Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter and blogs updates from 07-03-2025

het nieuws van Microsoft message center roadmap en blogs - KbWorks - SharePoint and Teams Specialist

07-March-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:

#MVPbuzzChat 304 with Karinne Bessettevan @buckleyplanet
Join the SharePoint Hackathon 2025van @buckleyplanet
{How to} Create Journeys by using Copilot to describe them in Dynamics 365 Customer Insightsvan @UK365GUY
What’s new in Copilot Studio: February 2025van @office
[Publications]: March 2025 updates for Office 365 for IT Pros just released!van @jcgm1978
Securing generative AI models on Azure AI Foundryvan @MSFTSecurity
CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – Marchvan nogintevullen
Project Failure Files: Overlooking Signs of Employee Apathyvan @buckleyplanet
Silk Typhoon targeting IT supply chainvan @MSFTSecurity
Toggle between dark and light themes using the MGT ThemeToggle controlvan @iamguidozam
Workshop 11 mars: Vårdens digitala framtidvan nogintevullen
6 Best Practices to Organize Documents in SharePoint Onlinevan nogintevullen
Code your blog header image using Front Mattervan @appieschot
The newest OneDrive Versionvan @HansBrender
How to Create and Send an Outlook Newslettervan @12Knocksinna
How to properly set up Permissions on a SharePoint Sitevan @gregoryzelfond
Exchange Server Updates, AI Hype, and Practical Cybersecurity with Paula Januszkiewicz: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E36van @practical365
New sales agents accessible in Microsoft 365 Copilot help teams close more deals, fastervan @office
Code View is now Generally Availablevan @MSPowerApps
Power Platform ALM Solution Dependencies Enhance Your Calmvan CarinaMClaesson
Authentication for Astro with Azure Static Web Appsvan @eliostruyf
Microsoft 365: Adding Copilot Agents to chats in Teams!van @jcgm1978
{Do you know} Select columns downloaded on mobile devices on Power Appsvan @UK365GUY
Alternating Row Colors in SharePoint: A Step-by-Step Guidevan @chambernate
HaHank Aaron’s SECRET to a POWERFUL Swing!van @gruberjl
Practical Protection: Automating Inactive Account Blocking with PowerShellvan @practical365
How to Extract Thumbnail Images from an XML RSS Feed Using Power Automatevan @anand.vadivelan
Simple Event Session Check In Canvas Appvan @MeganVWalker
Passing Resources between Azure Bicep modulesvan @StanZhelyazkov
Using iOS Build Numbers in Exchange ActiveSync Device Access Rulesvan @12Knocksinna
Let M365 Copilot prioritise your Outlook inboxvan nogintevullen

Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2025-03-06

Additions : 7
Updates : 12

More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com


New FeaturesCurrent Status
Microsoft Teams: Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a responseIn Development
Microsoft Teams: Introducing new IT administrator policies to control Town hall Event AccessIn Development
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support large documents in Word CopilotIn Development
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web QueriesIn Development
SharePoint: Design Ideas Suggests Images from Org AssetsIn Development
SharePoint: Design Ideas for Blank Flexible SectionsIn Development
Outlook: Move to in the pop-out ribbon in New Outlook and Outlook for WebIn Development
 
Updated FeaturesCurrent StatusUpdate Type
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with PythonLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on AndroidLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on AndroidLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams phone devicesLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendeesLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage)LaunchedStatus
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with CopilotLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Improved reporting – Additional report fields in the Time Clock exportLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN callsLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Auto-association of BYOD room devices in the Pro Management portalLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Teams: Navigate meetings and messages hands-free with Teams in CarPlayLaunchedStatus
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP support – Just-in-time on MacOSIn DevelopmentDescription

Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2025-03-07

Additions : 1
Updates : 0

More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com


New FeaturesCurrent Status
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Query EditorIn Development
 

Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams Customer Office Hours: Get help from the product team on deploying Teams for your frontline workers
Category:Microsoft Teams
Nummer:MC1002406
Status:stayInformed

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

Do you have questions about deploying and using Teams for your frontline workers? Are you looking for ways to simplify everyday management and boost productivity? We’re the engineering team behind Microsoft Teams for Frontline, and we’re here to support you every step of the way.

