Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter and blogs updates from 07-10-2025

Updated October 6, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. 

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.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot, Viva Suite, or Viva Insights license is required to enable People Skills data in Viva Insights.

This message applies to the Viva Insights web app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 491022.

[When this will happen]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2025 (previously late September) and expect to complete by late November 2025 (previously October). 

[How this will affect your organization]

Insights analysts will have access to a new Skills landscape Power BI template in the advanced insights app:

After setting up the report in Power BI, users will be able to access aggregated skills insights for their organization and use these to support use cases such as identifying skill gaps, optimizing workforce distribution, and promoting upskilling:

With this report, users can:

• Understand People Skills data and its usage
• Browse commonly used skills and areas of skills specialization
• See how groups of skills are distributed in your organization
• Explore skills hierarchy

[What you need to do to prepare]

This report template will be available in the advanced insights app with no admin action required, but the following steps are required for the Skills landscape report to process successfully:

• Before users in your organization can run this report, you must set up People Skills and enable the People Skills data in Viva Insights. Most organizations can quickly set up People Skills using the out-of-the-box skills library. You also have the option to curate your own library by importing custom skills. During the setup, make sure to select the option to allow People Skills in Viva Insights. After these settings are confirmed, it can take a few days for People Skills data to be processed and ingested in Viva Insights.
• To enable People Skills data in one or more of your Viva Insights partitions, make sure your Insights administrator include this dataset when creating or editing a partition. This will become available once public preview starts.
• Please make sure Insights analysts and users in your organization are aware of this upcoming change and direct them to the Skills landscape report documentation to learn more about how to use this report.

Learn more

• Skills landscape report | Microsoft Learn
• Overview of People Skills | Microsoft Learn
• Blog: Announcing People Skills general availability and new Skills agent | Microsoft Community Hub

Updated October 6, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. 

 We’re introducing voice chats in Microsoft 365 Copilot. 

This update enables users to interact with Copilot using voice, offering a more natural, hands-free experience. Voice chat in M365 Copilot allows users to brainstorm ideas, explore topics, and quickly search—while being able to interrupt or redirect the conversation at any time. This feature will support productivity and accessibility across platforms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap 481138.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout will start early September 2025 (Previously iOS-only in mid-August). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will see a voice chat icon in the bottom-right corner of the input box when using M365 Copilot. Selecting this icon will start voice conversation with Copilot, enabling a more natural and flexible way to interact with AI. This feature is on by default and does not require admin configuration. 

iOS/Android: 

Web/Windows/Mac: 

[What you can do to prepare:]

This feature will be on by default. No action is required by an admin. It is recommended that you notify your users about this new capability and update internal documentation.  

Updated October 6, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. 

Coming soon for Microsoft Defender for Office 365: We are excited to announce the new CampaignInfo and FileMaliciousContentInfo data tables in Advanced hunting under Email & collaboration schema.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): General Availability: We will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by late November 2025, covering both Advanced Hunting and Sentinel availability.

[How this will affect your organization:]

The new tables will be available by default. SOC teams will be able to see two new data tables in Defender > Advanced hunting > Email & collaboration schema.

1. CampaignInfo

The CampaignInfo table in the Advanced hunting schema contains information about email campaigns identified by Defender for Office 365. The table will have this schema to help the security teams to investigate threats targeting their users and organization:

2. FileMaliciousContentInfo

The FileMaliciousContentInfo table in the Advanced hunting schema contains information about files that were processed by Defender for Office 365 in Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. The table will have this schema to help the security teams to investigate threats targeting their users and organization:

Here are a few sample queries to get you started:

//Emails sent as part of phishing campaigns

CampaignInfo

| where Timestamp > ago(7d)

| where CampaignType has "Phish"

| project NetworkMessageId, RecipientEmailAddress, CampaignName, CampaignId, CampaignType

| join (EmailEvents | where Timestamp > ago(7d)) on NetworkMessageId, RecipientEmailAddress

| project Timestamp, NetworkMessageId, Subject, SenderMailFromAddress, RecipientEmailAddress, LatestDeliveryLocation, LatestDeliveryAction, CampaignId, CampaignName, CampaignType

//Files identified as Malware modified in last 1 day

FileMaliciousContentInfo

| where ThreatTypes == "Malware"

| where LastModifiedTime > ago(1d)

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to assess the impact on your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update your relevant documentation.

After the Public Preview rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.

Updated September 23, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. 

