Where did the first half of the year go? This edition of What's New in Teams comes to you on the heels of InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, the largest professional AV show in North America, and the week where the people who design, build, and run the world's collaboration spaces all gather in one place. It's a fitting backdrop, because so much of what's new in Teams this month comes back to a single idea: bringing people and AI together to get work done.

That was the high-level takeaway of our InfoComm keynote, where our Corporate Vice President for Teams Calling, Meetings, and Devices, Ilya Bukshteyn, showed how AI now shows up across Teams like a teammate, in your calls, in your meetings, and in the environments where work happens. A few highlights from each worth calling out:

In your calls and conversations

• New calling agents: Teams Phone Agent is a new AI calling experience that answers incoming calls for a department or organization, understanding what each caller needs and routing or resolving common information requests and appointments scheduling conversationally. Custom voice agents your organization builds in Microsoft Copilot Studio integrate with Teams Phone for help with specialized processes, like enabling a customer to pay a bill in a call.
• Brand impersonation protection: Teams now detects and warns you when a caller may be posing as a trusted brand, like your IT help desk or bank, with a clear in-call signal so you can decline or leave before you engage.

In your meetings

• Redesigned in-meeting controls: Customize your meeting controls around how you work, and share with more confidence through an improved experience for previewing and presenting content.
• Bot detection: A new Teams admin policy helps identify likely bots, route them to the lobby in a separate group, and requires organizer approval before they join.

In your rooms

• Facilitator in Teams Rooms: with new skills, the Facilitator agent can help extend the meeting lifecycle in Teams Rooms. For the room itself, Facilitator agent can now notify of any issues with the room and find a suitable replacement, use voice to interact with users in the Teams Room, provide information about how to get the most out of using the space, and access external knowledge to answer general questions. These new skills make Teams Rooms smarter before, during, and after meetings.
• IntelliFrame people labels: IntelliFrame now identifies each person in the room and places their name right alongside them, so remote participants always know exactly who's speaking. A small thing that makes hybrid meetings feel more inclusive and equitable.

These are just some of what's new to explore in Teams this month. For more information about all the features we highlighted at InfoComm 2026, watch Ilya’s full keynote presentation here. Read on to see everything we've released in June across Teams.

Product areas covered in this update: (All features are generally available unless otherwise noted.)

Chat and Collaboration
Meetings
Teams Phone
Workplace - Places and Teams Rooms
Fundamentals and Security
Frontline workers
Platform
Certified for Teams Devices

Chat and Collaboration

Contextual search in Copilot in Teams

Sometimes the fastest path to an answer in Teams is to ask rather than scroll through search results. Contextual search in Copilot is now built into Teams search—invoked from autosuggest or a new button on the search results page—so you can get answers without leaving the search experience.

Advanced file discovery and filters in Teams Find in chat and channels

Finding the right file in a busy channel often means scrolling or asking someone to resend it. Enhanced contextual search now indexes every file uploaded to a channel—even files added outside messages—and adds filters for file type, sender, and date, with instant typeahead to narrow results as you search. Press Ctrl+F (Windows), Cmd+F (Mac), or click Find in chat to start.

Improved preview experience for Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel files in Teams on mobile

Slow or unreliable previews on mobile can stall you between meetings. PowerPoint and Excel previews in Teams now load faster and more reliably, so you can review presentations and spreadsheets shared in chats and channels while on the go. The new preview experience also enables you to open Information Rights Management (IRM)-protected files, improving access to protected content.

List view for "View more apps"

A cluttered tile view in “View more apps” makes it hard to scan and find the app you need. A streamlined list view now reduces visual noise and helps you discover and open apps more quickly.

Context preservation in Teams

Teams automatically restores your workspace when you return to a conversation shortly after leaving it. Your selected tab, open side panel, and layout are preserved, allowing you to pick up where you left off without resetting your view. This helps reduce friction and keeps you focused as you move between conversations.

Live meeting indicator for threaded channels in Teams (government clouds)

Live meetings happening right now in a busy threaded channel can go unnoticed in the scroll. A new live meeting indicator in Teams for government clouds highlights active meetings in the channel so you can spot them and join in real time.

Improved organization for muted and meeting chats in Teams

A long, mixed chat list makes it hard to find the conversations that actually need your attention. Teams now automatically groups muted chats (on by default) and, optionally, meeting chats into dedicated sections you can turn on or off, so your most important conversations remain easy to find.

