09-December-2025 Below you will find a collection of news published yesterday. This news consists of Microsoft’s Roadmap when it is updated it will be below with items. Then there will be a section with the message center, if there is anything new there, this will be automatically included. And it contains a piece from blogs that I follow myself and would like to share with you. If I miss something in the blogs that do have an RSS feed, please let me know.
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The blogs of this day are:
Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2025-12-09
Additions : 6
Updates : 15
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Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessionsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC1019312Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants will be able to request an annotation session while someone else is sharing their screen. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop. (Users can view and annotate in Teams on the web but cannot initiate annotations.) This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89975. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2026 (previously early January) and expect to complete by mid-February 2026 (previously mid-January). General Availability (WW, GCC, GCC High, and DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2026 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late February 2026 (previously late January). [How this will affect your organization:] 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:
If the request is accepted, the annotation session will start for everyone in the meeting:
Anonymous users in the meeting will not be able to send a request. This change will be available by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate. Learn more: Use annotation while sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Support (we will update this before rollout) Watch: How to use Collaborative Annotations in a Microsoft Teams meeting (2022) | ||||||||||
| (Updated) Copilot Dashboard: Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent RecapCategory:Microsoft Viva Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1085574Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 494687 [When this will happen:] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out this change late September 2025 (previously late July) and expect to complete by late October 2025 (previously late September). General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out this change early December 2025 (previously early January 2026) and completed early December 2025 (previously end of January 2026). [How this will affect your organization:] Users enabled to view M365 Copilot dashboard will see the following updates to the Impact tab:
Users who have access to Advanced Insights will see similar updates in the M365 Copilot Impact report. They will also be able to include “Meetings recapped” and “Meeting hours recapped” metrics in their flexible queries.
[What you need to do to prepare:] The changes mentioned do not impact eligibility criteria to access the M365 Copilot Dashboard or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Impact report on Advanced Insights. To view the updated metrics in Advanced Insights, you can access the pre-computed Microsoft 365 Copilot Impact report. You can also set-up your own query to customize metrics and additional organizational attributes. To learn more, please see the following:
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| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group complianceCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC1134737Status:planForChange | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. In response to customer feedback, we are introducing enhanced flexibility, greater scalability, and streamlined compliance management for private channels in Microsoft Teams. Note: It is important for compliance managers to review and take appropriate action before migration starts for these changes to private channels. [What’s changing?] Private channels will transition use a channel mailbox instead of individual user mailboxes. Organizations with compliance policies (retention, legal hold, data loss prevention, or eDiscovery) for private channels must review these policies and must apply policies to the Microsoft 365 group for the channel’s team before migration begins to ensure continuity of the policy for a private channel. Existing policies will continue to apply to user mailboxes; post-migration, new data will be governed by policies on the group. Note that policies applied to the team’s group can apply to all channels in the team. After the transition to updated private channels in your organization, private channels will be updated as follows.
The migration of private channels to the updated capabilities will begin in early October 2025 and continue through January 2026 (previously December 2025). During this period, private channels will continue to operate normally. Admins and compliance managers should complete any required policy changes by October 2025 (previosly September), before the migration begins. Changes to private channel limits and meeting scheduling will follow in February 2026. Migration can start or end at different times for each tenant during the rollout period. To track progress, a new PowerShell command will be available for tenants to check whether their migration has started or is completed. This post will be updated soon with details on the PowerShell command. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out private channel migration early October 2025 (previously late September) and expect to complete by late January 2026 (previously mid-December 2025). Updated channel limits and meeting scheduling will begin rollout in early February 2026 and we expect to complete by end of February 2026.
