The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner and the power of Project into a single and simple solution that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions.
Site owners can now apply multi-color themes to their sites. These themes can be offered by Microsoft, created by the brand manager in the brand center, or by the site owners themselves using the new Site branding feature.
We are announcing the Azure AI Search index as a knowledge source feature for Copilot Studio. This feature will allow makers to build Copilots that use pre-built Azure AI Search indexes as knowledge for more relevant, accurate, and grounded responses. This feature will reach general availability on May 15, 2025.
We are announcing the Create and edit expressions feature for Power Automate. This feature allows you to create, edit, and fix your Power Automate expressions by expressing your requirements in natural language. This feature will reach general availability on May 14, 2025.
We are announcing the new Power Platform admin center. This new user interface will offer several key business values to drive operational efficiency and effective governance for admins. This will reach general availability on May 19, 2025.
We are announcing the readiness page for the Power Platform admin center. This will enable admins to learn about security, privacy, and data governance. Resources and documents to help admins better understand how Copilot works, data and security fundamentals for Copilot features, and Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles will be available in the readiness page. This feature will be gradually rolled out for general availability starting on May 19, 2025.
We are launching a new page in the Copilot hub that allows admins to view usage and value metrics for Copilot Studio agents in the Power Platform admin center (PPAC). This feature will start to gradually roll out as generally available on May 19, 2025.
We are announcing the Plan designer, a copilot-first development tool, which enables users to quickly create comprehensive business solutions. The Plan designer generates a complete Power Platform solution tailored to your needs, including Dataverse tables, canvas apps, model-driven apps, and suggested Power Automate flows. This feature was made available for public preview starting on December 15, 2024, and will reach general availability on May 19, 2025.
Classic Microsoft Teams will be unavailable on Mac and Windows desktops starting July 1, 2025. Users must upgrade to the new Teams or use Teams on the web to avoid disruptions. Use the provided script to identify devices needing upgrades and follow the prerequisites for installation.
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