Microsoft 365 admin center introduces a new request and approval system for agent access, allowing users to request agents directly from the Agent Store. Admins can centrally manage and control approvals via the Copilot > Agents & connectors page. Rollout starts mid-August through early September, with no setup needed.
Microsoft Teams is enhancing private channels by increasing limits to 1000 channels per team and 5000 members per channel, enabling meetings, and shifting compliance policies from user mailboxes to team group mailboxes. Migration starts late September 2025; admins must update policies by September 20, 2025.
Microsoft Defender and Exchange Online will allow users to view and restore temporarily deleted quarantine messages starting mid-August 2025 (worldwide). This feature is on by default, requires no configuration, and helps improve message recovery without affecting permanently deleted items.
We are announcing the ability to apply dimension defaulting configuration rules to automatically get financial dimensions from contract lines or the related project for expense lines in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This feature will reach general availability on September 12, 2025.
Users can include an email in their prompt as a reference by typing ‘/’ and selecting one from the ContextIQ menu. Copilot Chat will reference the included email as part of its response. This feature applies to users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (Copilot Chat users) and to users with a license (Microsoft 365 Copilot users) when they are toggled to web scope in chat.
Users can now use the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows for real-time notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings using AI. In hybrid meetings, the agent appears in the notes panel. For in-person meetings, a participant can scan the QR code on the display in the room to invoke the agent as the group’s assistant.
A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes.
Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks.
Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increasing protection against malware attacks.
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