Our mission is to empower your workforce with tools that streamline communication and enhance operational efficiency.

Join us during our Weekly Office Hours for real-time answers, best practices, and expert guidance on making the most of Teams for your frontline teams.

Note: If you are not using frontline worker functionality, you can safely ignore this message.

We are pleased to announce new weekly Microsoft Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours: A dedicated time for you to engage directly with the product team to support Teams deployments for your frontline workers.

Objective: This initiative aims to enhance live customer engagement and satisfaction by:

  • Addressing deployment-related questions in real time
  • Providing direct support to ensure smooth and successful rollouts
  • Gathering customer feedback to improve frontline worker deployment features

When are Customer Office Hours

The Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours takes place every Wednesday from 9:00-9:30am PT.

What Do Office Hours Cover?

  • Customer Q&A: Get answers to questions about deploying teams at scale for your frontline workers and overall deployment best practices.
  • Follow-ups: We will capture unresolved issues and address them after the meeting.
  • Feedback collection: Share your thoughts on recently released deployment features.

Launch Timeline: Teams Frontline Customer Office hours launched on January 22, 2025.

How to join: Join the Teams meeting with https://aka.ms/TeamsFrontlineCustomerOfficeHours

Who is this for?

This session is perfect for IT admins, managers, and anyone responsible for deploying or managing Microsoft Teams for their frontline workers.

Whether you’re:

Deploying Teams for the first time or scaling deployments for your frontline workers

Maximizing productivity with Teams tools and apps

Integrating Teams into daily processes to create seamless workflows

Optimizing existing setups to reduce complexity and improve efficiency

We’ve got you covered.

What to Expect:

Real-Time Guidance: Ask us anything about managing and using Teams for your frontline workers.

Best Practices & Tips: Learn how to streamline deployment, scale effectively, and integrate Teams into everyday processes.

Productivity Insights: Discover new ways to enhance individual and team productivity with Teams.

Feature Updates: Stay informed about new features and share your frontline scenarios with us.

Office Hours Details:

📅 Date: Every Wednesday

🕒 Time: 9:00 am – 9:30 am PST

📍 Location: Online (Teams Meeting)

🔗 Join Here: Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours 

Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: New predicates for email DLP to detect number of domains or recipients
Category:Microsoft 365 suite
Nummer:MC1024387
Status:stayInformed

Customers have expressed a significant pain point in managing and controlling the distribution of sensitive information in email. The lack of predicates to monitor the number of recipients or domains in outgoing emails poses a risk of data leaks and non-compliance with regulatory requirements. We are addressing this issue in Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention by rolling out new predicates that will enable organizations to set precise policies that trigger alerts or actions when emails exceed a specified number of recipients or domains. This feature is essential for enhancing data security, ensuring compliance, and providing peace of mind to organizations concerned about unauthorized data dissemination.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 483158.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, admins can use the new predicates in Data Loss Prevention > Policy settings > Create rule > Unique recipients greater than and Unique domains greater than to take action on emails based on the number of recipients or domains in the email:

admin settings

This change will be available by default for admins to configure.

[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 determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: New-DlpComplianceRule (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements
Category:Microsoft Purview
Nummer:MC1024388
Status:planForChange

We are excited to announce several enhancements to the recently launched modernized eDiscovery experience. These updates include:

  • Case Level Data Source View: Users can now access the case level data source view, which allows them to add data sources to the current case. These sources can be utilized in any searches or holds within the case.
  • Enhanced Search and Hold Capabilities: Users will have the ability to duplicate a search, create a search from an existing hold, or create a hold from an existing search within the current case.
  • Retry Failed Locations: The search statistics view now includes the option to retry failed locations, providing a more comprehensive search estimate.
  • Detailed Process Reports: We are adding information related to compliance boundaries, case/export/search names, and decryption settings into the relevant process report CSVs.
  • Tenant level process manager: This report will show all processes across eDiscovery cases for eDiscovery administrators and eDiscovery managers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 482558.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025 

[How this will affect your organization:]

eDiscovery users will start to see the relevant enhancements in the product, so internal documentation updates may be needed.  

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Evaluate how this feature will impact your organization’s eDiscovery process and, if needed, modify your internal documents accordingly. 