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| (Updated) New request and approval experience for Microsoft agents in the Microsoft 365 admin centerCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1134738Status:planForChange | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Introduction We’re introducing a new request and approval experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Microsoft agents. This update enables users to request access to agents—even those currently unavailable due to your organization’s configuration—directly from the Agent Store. You can manage these requests centrally from the Copilot > Agents & connectors page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, streamlining access control and improving visibility into user interest. Note: This request flow applies exclusively to agents built by Microsoft and does not extend to other agents available in the store.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 494809. When this will happen Rollout will begin early January 2026 (previously late November 2025) and complete by end of January 2026 (previously mid-December 2025). How this affects your organization This update enhances flexibility and transparency in agent access management:
This feature is on by default and requires no configuration to enable. What you can do to prepare No setup is required—this feature will roll out automatically. To prepare:
Compliance considerations No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||
| (Updated) Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud LocationsCategory:Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC1137593Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline due to a pending release for the Monthly Enterprise Channel. Thank you for your patience. Introduction IT Administrators will be able to set up Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Windows applications to limit the creation of new files to only Cloud Locations (OneDrive, SharePoint, or third-party Clouds). This configuration is called For the policy to apply, users should be using a Windows version of Word, Excel and PowerPoints Version 2506 (Build 19029.20000) or newer. This new Policy is part of a new set of tools for IT Administrators to move their organizations towards higher Cloud usage and Increase security and compliance: Files in the Cloud are automatically protected by your company’s security rules and labeling, so you don’t have to take extra steps to keep them safe and compliant. This policy setting controls whether Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users can use non-Cloud locations (local and network) to create new files. If you enable this policy setting, users will only have Cloud Locations available to perform Save As and Save new files. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, users can use any location (Cloud, Local, and Network) to perform Save As and Save new files. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. When this will happen
How this will affect your organization If you do nothing, this change will have no impact on your organization. If you enable the new Policy, Office will limit the creation of new Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files to Cloud Locations; Save and Save a Copy operations will only present Cloud locations and all local destinations will disappear from Office programs.
If Known Folders have been redirected to OneDrive (KFM), these folders are considered Cloud folders and they will be available for Save and Save a Copy operations. What you need to do to prepare If your organization already keep all Office files in the Cloud, this policy will prevent users from accidentally saving files outside of the Cloud. If users in your organization still use local files, this policy will promote the creation of new files in the Cloud and prevent additional files to be created locally. You can communicate this change to end users explaining the advantages of saving the files to the Cloud instead of saving to local folders:
To minimize impact on users, we recommend moving (redirecting) known folders to OneDrive (Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive – SharePoint in Microsoft 365) To deploy this policy: If you use Active Directory, Microsoft Entra or hybrid environments, you can use Group Policy Objects. Group policy can represent policy settings in the file system or in Active Directory Domain Services. When used with Active Directory, Group Policy settings are contained in a Group Policy Object (GPO). (Group Policy overview for Windows; Create and manage group policy in Microsoft Entra Domain Services – Microsoft Entra ID) You can also use Cloud Policy Service: Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 lets you enforce policy settings for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on a user’s device, even if the device isn’t domain joined or otherwise managed. When a user signs into Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on a device, the policy settings roam to that device. (Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 – Microsoft 365 Apps) Learn More:
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| (Update)Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extractionCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC1158908Status:planForChange | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the content and timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Outlook’s Events from email feature helps users stay organized by automatically adding reservations such as flights, hotels, rental cars, and deliveries to their calendars. To improve reliability and ensure this feature continues to work smoothly, we strongly encourage all providers to adopt Schema.org markup in their transactional emails. This change aligns with industry standards and improves accuracy, consistency, and long-term support. Until now, Outlook has relied on legacy extraction to support this feature. However:
Screenshot of Settings > Calendar > Events from email [When this will happen:] We encourage providers to transition to Schema.org as early as possible, as continued reliance on legacy support is not sustainable. Organizations that do not migrate may experience a gradual decline in the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of automatically generated events. These issues cannot be fixed on the legacy stack, the only long-term solution is migration to Schema.org standards. [How this affects your organization:] Who is affected:
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[What you can do to prepare:]
[Compliance considerations] No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||
| (Updated) Learning agent in FrontierCategory:Microsoft Viva Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1187676Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have changed the expiration date. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] The Learning agent is now available in Frontier. This agent helps employees build skills through personalized microlearning and structured learning experiences embedded directly into Microsoft 365 tools. These experiences include personalized task-based Copilot tips to augment workflows, learning recommendations tailored to user skills, curated learning paths, and interactive role-play exercises powered by LinkedIn Learning. This message is associated with Roadmap ID 490154. About Frontier The Frontier program gives customers early, hands-on access to experimental Microsoft 365 Copilot innovations in their own environment. The agents and AI features designated as “Frontier” are previews, built for evaluation and feedback purposes. As these features are still in development, their availability and capabilities may change at any time. [When this will happen:] Frontier Availability (Worldwide): Available now. [How this affects your organization:]
[What you can do to prepare:]
Frontier features are experimental and subject to change. Participation in the Frontier program is optional. [Compliance considerations:] No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization. | ||||||||||
| (Updated) PowerPoint adds AI-powered image editing with “Designer editor”Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) Microsoft 365 Copilot ChatNummer:MC1187787Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction]
The new Designer editor integration in PowerPoint introduces a modern, intuitive image editing experience directly within your slides—eliminating the need to switch apps or interrupt your workflow. Whether you’re refining visuals for a pitch deck, enhancing marketing assets, or simply making your slides more engaging, the Designer editor enables fast, seamless image enhancements powered by AI. Screenshot 1: Designer editor is now built into PowerPoint, so you can edit pictures without leaving the app. To get started, select a picture and then select Picture Format > Edit Picture, or right-click it and select Edit Picture.
