Microsoft Authenticator will streamline same-device sign-ins by removing number entry, allowing users to simply confirm sign-in. The First Run Experience is improved by prioritizing Microsoft Entra accounts and highlighting QR code scanning. Rollout begins mid-September 2025 with no admin action required.
Starting August 2025, Teams admins must complete a one-time KYC onboarding in the Teams Admin Center with business info and documents before provisioning new phone numbers. The process, taking hours to two days, applies globally and does not affect existing numbers or require specific licenses.
Microsoft Viva Engage is changing its email sender domains from @yammer.com to @engage.mail.microsoft, starting August 2025 for U.S. tenants and completing by October 2025 globally. This update includes tenant-specific prefixes for enhanced security and requires admins to update any custom email rules or integrations referencing the old domains.
Starting on July 21, 2025, the prebuilt model invoice processing and invoices document type (built on Azure Document Intelligence 4.0) will begin using v4.0 (GA) in AI Builder.
You can save a meeting as a draft on your calendar if you aren’t ready to send the meeting invites. When composing an event with at least one attendee added, select dismiss and then select Save as a Draft. The draft event will show on your calendar as [Draft] along with the title of the event.
Microsoft’s native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from Word & PDF documents in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the documents leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft. This capability will be now be available in all markets with the exception of China, Indonesia and Türkiye.
Authors will have new options when starting surveys, including choosing to send without pre-defining an audience, and feedback can instead be gathered by sharing a link that people can access the survey and respond through, sending a survey without a specified end date, allowing for longer-term data collection and multiple responses from recipients over time, and collecting identified responses, where answers are attributed to the person who submitted them.
The Clipchamp start page new unified hub is a revamped video hub start page experience of a single video destination for creation, discovery & consumption.
Custom scripting will be disabled by default for certain SharePoint Online templates starting September 15, 2025. Users can manage site property bag values without enabling custom scripting. Creation of new classic publishing site collections and activation of publishing features will be restricted. Existing sites remain unaffected.
Microsoft is updating the order of the “Add Shortcut to OneDrive” and “Sync” commands in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries to improve usability. This change will roll out from late July to mid-August 2025 and requires no action from users. Update internal documentation accordingly.
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