For more information, see Learn about eDiscovery solutions | Microsoft Learn.

Microsoft Viva Engage: New custom date ranges for Community and Conversation Analytics
Category:Microsoft Viva
Nummer:MC1024389
Status:stayInformed

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Engage: Community admins and content creators will be able to select custom date ranges in community and conversation analytics.

This feature will be available to customers with a license for Engage premium, Microsoft Viva Suite, or Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 168626.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, date ranges in conversation and community analytics only include: 7, 28, 90, and 365 days.

After this rollout, the date range selector in conversation and community analytics will support 1-365 days.

How to define a Custom date range in Viva Engage > Analytics > Community > Choose Custom from the date dropdown menu:

user controls

How to define a Custom date range in Viva Engage > Analytics > storyline posts > Choose Custom from the date dropdown menu:

user controls

[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 users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more

Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Viva Insights: New admin settings for advanced insights and personal insights
Category:Microsoft Viva Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Nummer:MC1024392
Status:planForChange

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Viva Insights will provide more granular admin controls in Microsoft 365 Copilot for Viva Insights features. As mentioned in MC1009917 (published February 2025), Viva Insights will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot by April 2025, enabling qualifying customers to access Microsoft 365 Copilot analytics powered by Viva Insights. You can change the settings for advanced insights and personal insights at tenant level before April 2025.

What’s new

  • New controls for global admins to manage access to Viva Insights advanced insights at the tenant level (requires a Viva Insights or Microsoft 365 Copilot license)
  • Separate admin controls for the Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard (requires 10+ Viva Insights assigned licenses or 50+ assigned Copilot licenses), the personal insights web app experiences (requires a Microsoft 365 license), and updated end user controls for personal insights

This message applies to Viva Insights for Windows desktop, Viva Insights for the web, and Viva Insights for iOS/Android.

[When will this happen]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.

[How this will affect your organization]

1. New controls for admins to manage advanced insights for the entire tenant

After this rollout, the Microsoft 365 global admin can manage enablement of advanced insights for the entire tenant in the Microsoft 365 admin center using Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets and in Microsoft Admin center. This is a tenant-level policy, not a user-level policy or group-level policy. Advanced insights will be on by default. You can turn off advanced insights if needed. Learn more about how to create policies: Microsoft Viva – Feature access management | Microsoft Learn

Note: Users cannot access advanced insights until the global admin assigns the roles of Insights admin and Insights analyst, even though advanced insights will be on by default. If you turn off advanced insights, Insights analysts will not be able to access advanced insights. Learn more: Assign roles | Microsoft Learn

2. Separate admin controls for the Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard, the personal insights web app experience, and updated end user controls for the personal insights

The global admin can configure the Viva Insights web experience at the tenant or user level. Learn more: Configure personal insights defaults | Microsoft Learn. When the global admin sets defaults at the tenant level or user level, these settings govern how users initially access personal insights. Users can retain the admin’s default status or change it. User documentation: Opt out of Viva Insights – Microsoft Support

As part of this update, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard will have separate admin settings from personal insights controls. Learn more: Manage settings for the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard | Microsoft Learn.

Note: If your users currently have access to Copilot Dashboard, they will be able to continue to have access to it, regardless of the admin settings or user-level settings for personal insights.

[What you need to do to prepare]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout.

Review Viva Insights setup overview | Microsoft Learn and the available settings for Viva Insights in your company (including admin and user settings for advanced insights, organizational insights, and personal insights) and communicate the changes to your organization.

Learn more

Microsoft SharePoint: New card animation feature for Pages, News, and Microsoft Viva Amplify
Category:SharePoint Online
Nummer:MC1024394
Status:stayInformed

Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: Cards can be animated for some web parts (Editorial cards, Images, and People) in SharePoint Pages, News, and Microsoft Viva Amplify.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 481510.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

This feature will be enabled by default for new cards created after the feature is released. Users can disable card animation in the web part property pane. To add animation to existing web parts, users can enable the setting in the web part property pane. To preview the card animation, view the published page or use Preview mode.

Pages and web parts created before this rollout are not impacted by this change.

