OneDrive enhancements simplify file management for departing employees by improving notifications, filtering, and enabling bulk file transfers that preserve sharing. Access transfers automatically to managers with email alerts. Rollout begins mid-October 2025, requiring no admin action but recommending informing stakeholders and updating documentation.
Starting October 3, 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Pay-as-you-go billing plans must be set up via the Microsoft 365 admin center, not the Power Platform admin center. Existing plans remain active, and there is no impact on user experience or compliance. Admins should prepare for this transition.
Starting mid-October 2025, Microsoft Teams admin center will display risk ratings for each app permission and an overall privilege level on the App details page. This helps admins assess data access risks without changing app enablement or blocking behavior. No action is required.
The “When Sending a Message” Group Policy in Classic Outlook for Windows will be retired by January 13, 2026. New individual policies will be introduced starting October 14, 2025, requiring admins to migrate and configure settings separately for more granular control.
We are announcing the ability to autonomously grow your pipeline with Sales Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales. This feature will reach general availability on November 1, 2025.
The new Outlook for web and Windows now offers expanded Conditional Formatting options, allowing you to highlight emails based on size, read/unread status, presence of attachments, flag settings, categories, or importance. These enhanced rules make it easier to identify critical messages at a glance and visually organize your folders. #newoutlookforwindows
When critical issues impact room functionality, users see a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
Tab Search helps users stay organized by letting them quickly find and reopen recently closed tabs or search across all open ones in a single view. From the same menu, they can also enable Vertical Tabs, access the AI-powered Organize Tabs feature, and open Workspaces.
New Create module within M365 Copilot App to access Word, Excel and PPT templates.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will be generally available for the GCC High environment, and it will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC High compliance boundary.
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