Hands-On Microsoft 365 Pulse – Weekly Updates (Week 47)

By João Ferreira Nov 25, 2025 Pulse 0 Comments

Last week was packed! Microsoft Ignite dropped a flood of Microsoft 365 announcements, and honestly, it might have been the busiest week of the year. No surprise, AI and Copilot were front and center, and there’s still plenty to digest. I’ll be unpacking more over the next few weeks.

For now, I want to highlight two SharePoint updates that can really help with intranet adoption: SharePoint Page Agent and the new FAQs web part. If outdated content has been slowing you down, these tools make it easier than ever to keep things fresh and engaging!

And on a personal note, as someone who loves home automation, I’m thrilled about Hey Copilot. Being able to complete tasks with voice commands at work? That’s the same magic I use to turn on the lights or open the blinds at home. Game changer.

As always, there’s a bunch more to explore — check out the full list below. Let me know in the comments what your favorite update was this week, or what you’re hoping to see next. I’m curious to hear what caught your eye!

SharePoint

Microsoft dark themes for SharePoint sites

SharePoint: Document Libraries – A new forms experience for streamlined document collection

Streamline SharePoint publishing with new SharePoint page agent

App-only certificate-based authentication now available in SharePoint Online Management Shell

Copilot

New “Prepare” button added to the “Up Next” card for Microsoft 365 Copilot users

New features coming to Copilot Notebooks for Frontier users

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your Command Center for AI Success

Learning agent in Frontier

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Agents

New experiences for Copilot management in Microsoft 365 admin center

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Copy an agent in Copilot Studio Lite to the Copilot Studio full experience

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating with Copilot

New features coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit Scheduled prompts

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Navigation refresh in the M365 Copilot app

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Natural language support for Scheduling prompts

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data

Introducing Workforce Insights agent in Frontier for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot will support summarization and contextual grounding

Get ready for security agents: Microsoft Security Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 E5

Triage your Outlook mobile inbox hands-free with Microsoft 365 Copilot voice catch-up

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Copilot with OneDrive files in macOS activity center

Microsoft PowerPoint: Agent Mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents: A new Copilot experience for content creation

Microsoft 365 Apps admin center: Enhanced rollback capabilities in Cloud Update (public preview)

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Copilot AI Actions with OneDrive files in File Explorer

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – Chat & Search Browser Extension for Chrome

Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot settings – readiness

Microsoft 365 Copilot: OpenAI’s Sora 2 available for video generation

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 Model Selector

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Web tab

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot: “Hey Copilot” to start voice in Copilot on Windows devices

Updated UI for Copilot Chat entry point in Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chats in search results

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to Share with Summary for OneDrive files in Windows

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Query Bitbucket Pull Requests with Copilot Connectors

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Summarize and share OneDrive files in Windows using Copilot

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Now smarter with visuals: Declarative Agents leverage embedded images for richer, more accurate answers

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Simplify working with triggers and channels

Dataverse

Dataverse – Dataverse Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server general availability

Dataverse – Dataverse SDK for Python

Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Resolve issues autonomously with Customer Intent Agent

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Quality Evaluation Agent

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Analyze adherence history to optimize workforce planning

Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Contact customers proactively with personalized options

Excel

Excel: Python in Excel

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365: Modern Access Request and Access Denied web page

Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages now support Action Segments for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational Messages to support email delivery

Microsoft 365 Apps

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Microsoft Agent 365

Microsoft Agent 365: Available in Frontier program

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender for Identity alerts transitioning to XDR-based detection platform

Automatic Windows event auditing configuration now available for unified sensors (V3.x)

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Threat actor attribution information will be removed from alert page

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Agentic AI Phish Submission Analysis

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) Teams protection capabilities to Defender for Office Plan 1

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge for Business and Microsoft 365 Copilot: Introducing “What’s New” page after major updates

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra ID: Retirement of duplicative properties in passkey (FIDO2) authentication methods policy

Microsoft Entra: ID Account Recovery

Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms: Enable Sensitivity Labels

Microsoft Intune

Plan for Change: Update to Intune Data Warehouse infrastructure

Microsoft Learning Zone

Microsoft Learning Zone Windows app enabled by default for Education tenants

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention- Admin units support for SharePoint Online

Microsoft Purview: New Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management Experience

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Email attachment Preview in Activity Explorer

Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Azure AI Search honors Purview labels and policies

Microsoft Service Health Dashboard

Microsoft Service Health Dashboard: Archive service health issues for yourself or your organization

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Protection against tenant-owned domain impersonation in Teams chat

Microsoft Teams: Network Device Interface (NDI) bandwidth increase

Microsoft Teams – Native MacOS screen and window sharing in Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent support in Teams rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams: Private chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings, webinars, and town halls

Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Interpreter and multilingual meeting experience

Upcoming Change to Teams Desktop Client on Windows

Microsoft Teams: Custom AI summary now available in Meeting Recap

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Insights: Publish reports capability is becoming generally available

Microsoft Viva Engage: Behavior change to Engage “featured conversations” in public communities

Microsoft Viva: Search Engage conversations in Teams mobile

Microsoft Viva: Transition to VFAM-based exclusion management

Opal

New: Opal Computer Use Agent experience available for Microsoft 365 enterprise users (admin setup required)

Outlook

Outlook: Enriching profile cards with custom, organization-specific properties

Syncing HiddenFromAddressListEnabled attribute across tenants for consistent Global Address List (GAL) visibility

Outlook: Calendar Conditional Formatting in New Outlook

Microsoft Outlook Mobile: Filter out declined meetings for a cleaner calendar view

Power Apps

Power Apps – Upcoming changes to license consumption experience

Power Apps – Add AI record summary to model-driven apps

Power Automate

Power Automate – Information regarding the end of support for Document Automation Toolkit

Power Platform

Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – November 2025

Power Platform – Improved security for column-level audit events in Microsoft Purview

Power Platform admin center – Manage agent security with enhanced admin controls

PowerPoint

PowerPoint adds AI-powered image editing with “Designer editor”

Viva Engage

Viva Engage: Community feeds improvements

Viva Engage in Microsoft Teams mobile: New conversation search capability available

Windows

Windows Office Hours: November 20, 2025

New update to address issue affecting organizations with Windows 10 devices enrolled on Extended Security Updates (ESU)

An updated version of the November 2025 Scan Cab is available

Windows announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025

Take Action: Out-of-band update to address November 2025 hotpatch update being reoffered after Windows update scan

WINS removal: Moving forward with modern name resolution