[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 users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

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

Transitioning from user’s OneDrive to SharePoint for Whiteboards created in Teams Channels
Category:Microsoft Teams
Nummer:MC1024395
Status:planForChange

We are updating the storage location for Whiteboards created from the Teams Channel Tab App. Previously, these whiteboards were saved on the initiator’s OneDrive, which caused access issues due to sharing settings, information barriers, or conditional access policies. To resolve these issues and align with the behavior of other M365 apps, whiteboards initiated from the Teams Channel Tab App will now be stored in the corresponding SharePoint site of the Teams Channel (also known as the channel site). This change ensures seamless access for all channel members while adhering to set policies.

[When this will happen:]

We will begin rolling out in early April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

[How this affects your organization:]

This update will allow whiteboard files to work seamlessly for all channel members, ensuring they continue to adhere to the set policies. All channel members who have access to these whiteboards will be able to discover them from their board picker. No action is required from tenant admins as this change is managed by the Microsoft Whiteboard product team.

[What you can do to prepare:]

No action is required from tenant admins.

Clipchamp introduces AI-powered video creation with Clipchamp Copilot for work
Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Nummer:MC1024396
Status:planForChange

Clipchamp now offers an AI-powered video creation feature through Clipchamp Copilot for work. Simply type your prompt, and Clipchamp will generate a bespoke script, source high-quality stock footage, and assemble a video project complete with music, voiceover, text overlays, and transitions. This provides you with a first draft, which you can edit in the app. You can then export the video to mp4, which will be saved in OneDrive and count towards your OneDrive quota, ready for sharing. This feature is ideal for creating informational videos, video messaging, how-to guides, demos, and video presentations. Available on the Microsoft 365 Copilot plan.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 471441.

Video creator limitations

The video creation skill does not generate new video clips, animations, images, or audio. We use content in existing Microsoft 365 asset libraries to bring your video to life. Once the script is generated, we select the most appropriate audio and imagery available in our asset libraries to complement both the content and the style of your video. You can edit the video to update the script, replace the selected media, or extend the video with new content.

[When this will happen:]

  • Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late-April 2025.
  • General Availability: We will begin rolling out in late-April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Controlling access to your videos: The video creation skill will generate a Clipchamp video project within the user’s OneDrive (inside a Videos/Clipchamp folder). For more information about Clipchamp, visit our An external link was removed to protect your privacy. or the An external link was removed to protect your privacy. on our support site.

Managing access to video creation: This feature is only available for users who have the Microsoft 365 Copilot plan and will not be an upsell offering to other customers. There are no admin controls provided specifically for this feature. The feature only appears when users open a new blank project in Clipchamp.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Inform your team about the new feature and help us improve it by providing feedback. In addition to existing support and feedback mechanisms, users can provide quick feedback by clicking the thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon below their video. Clicking these icons will open the feedback dialog and allow users to enter comments and (optionally) include a screenshot or prompt information.

Microsoft 365 apps: We will prompt users to back up their files in Microsoft OneDrive
Category:OneDrive for Business Microsoft 365 apps
Nummer:MC1024398
Status:stayInformed

Coming soon: Eligible users will be prompted in the Message Bar below the toolbar in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows desktops to enroll in OneDrive Known Folder Move (KFM). Users will be able to select the folders to back up in Microsoft OneDrive.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

If your organization still has users who are not enrolled in KFM, the message (“BACK UP THIS DOCUMENT: Share and work with others in this and other files using OneDrive”) will encourage them to do it while using familiar desktop apps. After users select the Open OneDrive button, they can select the folders they want to back up in OneDrive:

user message

When users are enrolled in KFM, the files in their enrolled folder benefit from the advantages of cloud files:

  • Copilot support: Files are Copilot-enabled, making it simple and intuitive to access and leverage Copilot.
  • Easy collaboration: Cloud files enable sharing, commenting, and easy collaboration, with AutoSave ensuring changes are frequently and consistently saved.
  • Access from anywhere: Cloud files can be accessed from Windows, Mac, the web, iOS, and Android with synchronized changes.
  • Increased security and compliance: Enterprises can increase security and compliance, because all cloud files are subject to default classification, labeling, and protection (CLP) policies and auto-labeling.
  • Backup: Protection from data loss due to device failure.
  • Access to cloud-specific features like AutoSave and Version History

After enrolling, users can access their files in the known folders in File Explorer or OneDrive.

