Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot

When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template.

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Microsoft 365 App: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC-H and DoD

The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps and services. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to “Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise”.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/admin-center/overview-cloud-policy

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365):  AI Admin role has permissions to manage agents

As an AI Admin, you manage agents with various capabilities including creating and overseeing Copilot connections that index data in Graph and perform actions, controlling which makers can build these connections and regulating the data sources used, maintaining observability over all connections, approving or denying agents, pre-installing them without requiring consent, and viewing them in Microsoft 365 admin center integrated apps page.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules for scenarios like auto publishing Microsoft 365 certified agents and perform bulk cleanup of unused agents.

Admins will have the ability to set up rules for various scenarios, such as automatically publishing all Microsoft 365 certified agents and performing bulk cleanups of agents that are no longer in use.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Administrator will be able to manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard settings

Expanding the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard admin settings to AI Administrator role which is the newly announced Entra role. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt with a co-worker

Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.

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Microsoft Edge: Monitoring in the Edge management service

The Edge management service offers an overview of insights about your managed Edge instances and suggests actions you can take. For out-of-date devices, you can easily schedule updates or notify users to update their browsers to avoid workflow interruptions.

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Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android

Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers.

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SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators

Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.

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Microsoft Teams: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance

This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator—assigned by the compliance department—is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting, the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions.

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