Viva Glint will refresh its Country & Region external benchmark suites for 2025. These updated benchmarks provide organizations with more accurate and current comparative insights into employee feedback across geographies, enabling better-informed decisions and more relevant action planning.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that enables Mac users to share their screen or specific windows using the built-in native macOS sharing experience. This is Mac only, user opt-in experience.
The new page in the Pro Management portal provides proactive recommendations based on your organization’s environment and upcoming events that can impact devices, such as support or certification expirations. Admins are prompted to update device and account data enabling rich insights from the portal, and guidance based on space and device usage data is coming soon. This feature helps admins maintain smooth operations and plan and budget efficiently. At least one Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Devices license is required for access.
It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms.
Today, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view the permissions requested by an app or agent—these permissions define what organizational data the app can access. This feature enhances that experience by showing the risk rating of each permission and the overall privilege level of the app or agent, helping admins better secure organizational data and make faster, more informed approval decisions.
We’re adding a new set of image effects to Microsoft 365 Copilot that make it easy to enhance your visuals. Whether you’re using AI-generated images or uploading your own, you can apply these effects in the Create experience or directly in Copilot Chat to make your content stand out.
A new Microsoft Fabric tenant setting will make the “Set alert” button visible to all Power BI web users, enabling them to create Fabric Activator alerts if permitted. Rollout starts September 14, 2025, with default enablement by October 13, 2025. Admins can manage this setting beforehand.
Microsoft Teams will enable admins to assign custom external access policies by user or group, allowing specific control over which external domains they can interact with. This feature, available from September 2025, supports five policy options and will be manageable via PowerShell initially, then through the Teams admin center UI.
Starting early October 2025, Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s Streaming API and Sentinel EmailEvents table will store both current and historical email verdicts and locations, showing multiple records per email. Admins should update queries and dashboards accordingly, using KQL’s arg_max to retrieve the latest records.
The Manage interest feature in Viva Learning will be retired and replaced by Manage People Skills by December 31, 2025. Existing interest data will be deleted, and admins should enable and prepare for Manage People Skills before the transition. No compliance issues are identified.
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