Improved visibility and control for downloads in Teams

Tracking the status of files you’ve downloaded shouldn’t  get in the way of your chats. The download manager now opens from the title bar or with a keyboard shortcut and lets you monitor downloads without blocking chat and channel actions, so you can stay on top of files while keeping the conversation moving.

Quick Share for images in Teams

Quick Share in Teams now makes it easier to share images across chats and channels in just a few clicks. You can access sharing options from hover, right-click, overflow menus, and shared tabs to quickly copy links or share images. For images stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, Quick Share preserves existing permissions so the right people maintain access, while images pasted directly into chat are stored separately and do not support permission-based sharing.

Meetings

Smarter bot protection in Teams meetings

AI note-taking bots have started showing up in meetings, creating privacy and security risks when sensitive topics are discussed. A new Teams admin policy, Manage external bots and their access to meetings, helps Teams identify likely bots, route them to the lobby in a separate "Suspected threats" group, and require organizer approval before they join. Confirmation prompts on admission and an upcoming registration path for trusted ISVs make admitting a bot a deliberate decision rather than an accidental one. Learn more.

Branded reactions

Visual identity shapes how your organization shows up. Whether it's a client presentation, an internal milestone, or a seasonal event, the right visuals set the tone and reinforce your brand. With new branded reactions, organizations can now extend their visual identity directly into meetings. IT admins simply upload custom reaction icons reflecting brand elements or event themes, and these instantly become available for meeting participants. Every clap, thumbs-up, or celebration now aligns with your organization's look and feel. A simple way to create more cohesive, on-brand meeting experiences.

Teams Phone

Teams Phone Agent and extensibilty for Copilot Studio voice agents [Frontier public preview]

Callers reaching a service line shouldn’t have to wait on hold just to ask a simple question or schedule an appointment. The new Teams Phone Agent answers incoming calls to your Teams Phone service line quickly, handles common questions, schedules appointments, and routes calls to the right person or department when human help is needed. It also integrates with custom AI voice agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio for specialized workflows like paying a bill over the phone. This is experience is available in preview through the Fronter Program. Learn more.

Outlook, Teams: Enhanced voicemail transcription and support for new languages

Inaccurate or limited-language voicemail transcripts can leave you guessing what callers actually said. Starting in June, voicemail transcription moves to Azure LLM Speech via the Fast Transcription API, bringing more accurate transcripts, faster processing, automatic language detection, and 14 new languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

Simplified app management for Teams Phone devices via Teams admin center

Empower IT admins to customize Teams Phone devices at scale with centralized app management in the Teams admin center. Administrators can now select and remove applications on Teams Phone devices directly from a single management console, eliminating the need for on-device configuration. This streamlined experience helps organizations tailor the app experience for different roles, reduce administrative effort, and maintain greater control across their device fleet. Learn more.

Workplace: Teams Rooms

Facilitator agent skills in Teams Rooms [Public preview]

Facilitator agent now brings a persistent, voice-activated AI presence to your Teams Rooms before and after every meeting, understanding the space, your work data, and even the web to keep collaboration moving. With room readiness checks, it catches problems like camera obstructions, clutter, or too few seats before anyone walks in, and surfaces the issue. You can now invoke Facilitator by voice, just speak to the Teams Room to join a meeting or get help and it answers out loud. As a persistent Teams Room expert, Facilitator can answer questions about how the space is set up, from the room's name to how to share wirelessly. Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms can now also access external knowledge, it pulls trusted answers from the web to settle in-the-moment questions, so people stay in the flow instead of reaching for a laptop. The result is a room that's ready when you are, captures what matters, and gives everyone more out of every meeting.

IntelliFrame people labels [Public preview]

IntelliFrame people labels put names to faces for everyone joining from a Teams Room, so the whole meeting knows exactly who's who. Powered by intelligent cameras and enrollment-based recognition, the labels appear when you hover over an in-room participant. These labels are there when you need them, out of the way when you don't, and if someone hasn't enrolled, others in the meeting can identify them so their contributions still get attributed.

Department of Defense (DoD) cloud support for Teams Rooms on Android 

While available for commercial customers, DoD customers couldn’t yet take advantage of Teams Rooms on Android. But now, Teams Rooms on Android app meeting and collaboration functionalities are fully supported for Department of Defense (DoD) customers. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.

Front-of-room view control for Webinars & structured meetings in Teams Rooms on Android

When a Teams Rooms on Android joins a webinar or structured meeting as a presenter, you don't want the front-of-room display flipping to presenter view in front of the audience. The front-of-room display now defaults to attendee view, and presenters keep full control from the console—including green room and off-stage management—and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Learn more.

