Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter and blogs updates from 26-03-2025

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: IRM analysts will be able to identify if a user being investigated has any compromised user alerts in Microsoft Entra. The new visibility will help the analyst formulate the right response action, such as escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420938.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections:

• Sign-in risk detections: Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in
• User risk detections: Compromise risk associated with a specific user

After this rollout:

• Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline in the alert investigation experience.
• Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider Risk Management alerts.

To access the new risk detections, go to Microsoft Purview portal > Settings > Insider Risk Management > Policy indicators > Built-in Indicators. Scroll down to Microsoft Entra ID Protection indicators, open the dropdown menu and select the applicable indicators:

When you create a policy, you will find Microsoft Entra ID Protection indicators on the Indicators page:

This change will be available 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. 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.

• Insider risk management admins can opt into risk detections from Insider Risk Management global settings.
• Insider risk management admins need to opt into risk detection in Insider Risk Management policies.

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.

Learn more

• What are risks in Microsoft Entra ID Protection – Microsoft Entra ID Protection | Microsoft Learn
• Configure policy indicators in insider risk management | Microsoft Learn

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Agent UX, previously available on Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop and web, is now being enabled on mobile endpoints. This new feature will allow end-users to discover installed agents, add new agents, and chat with agents in mobile Copilot on Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and the Copilot app (formerly Microsoft 365 app).

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

• Discover: Users can now easily find and interact with agents that are already installed from Copilot desktop and web.
• Add: The new Agent UX allows users to add new agents from the store on mobile.
• Use: Users can interact and chat with agents in mobile Copilot on Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.

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.

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: Microsoft Viva Amplify will support authors uploading a list of emails as a .csv, .xlsx, or .txt file, to make it easier for authors to reach audiences by email in Microsoft Outlook.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 477369.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

This update will streamline the process for communicators to send messages to their Outlook audiences using Viva Amplify. Instead of manually typing email addresses one by one, communicators can now upload a file containing the email addresses, which will automatically resolve. Please note that the recipient limit remains at 200 email addresses total, regardless of how email addresses are entered.

In Viva Amplify, authors will see a new Import from file button in the Add audience: Outlook selection panel:

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.

Learn more: Preview and customize a Viva Amplify publication – Microsoft Support (will be updated before rollout)

• This update improves File Explorer accessibility text scaling. Adjust text size in Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
• This update includes “Top cards”, an easy way to view your PC’s key specifications, including processor, RAM, storage, and GPU. “Top cards” appear under Settings > System > About.
• The Gamepad keyboard layout is now available for the touch keyboard.
• This update includes a new system tray icon on the taskbar that improves emoji and panel discoverability.
• This update changes how Task Manager calculates CPU usage. It will use standard metrics to display CPU workload consistently across all pages and align with industry standards and third-party tools.

• Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2: KB5053657
• Windows 10, version 22H2: KB5053643

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Engage: We are excited to announce the launch of the new Communications Dashboard designed to inform and accelerate execution across the communications lifecycle. The dashboard is accessible to corporate communicators, network admins and higher-level roles from the left panel in Engage.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 478656.

This message applies to:

• Engage app on the desktop (as a progressive web app)
• Engage app in Microsoft Outlook (new Outlook for Windows desktop, Outlook for the web, and new Outlook for Mac desktop)
• Engage app in Microsoft Teams (Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web)

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout: Corporate communicators access campaign and leader/audience management features through the classic Microsoft Yammer admin center.

After this rollout, corporate communicators will be able to access all features available to them, such as campaign management, analytics, leader and audience management, and quick links to delegate management and official communities from the Dashboard in the left panel of Engage. Also, we have introduced new features:

• A single view on the Comms activity tab of all Featured conversations in Engage with featured by dates.
• Enhancements to the Keyword monitoring feature and a new Moderation agent, available to corporate communicators with access to the Advanced moderation tab. For more information, please refer to keyword monitoring feature enhancements Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 478658) and moderation agent (Microsoft Roadmap ID 478657).
• The ability for corporate communicators to view the list of delegates assigned to a leader through the Leader and audiences tab.

The features available in the Viva Engage admin center before this rollout will continue to be available after the rollout for now. The assignment of corporate communicators will continue to be managed through the admin center.