 We’re introducing a new visual indicator in the reading pane of Outlook Mobile (iOS and Android) to help users identify messages from unverified senders. This feature aligns with existing functionality in Outlook for desktop and web, bringing a consistent experience across platforms. When a message is from a sender we couldn’t verify as safe, users will see a banner in the reading pane warning them to be cautious.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 491471.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late October 2025 (previously mid-September).

[How this will affect your organization:]

When users receive an email from an unverified sender, they will see a banner in the reading pane explaining why the sender is flagged and warning about potential impersonation. This complements existing safety messages such as:

• “External sender”
• “Not on safe senders list”
• “You don’t often get email from this sender”

This feature is available by default when the unverified signal is received by the service. There are no admin controls to configure or disable this functionality.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No admin action is required. However, we recommend informing your users about this new visual cue and its purpose. If your organization provides internal training or documentation on email safety, consider updating it to include this new banner.

Learn more: Phishing and suspicious behavior in Outlook

Updated October 6, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. 

 Introduction

We’re introducing Immersive Search, a new experience across Outlook for Web, Mac, iOS, Android, and the new Outlook for Windows. After performing a search, users will see an entry point to the Microsoft Copilot side pane, which presents a highly relevant, AI-generated summary based on their query. This summary includes content from emails, Teams messages, and documents—helping users quickly understand and act on their information.

This feature uses Microsoft 365 Copilot with an Outlook-specific experience and is available only to tenants with Copilot licenses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 498319.

When this will happen

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late October 2025 (previously late September) and expect to complete by late November 2025 (previously late October).

How this will affect your organization

Once rolled out, users will see a new entry point to the Copilot side pane after executing a search in Outlook. This pane surfaces AI-generated summaries, improving productivity and reducing time spent navigating search results.

Copilot side pane in Outlook search results:

Key details:

• The Copilot side pane appears only after a user performs a search and selects the entry point on the search results page (SERP).
• Summaries include all content supported by Microsoft 365 Copilot, such as indexed emails, Teams messages, attachments, and shared files from OneDrive or SharePoint.
• This feature is on by default and does not require admin configuration.
• There are no changes to existing DLP, eDiscovery, or retention policies.
• Admins cannot control access to this feature via policy settings or Entra ID group membership.
• There is currently no setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center or Outlook user settings to manage or disable this experience.
• There is no way to monitor or audit usage of this feature through Microsoft Purview or Microsoft 365 audit logs.

What you can do to prepare

No action is required at this time. However, we recommend informing users about this new experience to reduce confusion and help desk inquiries.

You may also want to review your organization’s Copilot licensing and ensure users are aware of how to use the Copilot side pane effectively.

Compliance considerations

Updated October 6, 2025: Following further review, this feature continues in Public Preview. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We’re enhancing the Copilot Studio agents report to provide more actionable insights with weekly data aggregation and active user counts per agent. These updates will help organizations monitor agent performance more frequently and make faster decisions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 499421

When this will happen

• Public Preview (Worldwide): Begins rolling out in late August 2025 and expected to complete by early November 2025 (previously early September).
• General Availability (Worldwide): We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.

How this affects your organization

• Existing reports (one-off or recurring) will continue to use monthly aggregation.
• All 1-click and precomputed Copilot Studio agents reports will automatically refresh to a weekly cadence.
• Weekly aggregation enables earlier access to insights. For example, previously a customer with agent usage starting June 6th would need to wait until August to run the report. With weekly aggregation, they can run it by July 12th.
• Reports will now include active user count per agent, helping analysts and leaders better understand agent engagement.
• Users with Insights Analyst or Leader roles can access the report at: https://analysis.insights.cloud.microsoft/Reports

What you can do to prepare

• Review the impact of these changes with your organization and works council if applicable.
• Update training materials and documentation to reflect the new weekly cadence and active user metrics.
• No action is required from Microsoft Viva Insights or Power Platform admins unless specific configuration changes are needed.

Learn more 

• Learn more about the Microsoft Copilot studio custom agents report Power BI report: Copilot Studio agents report | Microsoft Learn 
• Learn how to generate Power BI report templates: Introduction to Power BI templates in Microsoft Viva Insights | Microsoft Learn
• Learn more about Advanced insights app : Introduction to advanced insights | Microsoft Learn 
• Learn more about Microsoft copilot dashboard –Connect to the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard for Microsoft 365 customers | Microsoft Learn 
• Learn more about Microsoft Copilot Studio and way to create an agent:- Overview – Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn 
• Learn more about Microsoft Power Platform admin center (PPAC). PPAC Administrators can take certain actions to disable the connection between Microsoft Copilot Studio and Viva Insights Advanced Insights – Administer Microsoft Power Platform – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn 

Compliance considerations

No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.