Proximity join support for presenters in Teams Events from Teams Rooms on Windows or Android 

Getting set up to present an event from a meeting room can be a bit cumbersome and confusing for users. Now, proximity join in Teams Rooms on Windows or Android lets presenters connect quickly and effortlessly to nearby room systems during Teams Events such as town halls, webinars, and structured meetings, enabling smooth live presentations. Learn more.

Room availability signal in the Teams events app 

Booking a room for a Teams event without knowing whether it's free at that time can lead to conflicts and last-minute scrambles. In the Events app, event organizers can now see whether the chosen room or space is available at the designated time before confirming. Available for any Teams event organizer with a Teams Enterprise license. Learn more.

Fundamentals and Security

Admins can define Teams policies in TAC that are specific to Blueprints or Digital Workers

Governing digital workers and their blueprints with the same Teams policies used for regular users creates risk and limits flexibility. IT admins can now associate a Policy Template, a reusable set of licensing, security, and compliance policies, with one or more blueprints in the Teams admin center, so every agent created from a blueprint automatically inherits the right policies, without disrupting existing blueprint management.

Manage Teams core agents in the Teams admin center

Managing Teams core agents alongside general Microsoft app settings makes it hard to control where they show up. IT admins can now manage Teams core agents like Facilitator from a dedicated experience in the Teams admin center, controlling availability for all users, specific users, or groups. These agents are native to Teams and no longer affected by org-wide Microsoft app settings.

Security Detection Report in Teams Admin Center 

Investigating phishing, impersonation, and message safety incidents in Teams has meant piecing together signals from multiple places. The Security Detection Report in the Teams admin center gives IT admins a unified view that consolidates impersonation, malicious URL, and weaponizable file detection data across Teams messaging. Admins can export the report as a CSV with sender MRI and thread ID for deeper investigation, and access reporting directly in the Teams admin center alongside existing security workflows.

Meeting impersonation detection and high‑risk alerts for Teams on iOS and Android 

Impersonation attempts in meetings are hard to spot in the moment, and in the past, mobile users have had fewer protections than desktop. Now, new security signals in Teams identify potential impersonation and surface contextual alerts when elevated risk is detected, so you can make more informed decisions during collaboration. This release brings high-risk detection capabilities to Teams on iOS and Android, extending protection across more endpoints without disrupting meeting experiences.

Report a Security Concern in Calls

Suspicious calls are often the first sign of vishing, impersonation, or fraud attempts—but until now, you’ve had no easy way to flag them. From Teams call history and post-call surfaces, you can now report suspicious or unexpected VoIP and PSTN calls, add context, and optionally block the caller. If a call was flagged in error, you can mark it “not a concern” to reduce false positives. Your reports feed Microsoft security and investigation systems, strengthening protections against emerging calling-based threats.

Microsoft Teams VDI Optimization for Omnissa on Mac

VDI users on Omnissa for Mac haven’t had the same modern Teams performance as native desktop users, especially for meetings, audio, video, and screen sharing. Teams now brings its modern VDI optimization architecture to Omnissa on Mac, delivering better performance, greater feature parity with the native desktop client, and a more reliable experience—while keeping the centralized management, security, and scalability of VDI.

New Teams VDI optimization for macOS

Users accessing Teams through existing virtual desktops systems on macOS often experience lower call quality and limited meeting features compared to local devices. Now in GA, the new Teams optimization for macOS improves performance The new Teams optimization for macOS improves performance and reliability for users connecting to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. It replaces the previous solution with better video quality (up to 1080p), larger gallery views, and enhanced calling features like Quality of Service (QoS) and noise suppression. For IT admins, it adds Teams Admin Center integration, Call Quality Dashboard support, and simpler updates via a bundled plugin. For more info, check New VDI solution for Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn.

Frontline Workers

What's New in Shifts: Smarter Scheduling, Faster Workflows

Frontline managers spend far too much of their day wrestling with schedules. This wave of Shifts updates is all about giving that time back — automating the tedious parts, making every interaction feel natural, and helping new teams get up and running in minutes. Here's everything shipping now and what's just around the corner.