This dashboard will be available by default. The dashboard will continue to evolve as we iterate and enhance its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates.

[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.

Network admins, verified admins, and Engage admins can assign new or existing corporate communicators with Advanced moderation access from the Role management page in the Engage admin center. This granular permission to the corporate communicator role is disabled by default and must be specifically enabled to facilitate moderation.

Learn more

We will update these documents before rollout:

• Manage admin roles in Viva Engage | Microsoft Learn
• Manage Viva Engage data compliance | Microsoft Learn

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

1. Navigate to PPAC and sign in.
2. Select Manage Environments.
3. Select an environment to see the ‘last activity’ information.

We will soon relocate the Microsoft Viva Engage keyword monitoring feature from the classic Microsoft Yammer admin center to a central Advanced moderation experience in the new Viva Engage Communications Dashboard, as communicated in MC1041122 Microsoft Viva Engage: New Communications Dashboard (published March 2025). Network admins, verified admins, and corporate communicators with Advanced moderation access (a granular permission in the corporate communicator role that must be explicitly enabled) will be able to add and monitor keywords in the new location.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 478658.

This message applies to:

• Engage app on the desktop (as a progressive web app)
• Engage app in Microsoft Outlook (new Outlook for Windows desktop, Outlook for the web, and new Outlook for Mac desktop)
• Engage app in Microsoft Teams (Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web)

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout:

• If your organization has monitored keywords in the previous experience, all keywords will be available in the new destination in the Communications Dashboard.
• Engage will continue to support regex formatting functionality to help with keyword specificity. Learn more about supported formats at Manage Viva Engage data compliance | Microsoft Learn.
• Admins and corporate communicators can designate an email recipient to receive keyword monitoring email notifications.
• All detected conversations with keywords will be visible in the Advanced moderation tab. Admins and corporate communicators can view all public conversations and all private conversations they have access to if those threads are associated with monitored keywords. From the Advanced moderation tab, moderators can review these conversations or act on them (mute, close, delete, or dismiss from review). Reviewed conversations are available on the Advanced moderation page for 30 days, providing transparency into all tasks performed across moderators.
• Organizations that have never used keyword monitoring can access the experience in the new destination and begin using this feature.

Keyword monitoring from the Advanced moderation tab in the Communications dashboard:

This change will be on 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. 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.

Network admins, verified admins, and Engage admins can assign new or existing corporate communicators with Advanced moderation access from the Role management page in the Engage admin center. This granular permission in the corporate communicator role is disabled by default. This permission must be specifically enabled to facilitate moderation.

Learn more

We will update these documents before rollout:

• Manage admin roles in Viva Engage | Microsoft Learn
• Manage Viva Engage data compliance | Microsoft Learn

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

Updated February 21, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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

Coming soon in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins will be able to deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed, and team owners can also add frontline workers or remove them from teams. This rollout will allow admins to take advantage of dynamic rules to keep teams updated as members join and leave the organization and also give team owners the autonomy to manage membership at the team level.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 410774.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 (previously early October) and expect to complete by late October 2024 (previously mid-October).

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 (previously mid-October) and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously late January).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, admins are able to:

• Create location-based dynamic frontline teams where team membership is strictly managed with dynamic rules.
• Identify frontliner workers in their organization with a Microsoft Entra attribute and value pairings in the Deploy Teams at Scale tool.
• Assign a single team owner for all frontline teams.

After this rollout, admins will be able to:

• Create location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed with dynamic rules, while respecting manual changes made by team owners.
• Identify frontline workers in their organization with dynamic groups in the Deploy Teams at Scale tool.
• Assign multiple individuals in the organization as team owners of frontline teams.

After this rollout, team owners will be able to:

• Add or remove frontline workers at their frontline locations if they are assigned team owner of their team.

This feature is on by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Review the documentation:

• How to find the best frontline team solution for your organization – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn
• Deploy frontline dynamic teams at scale – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft Teams frontline usage report – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn

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.

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The order of folders in Microsoft Outlook mobile will now sync to match the folder order on Outlook web, Mac, and Windows platforms. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422816.

[When this will happen:]

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

Users will now see an updated folder order on their mobile devices that reflects the folder order on Outlook web and desktop platforms. If users want to re-order the folders, they must do so on Outlook for the web, Mac, and Windows devices, as folder re-ordering is currently not supported on mobile devices. 