No action required. The feature will be enabled automatically for eligible users. If KFM is blocked in your organization, the message will not be displayed.

If an organization has blocked KFM, we will honor that and not display the message to the organization’s users.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration and notify users about the change, explaining the benefits of OneDrive and the sync process. Consider updating any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Exchange Online: New limit for dynamic distribution groups (DDGs)
Category:Exchange Online
Nummer:MC1024399
Status:planForChange

We will soon introduce a new limit on dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) in Microsoft Exchange Online. Each organization will be limited to a maximum of 3,000 DDGs. After this limit is reached, admins will need to remove existing DDGs before creating new ones. Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin enforcing this limit in early April 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

If your organization has fewer than 3,000 DDGs, this change will not impact you. However, after your organization reaches this limit, you will not be able to create new DDGs until some existing DDGs are removed.

This change will be on by default and cannot be turned off by admins.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

The enforcement of the DDG limit 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.

We recommend reviewing the usage of Dynamic Distribution Groups (DDGs) in your organization and removing any DDGs that are no longer needed. You can use the Dynamic distribution groups report in the Exchange admin center (EAC) to see the number of DDGs in your organization and insights into their usage. To access this report, go to the EAC > Reports > Mail flow > Dynamic distribution group report. Learn more: Dynamic Distribution Groups report in the new EAC in Exchange Online | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Entra: Browser access will be enabled by default for all Android users
Category:Microsoft Entra
Nummer:MC1024404
Status:planForChange

If your organization does not support Android devices, you can safely ignore this message.

As part of our overall security hardening efforts, we will migrate Microsoft Entra ID device registration to be hardware-bound. Since the device identity will be hardware-bound, we will retire the ability for users to enable a feature called Enable Browser Access (EBA) in the Microsoft Authenticator app and the Microsoft Company Portal app for Android. After this retirement, browser access will automatically be enabled as part of device registration.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): This change will start to roll out in July 2025. We will update this message with a more specific timeline closer to July 2025.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No action or preparation is required from admins or users regarding this change. The change will occur automatically.

The Enable Browser Access feature will retire from the Company Portal and Authenticator apps for Android:

user controls

This change was first announced in What’s new in Microsoft Entra – September 2024 | Microsoft Community Hub (September 2024).

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

Microsoft PowerPoint: Stay on-brand when creating a presentation with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Nummer:MC1024405
Status:planForChange

Coming soon for Microsoft PowerPoint: Users will be able to create presentations with Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint with your organization’s brand images in two ways:

  • With an organizational asset library (OAL) in Microsoft SharePoint
  • With a Templafy library (a third-party solution)

NOTE: You can choose either option, both options, or neither option. The current image default option in PowerPoint is Microsoft 365 images. If you take no action, your users will continue to have access to these Microsoft 365 images.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 475055 and Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 475064.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature.

This message applies to PowerPoint for Windows desktop, PowerPoint for Mac desktop, and PowerPoint for the web.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Connecting your OAL to Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint:

After this rollout: As an admin, after you connect your OAL, hosted on SharePoint, to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot, your users will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images. Users will have a toggle to use branded images from your OAL and/or Microsoft 365 images.

To use your OAL with Microsoft 365 Copilot, you will need to:

  1. Create an organization assets library for your company’s brand assets
  2. Run a Microsoft PowerShell command to connect your image OAL to Copilot.
  3. Make sure the images in your asset library have robust metadata (keywords, title, and alt-text) so they are searchable

Connecting Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint:

After this rollout: As an admin, after you connect your asset library hosted by Templafy to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot, your users will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images.

Users will have a toggle to use branded images from your organization’s library in Templafy and/or Microsoft 365 images.