Build a Full Schedule in Seconds with Assign Open Shifts

Assign Open Shifts intelligently matches your available workers to open shifts while honoring the rules that matter most — maximum weekly hours, minimum rest periods, and more — so you can build a ready-to-publish schedule in just a few clicks. Start by creating open shifts for when you need coverage, edit constraints as needed, then watch as a draft schedule is created. Changed your mind? One-click undo rolls the whole thing back instantly. Whether you're standing up a brand-new week or scrambling to cover a last-minute vacation, Assign Open Shifts turns hours of work into seconds.

Move Shifts the Way You'd Expect with Drag and Drop

One of our most-requested features of all time has arrived. Simply grab a shift and drop it wherever it needs to go. Reassign a shift from one worker to another, to a different day or schedule group, or move it into the open shifts pool. It's the intuitive, hands-on scheduling experience managers have been asking for, and it makes mid-week changes the easiest part of your day.

Work at the Speed of a Spreadsheet with Improved Multi-Selection

With improved multi-selection, the familiar shortcuts you already rely on — Ctrl+Select, Shift+Select, and Ctrl+A — let you grab dozens of shifts at once and bulk copy, paste, or delete them in a single motion. Cloning a productive week, clearing out a draft, or making sweeping updates across your team now takes a fraction of the effort. It's the speed and muscle memory of a spreadsheet, brought right into the Shifts app you use every day.

See the Bigger Picture with Two-Week View

Plan further ahead and stop flipping back and forth between weeks. The new two-week view lets you build and review a full fourteen days of shifts side by side — perfect for teams paid biweekly. Spot coverage gaps, balance workloads fairly, and finalize your next pay cycle all in one continuous view. It's a wider lens on your schedule that helps make long-range planning effortless.

Platform

Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams 

If you haven’t registered your voice in Teams, you’ll miss out on key features like intelligent speaker recognition, richer Microsoft 365 Copilot recaps, and smart audio and video experiences. Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice fast and easy. If you don’t yet have a voice profile, just go to the recognition tab in Teams settings and opt-in to enroll your voice simply by speaking during a meeting. Admins can enable or disable this feature for their organization. Learn more.

App support for private and shared channels

Users often need to leave private and shared channel conversations to access the apps they rely on. But now, app support for private and shared channels brings tabs, bots, and message extensions directly into these collaboration spaces (subject to admin policy). Channel owners can add apps at the channel level, helping teams stay in flow and move work forward without switching contexts. To implement these updates, follow Teams connects shared and private channels - Teams | Microsoft Learn.

Certified for Teams Devices

Biamp Ceiling Tile Mic w/ Configurable DSP for Medium, Large and Extra-Large Rooms

The Biamp BMA 360D Ceiling Tile Mic, powered by the TesiraFORTÉ X — the industry's most trusted conference room DSP — brings gold-standard Tesira audio to medium, large and extra-large Microsoft Teams Rooms on drop-tile or hard ceilings. Learn More.

New Logitech Express Install bundles

Logitech, in partnership with Urben Express, Vison Express and Samsung, is simplifying room installations with Express Install solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and Android. Each bundle makes high-quality meeting spaces more accessible and easier to deploy. Logitech's Express Install kits for huddle rooms, medium rooms, and large rooms, can be installed in under an hour, with minimal labor and no specialist help needed.

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Logitech Express Install: Logitech Rally Bar Mini & Vision Express Desk Mount for Teams Rooms on Android	Logitech Rally Bar Huddle & Vision Express Desk Mount for Teams Rooms on Android	Logitech Rally Bar & Urben U-Cart HD for Teams Rooms on Android

On June 29, 2026, we announced the general availability of Claude in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises a production-ready path to build with Claude models in the Azure ecosystem. Today, we’re continuing that momentum with the general availability of Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft Foundry. Claude Sonnet 5 brings Anthropic’s most capable Sonnet model to Microsoft Foundry, where developers can use it with Foundry Agent Service and Microsoft IQ to build, ground, evaluate, and scale Agentic applications.  Sonnet 5 raises the standard for the everyday model teams rely on, delivering top-tier intelligence for coding, agents, and professional work at scale. Built as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6, Sonnet 5 helps teams improve quality and reliability across engineering, agentic workflows, and knowledge work.  

Organizations can now build with Sonnet 5 through their existing Azure account, using Azure-native authentication, billing, networking, governance, and data controls. Hosted on Azure, inference is processed in Azure, customers can choose between Global and US data zones, and Anthropic operates inference as the data processor and SLA provider. This gives enterprises a trusted path to adopt Claude Sonnet 5 for production AI while staying within the Azure environment their teams already rely on. 