This feature is on by default and cannot be turned off. 

[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.

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: We are pleased to inform you that Microsoft 365 Copilot will have access to question posts in Microsoft Viva Engage public communities, including Answers, to assist in delivering pertinent responses to users’ inquiries. This message applies to Copilot on the web and Copilot on iOS/Android. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408166.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, users can ask Copilot questions about Viva Engage content and Copilot will respond. The Engage content that Copilot can reference is limited to Question posts from public communities, Answers, and Storylines.

In early 2025, we will gradually expand the Engage content sources to include Discussion posts from public communities and Storylines, followed by private communities.

This change will be available by default.

Viva Engage content in M365 Copilot:

[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.

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience..

Your Microsoft 365 subscription is being updated with a new service in your Outlook: Org Explorer. This organization chart helps your visualize your company’s internal structure and discover connections, roles, and responsibilities among you and other people across teams. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 421191.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide) for new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Web, and Outlook for Mac: We will begin rolling out in late-May 2025 (previously April 2025) and expect to complete by late-June 2025 (previously late-May 2025).

General Availability (Worldwide) for classic Outlook: We will begin rolling out in late-May 2025 (previously April 2025) and expect to take longer time to complete it than on other Outlook clients .

Note: The access to Org Explorer will depend on which Outlook service platform the user is using. Therefore, we recommend you switch to the new Outlook for Windows or Outlook for web to have early access to this new feature. 

[How this will affect your organization]

Once the new service is available for your organization, you can access the Org Explorer app via Outlook as below:

Is a Viva license still required to access Org Explorer?

After the rollout in starting from May 2025, Org Explorer will not require a Viva premium license. 

[What you need to do to prepare]

There is no action required now. The documentation of Introducing Org Explorer is going to be updated soon for additional information regarding Org Explorer.

Updated March 25, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

After further review, we are not able to proceed with these clouds: GCC High and DoD. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: Users can move emails between their accounts in the new Outlook for Windows, streamlining organization and productivity. For enterprise users, this feature is controlled by the Set-OWAMailboxPolicy policy managed by admins in Microsoft Exchange PowerShell. By enabling this policy, admins can grant their users the ability to move emails between accounts in a way that aligns with organizational needs and policies. With this rollout, we are introducing a new parameter called -ItemsToOtherAccountsEnabled for the Set-OWAMailboxPolicy policy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470018.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by early March 2025 (previously late February).

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

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late May 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The new parameter -ItemsToOtherAccountsEnabled controls whether users can move or copy their emails between accounts. By default, the value will be False, which means that the policy is disabled and users won’t be able to move emails between accounts unless an admin changes the policy to True.

If you enable this parameter, users will be able to move emails between accounts in these ways:

1. Dragging and dropping an email from one account to another

2. Using shortcuts:

• Copy: Ctrl C + Ctrl V
• Copy: Ctrl + Drag and drop
• Move: Drag and drop
• Move: Ctrl X + Ctrl V

3. Right-click an email and select Move or Copy from the menu (menu items only available if the policy is enabled)

[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: Set-OwaMailboxPolicy (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

#newoutlookforwindows

Updated March 24, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon in Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery: When you access any case via the eDiscovery (preview) new user experience, you will have the ability to generate and download a hit-by-term query report on a KQL (Keyword Query Language) query in your review sets. The report will include the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.

This public preview is only available in the new Microsoft Purview portal’s eDiscovery new user experience (preview). This feature is not available in the classic eDiscovery Premium user experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171751.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by early January 2025.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

This preview is available by default and won’t affect your organization’s current eDiscovery workflow.

To access this new report in eDiscovery (preview), go to Cases (preview) > Review sets and open a review set. On the Actions menu, select Query report (preview). Paste in your compound query to generate a hit-by-term report.

• Run hit-by-term reports on your keywords and compound queries (KQL) (locations with hits, hit count, hit %, volume) for items in a review set. 
• Download your hit-by-term reports into a .csv file.
• Quickly review the items with hits in a single view.

Create Query reports:

View Query reports:

[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.

Learn more: Use the Query Report to create keyword reports for KeyQL queries (preview) | Microsoft Learn