Important Microsoft update: Week 18 / 2025

There is a total of 68 important Microsoft updates / notification with a description of 0 new features 💗 and a total of 0 notification which could impact Users 👁‍🗨

In this week’s Microsoft IT news, we have some exciting updates regarding new features that are set to enhance user experience and operational efficiency across various platforms. First up, Microsoft Teams is introducing a feature that allows participants to edit their display names during meetings. This temporary change will enable users to present themselves in a way that suits the context of the meeting, without altering their original names in the system. Next, Dynamics 365 Contact Center is rolling out a shift swapping feature, empowering customer service representatives to manage their schedules more flexibly. This will allow them to trade shifts directly with colleagues, ensuring that staffing levels are maintained while accommodating personal preferences. Lastly, Microsoft is enhancing the Dynamics 365 Contact Center with automated and manual scheduling capabilities. This feature will optimize workforce coverage by allowing businesses to assign service representatives to shifts based on forecasted demand, significantly improving operational efficiency. Stay tuned for more details on these exciting updates!

Content this week

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Edit your display name in meetings

Planner Limited Microsoft Planner Functionality for Shared Mailbox Users

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Shift swapping for customer service representatives

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Automated and manual scheduling for shift plans

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Create and manage shift plans for effective staffing and service coverage

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Create and analyze forecast scenarios for case and conversation volumes

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Introducing the Manage time-off requests feature

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Shift bidding for customer service representatives

Microsoft Dataverse Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.25043.00000 for EUR

Microsoft Power Automate Power Automate – Save flow for future retrieval with designer resiliency

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Goals: Optional in-product retirement announcement banner

Power BI Microsoft Fabric: Changes to tenant admin setting that governs the access of service principals to public APIs

SharePoint Online SharePoint Online: New document library template type “Resume repository” for resume organization and hiring

SharePoint Online Microsoft SharePoint: Customize your sites with multi-color themes

Power BI Microsoft Fabric: Changes to delegation capabilities for Microsoft Azure OpenAI tenant settings

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft events from Teams Rooms on Windows

Microsoft 365 Apps Changes to how users install Microsoft 365 apps from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use capacity planning to predict your staffing needs

OneDrive for Business OneDrive: ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Engage: Report conversations feature in new admin center

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Native Bluetooth call controls using hands-free protocol for multiple peripheral devices

Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Improvements to threat protection capabilities

Power Platform Power Platform admin center – New and coming soon page announcement

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Business Central – Migrate record links and notes with cloud migration tooling

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Edit business rules for omnichannel AI agents

Power Platform Copilot Studio – Connect your data to Azure OpenAI for generative answers

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Route to least active representatives in messaging channels

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Real-time adherence monitoring for service representatives

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: New compromised user context in Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Ability to rename policy and rules

OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive: New PDF compression feature

Microsoft Viva Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint: Viva Glint admin can enable Copilot for the Company admin user role

Power Platform Microsoft Copilot Studio – User like or dislike reactions to agent response available in Copilot Studio Analytics

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams Premium: Moderator-governed meetings for information barrier compliance

Power Platform Microsoft Copilot Studio – Connect to external sources in agents through Single Sign-On

Microsoft Power Automate Power Automate – Integrate Copilot in Process Mining analysis

Power Platform Microsoft Copilot Studio – Add suggested prompts to custom agents

Microsoft 365 Apps Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Copilot Pages content in a Word document

Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Viva Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills will be available starting in May

Microsoft 365 suite (Highlight) Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for unlicensed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users (Wave 2 Spring release)

Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 for the web New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters

Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Viva New Service Plan: People Skills – Foundation

Microsoft 365 suite OneNote Pages in M365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI Apps and agents

Microsoft 365 Apps Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word

Microsoft Defender XDR Action Required – Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Network Configurations Changes

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Pulse: Customize and display your internal usage guidelines for authors and responders

Microsoft 365 suite Additional breakdown metrics by app for Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat standalone report

Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft Defender XDR services: Deploy the New Defender for Identity sensor on Microsoft Entra Connect servers

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Use shift bookings to assign conversations

Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for web: Enhanced File menu and easier file renaming

Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Purview Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint: Protect sensitive files with dynamic watermarking

Microsoft Dataverse Microsoft Dataverse – Add Dataverse as enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio

Power Platform Power Platform – Planned maintenance

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) spaces

Microsoft Teams Action required: Classic Microsoft Teams end of availability starts July 1, 2025

Power Platform Copilot Studio – Introducing the Azure AI Search index as knowledge source feature

Finance and Operations Apps Third Reminder Finance and Operations Apps – Dataverse will be mandatory for all new and existing F&O deployments

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings and calls for Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet

Microsoft 365 Apps, SharePoint Online Microsoft SharePoint Online eSignature for Microsoft Word

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | ​Data Loss Prevention: Restrict Copilot in Office from processing labeled content

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Pop out live captions and Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Easily call in a presenter from the roster for town halls and webinars

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings and calls

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Engage: Analytics data retention will be 18 months instead of 24 months

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Policy tuning analysis for priority content only policies

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