Built for real engineering work  

Sonnet 5 is designed for the complexity of modern software development. It can navigate large codebases, reason across many files, and carry longer debugging, refactoring, and implementation tasks through to completion.  

For developers, Sonnet 5 can help with:  

• Understanding unfamiliar codebases  
• Planning and landing multi-file changes  
• Debugging issues across services or components  
• Refactoring code while preserving behavior  
• Writing cleaner, more maintainable code  
• Reducing the number of correction rounds needed   

For teams building developer tools, coding agents, migration assistants, or internal engineering copilots, Sonnet 5 provides a stronger foundation for moving from task description to working code. 

A more reliable backbone for agents  
As enterprises move from chat-based assistants to agents that can plan, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks, reliability becomes critical. Agents need to call the right tools, maintain state, recover from errors, and know when to check their own work. Sonnet 5 is built to serve as a more dependable backbone for production agents. It calls tools more precisely, holding context across many steps, and recovering when something goes wrong without losing the thread. It can also check its own work along the way, helping more multi-step runs finish correctly the first time.  
This makes Sonnet 5 especially relevant for workflows such as:  

• Workflow automation  
• Browser and desktop automation  
• Research and analysis agents  
• Reporting agents  
• Code generation and review agents  
• Tool-using assistants that operate across enterprise systems  

Stronger support for everyday professional work  
Sonnet 5 is not only built for developers. It is also designed for the work that fills a professional’s day: analyzing information, drafting documents, building spreadsheets, creating slides, and turning unstructured source material into clear outputs. Sonnet 5 can help teams build and audit spreadsheets, draft slides and documents, summarize and structure source material, perform financial analysis, create reports, review numbers and assumptions, and produce cleaner first drafts that are closer to ready to use. Because Sonnet 5 works incrementally and checks its own steps, it can improve reliability on tasks where precision matters.  
 
Why use Sonnet 5 in Foundry?

Microsoft Foundry gives developers a trusted platform to discover, evaluate, deploy, and operate leading AI models for production applications. With Sonnet 5 generally available in Foundry, teams can access Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-class model in the Azure ecosystem, with the enterprise controls they need to build AI applications at scale. For teams building agents, Foundry Agent Service can use Sonnet 5 as the reasoning core to orchestrate multi-step planning, tool use, and task execution across enterprise systems. 

With Microsoft Foundry, teams can: 

• Explore and compare models for their workload 
• Evaluate model behavior using their own data and success criteria 
• Build agentic applications with tool use and orchestration 
• Monitor quality, safety, and performance 
• Deploy with enterprise-grade security and governance 
• Optimize across quality, latency, and cost as model options evolve 

For enterprises, this means Sonnet 5 is not just a powerful model. It is part of a broader development lifecycle that helps teams build, evaluate, operate, and continuously improve AI systems in production. Organizations can authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID, apply Azure role-based access controls, manage access through existing governance policies, and track usage through familiar Azure management experiences. For high-sensitivity workloads, zero data retention is also available, so prompts and completions are not retained by Anthropic after the API call completes. 

For commercial teams, Claude usage is billed in Claude Consumption Units as a consolidated line on the Azure bill, with MACC drawdown and per-model detail in Foundry unchanged. That simplifies how teams procure, consume, govern, and scale Claude in the same cloud environment where they already operate. 

Pricing

* According to Anthropic, this promotional launch pricing of $2/$10 per million input/output tokens is in effect through August 31, 2026, after which the standard pricing of $3/$15 per million input/output tokens will take effect.

Getting started 

Claude Sonnet 5 is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry for developers and enterprises building AI applications on Azure. Customers using Sonnet 4.6 can evaluate Sonnet 5 by testing it against their own prompts, datasets, tools, and application workflows. We recommend starting with the workloads where quality, reliability, and completion rate matter most: coding agents, multi-step tool-using agents, spreadsheets and document workflows, and professional analysis tasks. As models continue to evolve, Microsoft Foundry helps teams adopt new capabilities with confidence by giving them the tools to evaluate what changed, measure the impact, and deploy the right model for the right workload. 

Sonnet 5 brings top-tier intelligence to the Sonnet model class, making it easier for enterprises to scale more capable coding, agentic, and professional workflows on Azure. Try Sonnet 5 in Foundry today.

Welcome to the June 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 customers up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day.

Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month:

User capabilities: 

• General availability for Copilot Cowork
• Expanded citations and reasoning for Copilot app and Chat
• New references and access for Copilot Notebooks
• Customization and refinement for Copilot in Outlook
• Improvements to document editing for Copilot in Word
• Updates to branding, skills, and references for Copilot in PowerPoint
• Skills, personalization, and rules for Copilot in Excel
• Planner Agent availability and Researcher options for Copilot Agents

IT admin capabilities: 

• New adoption and management capabilities for Microsoft 365 admin center
• Email restriction and Cowork controls for Purview Data Loss Prevention

User capabilities

General availability for Copilot Cowork

Copilot Cowork, an agentic system that plans, executes, and delivers real work, is now generally available worldwide. Users define the task, and Cowork executes it from start to finish, returning a completed deliverable rather than a draft or recommendation. Powered by Work IQ, Cowork grounds every task in the systems that a business already runs on, so the work reflects real context. Cowork is enabled via usage-based billing, and administrators can use the new Cost Management Dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center to monitor credit usage, manage budgets, and control spend. Learn more about Cost Management in the entry below.

Now the Microsoft 365 Copilot app has a toggle users can switch between Chat and Cowork. This gives users an easy way to choose between working on answers and action. This feature rolled out in June.

Cowork can now choose the model that best fits the task with OpenAI GPT 5.5 Thinking. Cowork can also choose Anthropic models for visual work like PowerPoint and graphics or use GPT 5.5 for deeper research with citations. This helps users get more tailored support for different types of work without selecting a model manually. This feature rolled out in June to Frontier.

Cowork now supports more plugins, giving users access to additional business systems directly in the flow of work. New plugins available in the plugin store include Enosix, Harvey, LSEG, Miro, monday.com, Moodys, Morningstar, S&P Global Energy, and TeamsMaestro, with Databricks available through sideloading. Microsoft Fabric and the full Dynamics 365 portfolio, including Sales, Customer Service, and ERP apps, are also supported. These plugins rolled out in June.

Users can now easily create, edit, and manage custom skills in Cowork through the Customize tab to personalize what Cowork can do. Skills are custom instructions that make Cowork work the way users do. Now users can more easily build and refine custom skills over time as well as combine your own workflows with partner-provided or org-wide skills deployed through plugins. This helps teams standardize recurring tasks without rewriting prompts each time. This feature rolled out in June.

Cowork can now directly create and edit visuals including deck graphics, document illustrations, and email imagery. Powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0, this helps users generate visuals in the flow of work without switching tools. Cowork can also now use branded PowerPoint templates from an organization’s asset library, so users can create decks with approved colors, fonts, logos, and layouts from the start, reducing manual formatting and brand cleanup after a presentation is generated. These features rolled out in June.

Cowork can use the Edge browser to do work across an organization’s business systems, websites, and intranet sites. This feature rolled out in June to Frontier.

Cowork is now available for mobile users on iOS and Android. Users can start working on one device and continue on another with the same context and conversation intact. This gives mobile users full access to Cowork without losing their place. This feature rolled out in June.

Cowork now sends push notifications for long-running tasks, including approvals, input requests, and completions. This enables users to stay informed without needing to monitor open tasks, so they can continue their own work while Cowork finishes. This feature rolled out in June. 

Expanded citations and reasoning for Copilot app and Chat

With Work IQ, Microsoft 365 Copilot can now reason over Power BI enterprise data and return grounded answers directly from Power BI reports and semantic models. Users can ask natural-language questions and get accurate answers without building queries themselves. This brings governed BI data into the Copilot experience for faster, trustworthy insights. This feature rolled out to the Frontier program in June.

Work IQ also enables Copilot to now search and query Dataverse business data, bringing line-of-business records into the flow of work across Copilot Chat experiences. Users can ask about their Dataverse data in natural language and get grounded answers without leaving Copilot. This extends Copilot's reach into the structured business data organizations keep in Dataverse. This feature rolled out in public preview in June and will be generally available in September.

Deep citations let users verify Copilot's results by linking directly to the specific part of a referenced file rather than the whole file. The feature is rolling out with support for Word and PowerPoint files, and soon will include Meetings, Web, and PDF references as well. By enabling users to trace an answer back to its source, deep citations build trust in Copilot's output. This feature rolled out in June.

The new Regenerate action lets users use simple options like Try Again or Switch Model to quickly get an alternative response to their latest prompt directly in Copilot Chat. Instead of starting over, users can explore different answers and refine the output in place, helping to improve quality and find the response that fits. This feature rolled out in June.

