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Teams Town Hall now matches Teams Live Events in features, offering enhanced controls and attendee experiences. Users are encouraged to transition to Town Hall, as it supports large-scale virtual events and will replace Live Events in the future. Enable IT policies to prepare for this change.
Microsoft 365 LTI, a unified integration for LMS platforms like Canvas and Moodle, will be generally available worldwide on September 15, 2025. It streamlines access to Microsoft 365 tools within LMS, replaces retired Teams LTI tools, and requires admin deployment and communication for a smooth transition.
Starting October 2025, Microsoft Edge on Windows will default to an Adobe-powered PDF viewer for enterprise users, improving performance, accessibility, and features. Rollout completes by March 2026. Admins can manage this via policies, with opt-out available until June 2026. No action needed if ready.
Support for Office 2016, Office 2019, Visio 2016/2019, Project 2016/2019, and related apps ends October 14, 2025. After this, no updates or support will be provided, risking security, compliance, and performance. Upgrading to Microsoft 365 Apps or Office LTSC 2024 is recommended.
Microsoft Teams now supports SlimCore-based optimization for Citrix VDI, offering better performance and new features. Admins must update Citrix Studio policies to whitelist virtual channels (MSTEAMS, MSTEAM1, MSTEAM2) and deploy the Citrix Plugin. WebRTC optimization will be deprecated in the future.
Microsoft Defender for Identity will add new Secure Score improvement actions by late 2025 to better identify identity risks. These include identifying privileged service accounts, removing stale AD accounts, and disabling Entra Seamless SSO. No admin action is needed, but review configurations and notify security teams.
Viva Amplify in SharePoint enables users with licenses to distribute news posts across Outlook, Teams, Viva Engage, and SharePoint sites from a single interface. It auto-optimizes content, offers engagement analytics, and rolls out from late September to mid-October 2025, requiring no admin action unless updating guidance.
To help organizations manage metered consumption costs for SharePoint Agents and Copilot Tuning, we are introducing support for Capacity Packs in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC). This feature allows global administrators to use prepaid message subscriptions before incurring pay-as-you-go (PAYG) charges. Each Capacity Pack provides 25,000 Copilot messages per month, which can be allocated to Copilot Chat environments via the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC). Once enabled, MAC will prioritize consumption from these prepaid packs and automatically switch to PAYG when the pack is exhausted. Admins can monitor usage in PPAC, including: • Total messages consumed • Remaining prepaid capacity • Message allocation per environment Key Benefits: • Streamlined billing setup in MAC • Reduced risk of overage charges • Automated environment provisioning for Copilot Chat • Improved cost visibility and governance
This feature enables IT Administrators in Teams admin center to view and easily filter apps and agents by specific industry standards, certifications and compliance attributes such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. This will help with more streamlined app evaluation workflows, enabling faster decisions and broader access to trusted apps across the organization.
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