Updated September 30, 2026: We have updated the content timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Viva Engage will stop sending email notifications to users who do not have a valid mailbox or routable email destination. Previously, email notifications could still be attempted for these users, resulting in repeated delivery retries, increased load on email systems, and, in some cases, delays to important business communications. This change reduces unnecessary email traffic, improves delivery efficiency, and helps ensure important communications are delivered reliably and on time. Users with supported mailbox configurations, including cloud mailboxes, on-premises mailboxes, shared mailboxes, and other routable email destinations, will continue to receive Viva Engage email notifications as expected. Notifications delivered through supported channels such as Microsoft Teams rema
Microsoft Viva · Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Updated October 20, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Intelligent summaries in Copilot Dashboard help you quickly understand what’s driving Copilot adoption in your organization. These AI‑generated insights highlight key usage trends, areas of success, and opportunities where focused attention can accelerate value. Suggested prompts guide deeper exploration of underlying drivers and adoption patterns. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 557681. [When this will happen] General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout will begin in November 2026 (previously mid-August) and is expected to complete by end of November 2026 (previously late September). [How this will affect your organization] Who is affected Admins using the Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard in Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 What will happen Intelligent summaries will
Microsoft Viva · Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Updated October 20, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] To support deeper analysis of Copilot agent adoption and usage across your organization, Microsoft will introduce a new export capability in the Agent Dashboard. This feature will allow eligible users to download de‑identified Copilot agent usage data for analysis, helping organizations track adoption trends, optimize licensing, and support AI transformation strategies, while maintaining existing privacy and access controls. User identifiers are removed from the output. This feature will require at least 50 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and will apply to the Viva Insights web app. This message is related to Roadmap ID 560538. [When this will happen] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in late May 2026 and expect to complete rollout by early June 2026. General Availability (Worldwide
Updated October 19, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] We are improving the Microsoft Teams meeting experience when the active meeting window is minimized. This update helps users stay engaged in meetings while multitasking across other apps. With this change, users can perform key in-meeting actions—such as raising their hand and sending reactions—without restoring the full Teams meeting window. Users can also choose between two different minimized views, depending on how much meeting context they want to keep visible while they work. This change does not affect the experience when users are sharing their screen in a Teams meeting. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop. It is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 557179. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: Rollout begins mid-May 2026 (previously
Updated October 19, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] To help organizations deliver more polished and branded town hall events, Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability for organizers and presenters to upload custom background images in the Manage what attendees see experience. This enhancement allows teams to replace default backgrounds with branded visuals—such as company logos or event-specific designs—so presenters and shared content appear consistently on brand for attendees. This feature is available for Teams events organizers with a Teams Enterprise license. This update applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Mac desktop. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 561493. [When this will happen] Targeted Release: Rollout begins in early June 2026 (previously late May)and is expected to complete by early June 2026 (pre
Updated July 13, 2026: We have paused rollout of this feature at this time. We will provide an update via Message center when we are ready to proceed. We apologize for any inconvenience. [Introduction] Consecutive Interpretation is a new interpretation mode available as an add‑on to the existing Interpreter agent in Microsoft Teams. It enables structured multilingual conversations in meetings by providing shared, meeting‑level interpretation when enabled by a Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed user. This mode uses consecutive (turn‑by‑turn) interpretation, meaning participants speak one at a time and each speaker's words are interpreted before the next speaker begins. This structured flow reduces overlap, improves interpretation accuracy, and helps everyone stay aligned in real time. Consecutive Interpretation is ideal for back‑and‑forth, interactive discussions where participants need to re
Updated October 16, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. We’re introducing the ability for organizations to customize Microsoft 365 profile cards by adding up to 10 custom properties sourced from external systems such as HR platforms. This enhancement helps enrich user profiles with relevant organizational details, improving discoverability and context for collaboration. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 529851. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in November 2026 (previously October) and expect to complete in November 2026 (previously October). How this affects your organization Who is affected: Microsoft 365 tenant admins managing user profile cards What will happen: You can add up to 10 custom properties to profile cards using Microsoft Graph People connectors. Properties can be sourced f
Updated October 16, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Teams Events invite emails will be separated based on the role of the participant. Event organizers will get an email explaining the specific roles of participants in the event. Similarly, each presenter will get a separate calendar invite, allowing the organizers of town halls to maintain separate invites for attendees. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 476488. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early December 2026 (previously early November) and expect to complete by mid-December 2026 (previously mid-November). General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2026 (previously mid-November) and expect to complete by mid-January 2027 (previously mid-December) [How this will affect your organization:]
Updated October 15, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction:] We’re introducing a simpler way to view conversations in Viva Engage communities, organized by recent posts rather than recent activity. This new view is designed to make it easier for users to follow discussions and will be available as an option, alongside the current system, for those who prefer sorting by recent activity and filtering to new conversations only. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 513275. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in October 2026 and expect to complete by the end of October 2026. [How this will affect your organization:] This change should align better with how people expect to browse and engage with content in their communities, while still preserving the triage flow for those who prefer i
Microsoft Viva · Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Updated October 15, 2026: We have refreshed the public preview details, knowledge-source configuration, and analytics information. The general availability date will be announced in a future update. We apologize for any inconvenience. [Introduction] Agent in Viva Engage communities are now available in Public Preview. Community admins can add agents to communities to help draft answers to questions without best or verified answers based on community content and add context to posts by answering follow up questions using the community's conversations and SharePoint site and library. We’re now adding the option for community admins to specify additional SharePoint sites outside the community as grounding sources. The agent will only use sites that community admins select, and it drafts answers from items that community members can view (Read). We are also adding a new capability: tagging b
Updated October 15, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Microsoft Teams is introducing two new system chat sections called Muted chats and Meeting chats. These sections allow users to organize their chat and channels list by grouping muted conversations and meeting chats into dedicated sections that users can turn on or off. The new Meeting chats section will replace the Meeting chats filter, that was previously available at the top of the chat and channel list. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 559605. [When this will happen] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Rollout begins in early November 2026 (previously mid-October) and is expected to complete by mid-November 2026 (previously end of October). [How this affects your organization] Who is affected All Microsoft Teams users in Microsoft 365 tenants,
Microsoft Viva · Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Updated October 15, 2026: We have updated the timeline. This post has also been updated to remind customers that this feature is default-on for Copilot Dashboard users with full company-level data access. The export output remains de-identified, with each user represented by a hashed ID. Please review and take any actions as appropriate for your organization. Thank you for your patience. This MC post is associated with Roadmap ID 500872. [Introduction:] To support deeper analysis of Copilot adoption, Microsoft is introducing a new export capability in the Copilot Dashboard. This feature allows dashboard users with company-level access to download de-identified Copilot usage metrics, aggregated by user and week, from the past six months. Organizations can use this data to track adoption trends, optimize licensing, and support AI transformation strategies. This feature requires at least 50