To use your brand images with Microsoft 365 Copilot, you will need to:

  1. Have a Templafy account for your company’s brand assets
  2. Enable Microsoft Graph Connector to establish the Copilot connection in your company’s Templafy account setting. Learn more: How to enable Microsoft Graph Connector for Templafy Image Library – Templafy Help center
  3. Make sure the images in your asset library have robust metadata (keywords, title, and alt-text) so they are searchable

To use brand images in PowerPoint, users can select the Copilot icon in the top left of any slide and choose Create a new presentation:

user controls

On the next screen, users enter a prompt to ask Copilot to build the slide outline. After Copilot responds, users can scroll down to Image settings: Only use images from my organization and turn on the toggle to access the images from the OAL or Templafy. The message next to the toggle says, “Images from your organization will be used when turned on. When off, images from both Microsoft 365 and your organization will be used”:

user controls

The new features will be available by default for admins to configure for their users. With this rollout, Copilot will first use images from your organization library before using Microsoft 365 images as backup. Users have the option to use only on-brand images by turning on the image settings. However, if you do not wish for Copilot to use any Microsoft 365 images when creating a presentation, send an email to [email protected]. NOTE: Disabling all Microsoft 365 images will severely impact the Copilot output for creating presentations. We recommend considering this option only if you have more than 1,000 images with robust metadata in your image library.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

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

Learn more

[Reminder] Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Change to Microsoft Entra ID Protection alerts
Category:Microsoft Defender XDR
Nummer:MC1024406
Status:planForChange

Following several previous notifications in 2024, Microsoft Entra ID Protection alerts will no longer be available in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps experiences starting March 5, 2025.

As part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps integration into Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Entra ID Protection alerts will no longer be available in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps experiences, but they continue to be fully integrated into Microsoft Defender XDR experiences. These alerts can be found in the Microsoft Defender portal’s Incidents & alerts section, aggregated with other alerts from different Microsoft security solutions like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and more. Learn more about how to configure the Entra IP alert service in the Microsoft Defender portal: Investigate alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR – Microsoft Defender XDR | Microsoft Learn

[How this will affect your organization:]

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using or have previously used Entra ID Protection alerts in Defender for Cloud Apps.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically starting from the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more

Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.25031.00000 for EUR
Category:Microsoft Dataverse
Nummer:MC1024845
Status:stayInformed
We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dataverse environment hosted in EUR.

This service update will occur within your region’s scheduled maintenance timeline, on the scheduled date listed for Microsoft Dataverse.

How does this affect me?
The version number for your Microsoft Dataverse environment will update to version 9.2.25031.00000 or higher.

There is no expected degradation to service performance or availability, however, during this maintenance window users may see short, intermittent impact such as transient SQL errors or a redirect to the login screen.

What action do I need to take?
This message is for awareness and no action is required.
(Updated) Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word
Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Nummer:MC866452
Status:stayInformed

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

When you open a document, Copilot for Microsoft 365 for Microsoft Word will generate a summary in the window at the top of the Word document. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397096.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late May 2025 (previously late February). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will see a new UI between the canvas and the ribbon in Word supporting a summary of the document created by Copilot for Microsoft 365. This UI can be collapsed if the user does not want to see the summary.

Fully expanded:

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Semi-expanded:

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This new feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

End User documentation:

(Updated) Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management- Risky AI usage
Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) Microsoft Purview
Nummer:MC947048
Status:planForChange

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

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out risky AI usage detections

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394281

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete by late August (previously late February). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and ChatGPT Enterprise. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Below are some of the steps admin can take

  1. Get insights into risky AI usage at an organization level in an anonymized form using analytics
  2. Create Risky AI usage policy to track risky prompts and sensitive responses in M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio
  3. The activity explorer in alerts gives a single threaded view of prompt, response along with the sensitive information present
  4. Use the new Generative AI indicators in adaptive protection for user risk score

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. 

Main Admin link: Learn about insider risk management policy templates | Microsoft Learn

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: AI enabled file summaries on Teams mobile
Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Nummer:MC954674
Status:stayInformed

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

Quickly get an AI summary of Microsoft Word, PPT, and PDF files that were shared in chat and channels on the Teams mobile app without leaving the flow of work. Users can tap the summary icon on the file and get a summary generated by AI. Now users can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document on a small mobile screen.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422318.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late January 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (late February).

[How this will affect your organization:]

All Word, PPT, and PDF files shared in chat and channels in the Teams mobile app will have an AI summary icon in the file chiclet. Users can tap the summary icon on the file chiclet to view the summary generated by AI. With this feature, users can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document. Users can close the screen once the summary is consumed.

This feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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