Updated September 10, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.

Introduction

We’re introducing a new tenant-level admin control in Microsoft 365 admin center that enables IT admins to manage who can create org-wide sharing links for user-built agents. This feature introduces granular control and governance over who in an organization can create org-wide sharing links for user-built agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio Agent Builder.

This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 500376.

When this will happen

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in early October 2025 (previously mid-September) and expect to complete by late October 2025 (previously late September).

How this affects your organization

By default, existing behavior remains unchanged. Once available, admins will be able to configure whether all users, no users, or only specific users or groups are permitted to create org-wide sharing links for agents built in Copilot Studio Agent Builder. This control helps organizations align agent sharing permissions with internal governance policies and collaboration needs.

What you can do to prepare

Admins can access the new control by navigating to:

Microsoft 365 admin center > Copilot > Settings > Data access > Agents

No action is required unless you want to customize sharing permissions. We recommend reviewing your organization’s sharing policies and updating settings as needed.

Learn more: Manage agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center | Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Compliance considerations

No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.

Updated October 2, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.

[Introduction]

We’re introducing a new way to quickly summarize emails and attachments using Copilot chat in Outlook. With a single click, users can generate concise summaries of email content and attachments, helping them stay focused and save time. This feature supports both Classic and New Outlook for Windows and is available to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and pinning enabled.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 503316.

[When this will happen:]

• Targeted Release (Worldwide): Rollout underway by early October 2025; expected completion by early November 2025.
• General Availability (Worldwide): Begins mid-October 2025; expected completion by late November 2025.

[How this affects your organization:]

Who is affected: Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and pinning enabled in Outlook across Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web, and Windows (Classic and New).

What will happen:

Users will see a new option to summarize email content using Copilot chat:

• The feature will be available across Android, Desktop, iOS, Mac, Web, and both Classic and New Outlook for Windows.
• No admin configuration is required; the feature is enabled by default for eligible users.
• Existing policies are respected; no changes to admin controls are needed.

[What you can do to prepare:]

• No action is required.
• You may choose to inform users about the new summarization capability.
• If desired, update internal documentation to reflect the availability of this feature.

[Compliance considerations:]

No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.

• Service representatives inherit the custom default primary language for translation services as their user interface language.
• Configuration settings at the channel level rather than global, so each channel can have its own language settings.
• Channel-default language will be the fallback language based on confidence scores from translation services.
• An out-of-the-box web resource that gives representatives a default real-time translation for their conversations from Microsoft.

• Turn the service on or off for each conversation.
• Manually change the language for receiving/sending and reading messages.
• Hide or view the original and translated versions of each text message separately and/or the whole transcript to avoid confusion and additional mental load.
• Retry translations if there are issues.

Updated September 26, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. 

Coming soon: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage in your tenant will be added to the Microsoft Graph API to facilitate the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (totals for each Microsoft 365 app and a grand total). A Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396562 and with MC724835 Microsoft 365 admin center Usage report: Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat (Preview) (published March 2024).

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2025 (previously late September) and expect to complete by late November 2025 (previously late October). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, the Graph API did not include Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage.

After this rollout, admins can use the Graph API to create customized reporting and analytics for Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage.

Sample request for one of the three APIs: getMicrosoft365CopilotUserCountSummary.

Sample response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/json

Content-Length: 537

{

"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/reports/getMicrosoft365CopilotUserCountSummary(period='D7')?$format=application/json",

"value": [

{

"reportRefreshDate": "2024-06-26",

"adoptionByProduct": [

{

"reportPeriod": 7,

"anyAppEnabledUsers": 354590,

"anyAppActiveUsers": 144022,

"microsoftTeamsEnabledUsers": 354449,

"microsoftTeamsActiveUsers": 88737,

"wordEnabledUsers": 354449,

"wordActiveUsers": 17493,

"powerPointEnabledUsers": 354449,

"powerPointActiveUsers": 7245,

"outlookEnabledUsers": 354449,

"outlookActiveUsers": 38140,

"excelEnabledUsers": 354449,

"excelActiveUsers": 2554,

"oneNoteEnabledUsers": 354449,

"oneNoteActiveUsers": 1382,

"loopEnabledUsers": 354449,

"loopActiveUsers": 955,

"copilotChatEnabledUsers": 354449,

"copilotChatActiveUsers": 64401

}

This feature is on by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.

To learn more about Microsoft’s own review of this product with its works councils, please consider reading: https://aka.ms/Copilot/MSWorksCouncilsArticle