Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone

When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user’s file.

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Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Android

The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone

When users on iPhone choose the action to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file from a third party app (including Files) and choose Microsoft 365 Copilot as the target app, they will automatically be redirected to a Copilot Chat session in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app with the file summary populated. Users will then have the option to open a preview of the file, or continue their conversation with Copilot Chat.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Preview and chat with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone

When opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone, users will get a preview experience where they can use Copilot Chat to command and ask questions about the files directly in the preview. This enables immediate access to Copilot Chat in a user’s file.

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Microsoft Teams: Collaborate using Pages in Channels

We are bringing Pages to your Teams Channel experience. Create and collaborate using Pages directly in any of your channels.

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Outlook: File tab in Ribbon

The File tab provides new Outlook users with the ability to easily discover account info, settings, PSTs, and more directly from the ribbon.

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Collection policies support in IRM

With this update, IRM will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. For device indicators based IRM policy, required collection policies will be automatically created in the background. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Session Persistence Enhancement

This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress.

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Microsoft Teams: Raise hands in Town Hall

Currently in a Teams Town hall, attendees cannot raise their hands and share their microphone and camera as they can in a meeting. With this new update, town halls organized by users with Teams Premium will allow attendees to raise their hand like they would in a standard Teams meeting. The ability to raise a hand can signal to organizers and presenters, who can then bring attendees on screen to allow them to share their camera and microphone.

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Security Update: New Authentication Requirements for integration with Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module

Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module requires updated application permissions—RoleManagement.Read.Directory and GroupMember.Read.All—for Entra app authentication starting September 15, 2025. Organizations must review and update these permissions in Entra ID to avoid service disruption. No changes needed for delegated permissions.

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