Vision in Microsoft 365 Copilot helps users get answers faster when work depends on what they see on screen or through their phone camera. Instead of trying to describe a dashboard, document, image, error message, or real-world object, users can show it to Copilot and ask questions in a voice conversation. Copilot uses that visual context, along with available work and web context, to explain what is in front of them, surface insights, and guide next steps. Learn  how to start vision. This feature is rolling out in July.

Users can now get actionable feedback on a Copilot Page by selecting "Suggested edits" in the Copilot Shortcuts menu. Copilot analyzes the page content and offers feedback and suggestions in-line to improve clarity and quality, which users can then apply directly to the page. This helps users quickly polish their work and keep momentum without switching tools. This feature rolled out in June.

New references and access for Copilot Notebooks

Users can add Outlook emails as references in Copilot Notebooks. Bringing email content into the notebook lets users ground Copilot in the conversations, decisions, and context that drive their work. This connects email-based context to the broader notebook workspace. This feature is rolling out in July.

Previously only available to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, giving more team members a shared place to gather project context, work from reference sources, and turn that information into helpful mind maps and learning tools in study guide. This feature rolled out in June.

Customization and refinement for Copilot in Outlook

Classic Outlook for Windows now provides direct access to different Copilot settings. Users can find and adjust their Copilot options without leaving Outlook. This makes managing the Copilot experience more convenient for classic Outlook users. This feature is rolling out in July.

Users can now refine an email draft with Copilot directly in the compose canvas. By selecting a section of the draft, users can ask Copilot to adjust its length, tone, or structure. This makes targeted edits easy without rewriting the whole message. This feature rolled out in June on the web.

Improvements to document editing for Copilot in Word

Model choice is now available in Copilot in Word, giving users the option to choose Anthropic models when editing documents with Copilot. This gives writers more flexibility for tasks like rewriting, summarizing, restructuring, and refining content, so they can choose the model that best fits the type of work they are doing. Users get more control over the editing experience and a better chance of getting the right tone, structure, and level of detail without starting over or rewriting prompts repeatedly. This feature rolled out in June.

Copilot Catchup is now available as a content card that surfaces a quick recap of what's changed in a document since a user last opened it. Instead of rereading a document to find updates, users get a quick recap up front. It's a fast way to get back up to speed on shared and evolving files. This feature rolled out in June.

Users can now create and insert an image using Copilot in Word. Copilot generates and places the image inline as part of the agentic editing flow. This brings image creation directly into the Word authoring experience. This feature rolled out in June.

Copilot in Word agentic capabilities are now available for iOS, so users can edit and add content to documents from their iPhone or iPad. This brings core Copilot writing support to users who need to keep work moving on their iOS devices. Users can make quick updates, draft new content, and refine existing text directly on their mobile device, while also performing more advanced actions like image insertion and tracked changes in the full Word experience. This feature rolled out in June.

Word now preserves Copilot Chat conversation history from chat to the apps. Users can pick up where they left off without losing the thread of their Copilot session, keeping complex, multi-step document work continuous. This feature rolled out in June.

Copilot can reason over and apply changes edits to a document based on content in comments. Rather than manually working through feedback, users can have Copilot implement the suggested changes. This speeds up the revision cycle on collaborative documents. This feature rolled out in June.

Updates to branding, skills, and references for Copilot in PowerPoint

Brand Kit Picker lets users easily create presentations that follow their organization’s approved brand templates. When building a deck with Copilot, users can select an admin-approved brand kit so the presentation starts with the right colors, fonts, and visual style. This helps teams create polished, on-brand decks faster and reduces the need for manual formatting or brand cleanup after the presentation is generated. This feature rolled out in June.

Users can now create and reuse Copilot skills for repeatable PowerPoint presentation tasks. By saving common instructions as skills, users can standardize how they build, refine, and format presentations without recreating the same prompts each time. This feature rolled out in June on the web.

When creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, users can now reference SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders. Copilot draws on these sources to ground the deck in the organization’s existing content, helping users create presentations that reflect specific material instead of relying on general information. This feature rolled out in June.

Skills, personalization, and rules for Copilot in Excel

Users can now use Skills in Copilot in Excel to package repeatable workflows as reusable instructions. Teams can create custom skills for common analysis, modeling, or reporting tasks and invoke them when working in Excel. This helps users standardize complex work without rewriting the same prompts each time. This feature rolled out in June.

Copilot in Excel now supports Personalization, so users can set standing preferences once and have Copilot apply them consistently across workbooks. Users can define guidance for formatting, naming conventions, formulas, PivotTables, and report styles, so Copilot’s edits reflect how they prefer to work without repeating the same instructions in every prompt. This helps make outputs more consistent, reduces rework, and gives users more control over how Copilot edits their spreadsheets. This feature rolled out in June.

Copilot in Excel now gives teams a way to define standards that stay with a specific workbook through workbook rules sheets. Rules can capture structure, formatting, naming, formula conventions, and examples in a .Rules sheet, so everyone using Copilot to edit the file follows the same workbook-specific guidance. Rules can also reference examples, formulas, ranges, and other sheets, making it easier to standardize recurring templates and team workflows directly in Excel. This feature rolled out in June.

Planner Agent availability and Researcher options for Copilot Agents

When the Researcher agent is added to a Copilot chat, users can now choose from supported Researcher models and modes directly in the conversation. This puts control over depth and approach in the user's hands for each research task. Teams get more flexibility to match the model to the job at hand. This feature rolled out in June.

The Planner Agent helps users plan, organize, and manage work more efficiently. The agent delivers interactive task cards and actionable insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot, so users can easily prioritize tasks across Planner plans, and focus on what matters. Via natural language prompts, users can also create and update tasks or ask the agent to create structured plans with goals and buckets. This feature rolled out in June.

IT admin capabilities

New adoption and management capabilities for Microsoft 365 admin center

Admins can now create and publish organization prompts in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, easily guiding users toward relevant, effective ways to use Copilot for common workflows. Users can find organization prompts in the Copilot Chat prompt suggestions and Prompt Gallery, helping them build effective prompting habits and explore Copilot use cases tailored to them. This feature rolled out in June.

Cost Management Dashboard in Microsoft 365 admin center provides a centralized way to activate, manage, and optimize spending on AI experiences enabled by usage-based billing, including Copilot Cowork. Administrators can allocate Copilot Credits, create spending policies and limits by groups, and choose between prepaid credits and pay-as-you-go billing models. Reporting, budgets, alerts, and hard caps help organizations monitor usage, control costs, and manage spend. This capability rolled out in June. Learn more here.

Additional cost reporting at the group or team level will also be available through a dashboard in Insights to give team leaders a view into their team’s use of Copilot Credits. The dashboard is enabled by default and available to managers with at least five direct reports, as well as Insights Analysts and Global Administrators, helping leaders quickly understand and manage AI spend. This capability will roll out in July.

Agent metrics for custom reporting will be available in Insights. Analysts can explore and combine granular agent usage data with organizational context to identify adoption trends, create customize reports, and make data-driven decisions without relying on predefined dashboards. This feature will roll out to public preview in July and be available in September.

Organizational Messages now support hybrid‑joined devices, enabling admins to deliver targeted in-product communications to users on devices that are connected to both on‑premises Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. This expands message reach to users within enterprise environments where hybrid identity configurations are common, helping organizations consistently drive awareness, onboarding, and adoption of Copilot, agents, and other Microsoft 365 experiences across managed endpoints. By closing a key gap in device coverage, IT teams expand organizational messages reach and engage users on a broader set of devices. This feature rolled out in June.

Admins now have a control for vision in Microsoft 365, which uses a stream of images from screen or camera sharing as input to the model. This gives organizations control over when and where vision can be used. This feature rolled out in June.

Email restriction and Cowork controls for Purview Data Loss Prevention

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention can now restrict external emails from being referenced in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat. Admins can use this control to exclude messages from external senders from being summarized, referenced, or used as grounding data in Copilot responses. This helps organizations reduce the risk of external, third-party, or unvetted information appearing in AI-generated responses while keeping users productive with trusted internal content. The capability applies to Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents built in Copilot Studio that are published to Microsoft 365 Copilot, using only Microsoft 365 data. This feature rolled out to public preview in June and will be generally available in July.

Microsoft Purview controls now extend to Cowork, helping organizations manage security and compliance with the same tools they use for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Cowork supports sensitivity label inheritance and display, audit logging, interaction content in Data Security Posture Management Activity Explorer, Insider Risk Management of user risks associated with Cowork interactions, as well as eDiscovery, Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), and Communication Compliance of Cowork interactions. This helps organizations secure and govern Cowork interactions with familiar controls. These features rolled out in June.

Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes is where you can see the Microsoft 365 Copilot features that are generally available (Current Channel for Microsoft 365 apps) and specific to each platform. Check back regularly to see what features are in development, coming soon and generally available. Please note that the dates mentioned in this article are tentative and subject to change.