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Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience for declarative agents and API plugins in Teams Toolkit. GA date: May CY2025

Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug.GA date: March CY2025Preview date: January CY2025

OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator...

The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trailGA date: July CY2025

Through the new Feature Access management user interface, admins will be able to manage feature access settings directly in Microsoft 365 admin center. Feature access management allows admins to use access policies to manage which users can access specific features in Viva apps, so you can tailor your deployments to meet your local regulatory or business requirements. Previously, these policies could only be managed...

Users with the Viva Engage app in Teams will now receive notifications when others reply or react to their posts.GA date: January CY2025

Concurrency assignment in Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode refers to the number of active Cloud PCs that can be used simultaneously within the total number of licensed Cloud PC usage for Frontline. This allocation ensures that resources are optimized based on the specific needs of the organization and its users.GA date: June CY2025Preview date: February CY2025

Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the 'File extension is' or 'File type is' rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope.More info:...

While previously able to reserve a spot within a desk pool, now you can book an individual desk when plugging into a shared desk peripheral. In addition, IT admins can get valuable individual desk utilization data in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal making flexible work environments better for users and IT. This feature requires a Teams Premium license.GA date: March CY2025

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 the Web in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and...

This update includes improvements to OneDrive cloud storage, multiplayer, and coding. It also includes Minecraft features up to version 1.21.5 like Bundles, the Pale Garden biome, and the reorganized Creative Inventory.GA date: January CY2025

We’re introducing modifications in the container type creation cmdlets. The New-SPOContainerType cmdlet will only create a new container type. We are introducing the Add-SPOContainerTypeBilling cmdlet to add billing profile to the new container type. GA date: January CY2025

Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts...

Teams panels can now smartly utilize signals from Teams Rooms devices or occupancy sensors paired with panels to indicate when a room is in use (e.g. LED glow), so you’re not surprised to find an available room is actually occupied.GA date: March CY2025

Insider Risk Management Administrators will now be able to increase the CPU and GPU device resource utilization limit for all devices uploading Forensic Evidence clips in their organization. Forensic Evidence will now allow up to 31% CPU and GPU device resource utilization, up from the prior maximum limit of 5%. This enhancement reduces interruptions in the recording and uploading of clips. Microsoft Purview Insider...

The update enables SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to identify the different kind of containers (user, tenant, and group) and the principal owner associated with the container.GA date: January CY2025

Custom agent adoption metrics and insights report in Viva Insights analyst workbench. Scope includes custom agents created in Copilot Studio, insights are aggregated on the agent-level. GA date: June CY2025Preview date: April CY2025

Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable recordings. Previously, the recording policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the recording policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses.GA date: March CY2025

Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses.GA date: March CY2025

The Microsoft 365 app name, icon, and UI will evolve to support future AI-first experiences. Key UI changes include reducing the top header and consolidating app-level tools and settings into the App toolbar on the left.GA date: January CY2025

With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook data files) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able move (drag and drop) emails from a .pst file to a mailbox and vice versa. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows, #pstfilesupportGA date: January CY2025

This release will add a dwell time graph to Amplify reporting. The dwell time graph will indicate the average time users spend reading a publication, giving important insight into the engagement of users with the Amplify campaign. This graph will be supported from SharePoint and Outlook channels.GA date: March CY2025

With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn't complete scanning, document name matches patterns, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, and document name contains words or phrases.GA date: February CY2025

With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook data files) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to move, copy, delete, flag/unflag, mark as read/unread, and set categories for email within .pst files. Additionally, users will be able to create, delete, move, and rename folders within .pst files. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst...