioning will no longer cause text loss, and RTT will benefit from the same improvements.
References: MC1146824 and 365 Roadmap ID 499616.

🕔 Save chats and channel messages for later
Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to save a message (post, reply, or chat) and access it later from the Saved view in your Chat or Teams list. Now due late August to late October 2025. Read more.

🕔 The files tab in Microsoft Teams channels gets renamed and gains new capabilities
The ‘Files’ tab in Microsoft Teams channels will be renamed ‘Shared’ and will show shared post content and document library files under two tabs. Now due mid to late November 2025. Read more.

🕔 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 mid to late December 2025.

🕔 Microsoft Teams private channels: bigger limits & new features.
18th September update. Microsoft: “We have updated the timing and content below with additional information”. 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 early to mid-December 2025.

🕔 Previewing Microsoft Teams town halls as an attendee: New organiser and presenter feature
Organisers, co-organisers, and presenters in Microsoft Teams town halls will soon be able to join and view the event as an attendee. Now due late June to late October 2025. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft Teams Webinar and Townhall co-organisers can make more changes
Co-organisers will soon gain the ability to publish and cancel the event, edit event details like title, date/time, description, and edit event details. Now due March 2026. Read more.

🕔 Copilot without transcription becomes default for meetings – conversation history now persists

Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams Copilot will default to running without transcription for new meetings starting mid-September 2025, with conversation history now persisting during meetings. Transcription must be manually enabled for post-meeting insights. Custom policies remain unchanged, and admins can control settings via Teams meeting policies”.
References: MC1139493 and 365 Roadmap ID 478611. Due early to mid-November 2025. Read more about using Copilot without recording a Teams meeting – Microsoft Support.

🕔 New meeting search in Teams desktop
Microsoft will upgrade Teams desktop search to let you quickly find meetings by title or participant, then join, RSVP, view recaps, or access chats—all from the search bar results. A new “Meeting” pill and tab will focus your search. Now due mid-August to late September 2025. Read more.

🕔 Town halls: Preview changes before making them visible to attendees with “Manage what attendees see”
Microsoft: “Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new Manage what attendees see feature will help organizers and presenters deliver polished town hall events by simplifying the attendee view and keeping the focus on participants brought on screen. The new feature allows assigned organizers and presenters to preview changes before applying them all at once”.
References: MC1058259 and 365 Roadmap ID 487431. Now due late July to late September 2025. Related: Manage what attendees see in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Support.

🔭 Forwarded Messages Links
Microsoft: “When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation”.
Roadmap ID: 503099. Platforms: Desktop, Mac. Due October 2025.

🔭 Apps in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft: “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”.
Roadmap ID: 505791. Platforms: Desktop, Mac. Due October 2025.

🔭 Emojis in Section Names
Microsoft: “Choose an emoji to accompany section names in your chats and channels list”.
Roadmap ID: 503300. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac. Due November 2025.

🔭 Enhanced Copilot chat summary
Microsoft: “Missed many messages? Copilot will automatically generate a summary of the new messages in a chat conversation, so you can catch up quickly without reading every message”.
Roadmap ID: 501201. Platforms: Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web. Due November 2025.

🔭 Facilitator can help manage tasks and create documents
Microsoft: “Facilitator can help users manage tasks and create documents during meetings. In addition to the tasks that the agent is automatically capturing during the meeting, users can ask Facilitator directly through the meeting chat to create, edit, and assign tasks, which sync to Planner. For tasks related to document creation, users can assign to Facilitator and it will draft the document based on the meeting discussion. Users can also ask the agent to create a draft document on a topic discussed in the meeting”.
Roadmap ID: 500701. Platforms: Desktop. Due September 2025.

🔭 iPad Multi-tasking for Meetings
Microsoft: “Teams on iPad will now support a separate popout window for meetings, enhancing multi-tasking capabilities”.
Roadmap ID: 503109. Platforms: iOS. Due October 2025.

🔭 Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via macOS native experience
Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that enables Mac users to share their screen or specific windows using the built-in native macOS sharing experience. This is Mac only, user opt-in experience”.
Roadmap ID: 502523. Platforms: Mac. Due November 2025.

🚫 On hold: Interactive agents for Microsoft Teams meetings and calls
17th September 2025 update from Microsoft: “After further review, this has been delayed to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience”. Read more.

🔍 View all Teams updates.

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Viva

🔜 Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections
Microsoft: “We’re introducing a new feature that enables AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections. This feature provides users with a hands-free way to catch up on top news items using playback controls such as play, pause, skip, and speed adjustment”.
References: MC1143997 and 365 Roadmap ID 497142. Now due late August to late September 2025. Read more: The News Reader in Viva Connections | Microsoft Learn.

🕔 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 late September to late October 2025. Read more: Skills landscape report | Microsoft Learn.

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Around Microsoft 365

🔜 Microsoft 365 companion apps: a suite designed to enhance productivity
Microsoft: “Starting in late October 2025, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 companion apps—People, Files, and Calendar—on Windows 11 devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop client apps. These taskbar-integrated apps are designed to streamline everyday workflows, helping users stay focused, reduce context switching, and complete tasks faster”.
References: MC1160180 and 365 Roadmap ID 486856. Due late October to late December 2025. Read more: Get started with Microsoft 365 companions – Microsoft Support and Microsoft 365 companions apps overview – Microsoft 365 Apps | Microsoft Learn. Screenshots: People, Files, and Calendar.

🔜 Power Automate – Quantify time and money savings delivered by automations
Microsoft: “This feature provides a way to calculate how much time and money a cloud flow is saving to your organization. You can add a user-defined saving rule to each cloud flow, which generates savings at successful cloud flow runs. The aggregated savings trend and total amount can be overseen in the automation center”.
Reference: MC1160319. General availability due 27th October 2025. Read more: Savings in Power Automate | Microsoft Learn.

🔜 Microsoft Edge to adopt Adobe-powered PDF viewer by default for enterprise users on Windows

Microsoft Edge on Windows will soon default to an Adobe-powered PDF viewer for all enterprise users. Due October 2025 to March 2026. Read more.

🕔 Microsoft Edge gets an AI-powered History search
Microsoft Edge is introducing an AI-powered history search to help you find previously visited sites more easily. Now due late September to late October 2025. Read more.

🔭 Microsoft Edge: v.141 – Real-time video translation
Microsoft: “If you’re learning a new language, or just like to watch foreign videos with subtitles in your preferred language, Microsoft Edge can help. With real-time video translation in Edge, you can watch videos in a different language with translated audio dub. Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, hardware configuration (minimum 12 GB RAM and 4-core CPU), region, and platform. Availability is limited to select markets. Admins can control availability to this feature using the LiveVideoTranslationEnabled policy”.
Roadmap ID: 503301. Platforms: Web. Due October 2025.

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