Screenshot 2: Transform your visuals using AI-powered tools like Remove background, Auto enhance, and more—right from the canvas. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 508530. [When this will happen:]
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| (Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chats in search resultsCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1189002Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. We’re introducing a new capability that enhances Microsoft Copilot by integrating historical Copilot conversations into Microsoft Search. This update allows users to retrieve past interactions—including chats from notebooks, agents, and the main Copilot chat interface—directly within the search results page (SERP). A new “Copilot Chats” data source will also appear in the right rail, enabling users to scope their search specifically to Copilot-generated content. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to access this feature. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 506751. When this will happen:
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| (Updated) Viva Engage: Update community cover photos in Teams for iOS.Category:Microsoft Teams Microsoft VivaNummer:MC1191346Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the title. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] We’re adding more customization to your communities in the Viva Engage app for Microsoft Teams in iOS. Soon, as a community admin, you’ll be able to update your communities’ cover photos directly from the Teams iOS app. This feature is already available on Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for Android, and supports a consistent and personalized experience across platforms. Screenshot 1: A community’s cover photo, with options to Take a photo or Upload a picture. This message is associated with Roadmap ID 526783. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late December 2025 and expect to complete by early January 2026.
[How this will affect your organization:] Who is affected: All Viva Engage community admins using the Viva Engage app in Microsoft Teams. What will happen:
[What you can do to prepare:]
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| (Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: RSVP to meetings directly in Copilot chatCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1192258Status:stayInformed | Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] We’re introducing a new capability in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat that allows users to RSVP to meetings directly within the chat experience. This enhancement simplifies meeting management by enabling quick responses such as Accept, Decline, Tentative, Follow, or Remove canceled meetings—all without leaving Copilot chat. [When this will happen]General Availability (Worldwide, GCC and DoD): Rollout will begin mid-December 2025 (previously early December) and is expected to complete by late December 2025. [How this affects your organization]
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| Coming Soon: Anthropic models will be available by default in Copilot experiencesCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC1193290Status:planForChange | [Introduction:] In September, Anthropic models became available in certain Copilot experiences through an opt-in setting, where use was subject to Anthropic’s commercial terms and data processing agreement. On January 7, 2026, Anthropic models will be enabled by default for many customers and now offered under the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum. To enable this change, Anthropic has been onboarded as a Microsoft subprocessor. This transition extends Microsoft’s contractual commitments and data protection standards to the use of Anthropic models in Copilot experiences. [How this affects your organization:] Who is affected:
Key changes
Some features are only available when Anthropic models are enabled. If you turn off this option, certain features may no longer be accessible. Customer and region exclusions: The following customers and regions will not have the toggle set to default on:
What does it mean that Anthropic is now a Microsoft subprocessor? As a subprocessor for Copilot experiences, Anthropic will operate under Microsoft’s direction and contractual safeguards. This includes coverage under the Microsoft Data Protection Addendum (DPA) and Product Terms. In addition, use of Anthropic models in Microsoft 365 Copilot falls under our Enterprise Data Protection as described here. Note that Anthropic models are currently excluded from EU Data Boundary and when applicable, in-country processing commitments. Learn more:
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| How to use Microsoft Intune to update expiring Secure Boot certificatesCategory:WindowsNummer:MC1193371Status:stayInformed | You can now deploy, manage, and monitor Secure Boot certificate updates. This method represents an alternative to setting registry keys and using Group Policy. You can use Intune to deploy on all domain-joined Windows clients, opt out of high-confidence buckets, and opt in to Microsoft managing these updates. When will this happen: The following settings are now available in the Intune settings catalog:
How this will affect your organization: As the 2011 Secure Boot certificates will start expiring in June 2026, it is essential that organizations start planning for and updating to 2023 certificates. You can now use Microsoft Intune, in addition to registry keys and Group Policy, to deploy, manage, and monitor this update process. The three new settings are disabled by default. Enable them to start taking advantage of the desired capabilities. What you need to do to prepare: To manage Secure Boot certificate updates in Intune, enable the new settings by navigating to the Microsoft Intune admin center:
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