Microsoft Release Notes

• Slide control for presenters: There's no longer a need to say 'next slide.' Users can now share control of their presentation slides with their fellow presenters during meetings and events.
• Threaded channels: Threading in channels provides an avenue for deeper and more collaborative conversations. It also allows you to start a side conversation within a channel and focus on specific topics while keeping the main conversation clutter-free. You can reply to specific messages and create a separate thread, helping to minimize distractions and foster better collaboration.
• **Express search intent better with rich query language:**Users can now use query language when formulating search terms, to easily express their intent and scope search. Users can now use:
  • from: to find content from a person,
  • with: to find content around a person,
  • in: to narrow down search results to a specific chat or channel, or
  • is: to recall specific content type (message, file, group chat, channel).

• Apply partial settings for Android devices using configuration profiles in the Teams admin center: In the Teams admin center, admins can now modify, review, and apply configuration settings to Android devices without overriding other settings, ensuring only the desired changes are made.
• Preview changes before sending live in 'Manage what attendees see': An enhancement to the 'Manage what attendees see' feature now allows organizers and presenters to preview changes on the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for town hall.
• Copilot support for 1:1 and group calls on Teams Phone devices: Enhance your calling experience with Copilot on Teams Phones devices by accessing intelligent insights during calls using suggested prompts.
• Line key configuration on Teams Phone devices from TAC: This feature allows admins to configure line keys for various scenarios on Teams Phone devices, including personal and common area phones (CAP). Scenarios supported include speed dial, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers.
• Saved messages view: Users will be able to save messages (posts, replies to posts, or chat message/bubbles) and find them later from the Chat app, as well as on separate Teams and Chat apps. …

Version 2507 (Build 19029.20136)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where Outlook may close unexpectedly after launch.

Word

• Resolved an issue where URLs pasted from Outlook may be broken when the setting "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" is turned off.
• Resolved an issue where Word may close unexpectedly when exporting a specific document as a PDF.
• Resolved an issue in Word where selecting Save Selection to Text Box Gallery may cause some characters to display incorrectly as squares.
• Resolved an issue in Word where the word count may display incorrectly.
• Resolved an issue in Word where certain characters in the document title may incorrectly display as squares in Options.
• Resolved an issue in Word where mail merge fields sometimes incorrectly display certain characters as squares.
• Resolved an issue in Word where certain characters in the title of the document may be incorrectly displayed as squares during save.
• Resolved an issue in Word where, upon inserting a Word document as an object, certain characters in the caption could appear incorrectly as squares.
• Resolved an issue in Word where the Combine Characters function may cause some characters to display incorrectly as squares.
• Resolved an issue in Word where the AIP add-in wouldn't load sensitivity labels.

• Compact notification size: Users will now have the ability to change the size of Teams notifications. The compact size takes up less space on the user's screen and offers a clean, minimalist design.
• Custom dictionary: Tenant administrators can now upload a custom dictionary through the Microsoft 365 admin portal's Copilot settings page to include tenant-specific terminologies. This enhancement improves entity recognition in Teams meeting transcripts, benefiting both Recap and Copilot's understanding of the content.
• Report a message for external collaboration: Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group, and meeting chats.
• Speaker attribution now "On" by default in BYOD rooms with enhanced admin controls: New PowerShell setting (SpeakerAttributionBYOD in csTeamsAIPolicy), enabled by default, gives IT admins more control over speaker attribution in BYOD (bring your own device) meeting rooms. This enhances the experience for users by enabling clear speaker labels and richer in-meeting and post-meeting insights with Microsoft Copilot. Users need to enroll profiles via Teams settings to be recognized. …

• Introducing new IT administrator policies to control town hall event access: Previously, Teams admins couldn't manage who attended town halls created within their organization. With this new policy, tenant administrators can control who can attend town halls created by members in their organization.
• New calendar in Teams: This feature is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams.
• Teams town hall screen management privileges in Teams Rooms on Windows: When the Teams Room on Windows is a coorganizer or a presenter in a town hall, privileges can be granted to start or end the event, manage what attendees see, and promote attendees as presenters, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro. …

• One flow to attach them all: Simplifying content attach on Teams mobile: This new content picker feature enables users to attach any type of content, whether files or media, from the paperclip icon in the compose overflow menu. This new unified attach flow makes it easy and intuitive to attach content from any source location.
• AI assistant for admins in the Pro Management portal: IT admins can optimize their time and resources by utilizing this AI assistant. It offers comprehensive answers to questions about Teams meeting spaces and management solutions, and delivers data and insights specific to inventory in the organization’s environment. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro license and doesn't require a Copilot license.
• Detect sensitive content that's being shared in meetings: When sensitive content is detected during a meeting, all shared screen content during a meeting is protected by alerting the presenter and meeting organizers when potentially sensitive content appears.
• Teams town hall organizer/co-organizer/presenter join as attendee: Organizers, coorganizers, and presenters will soon be able to join a Teams town hall as an attendee during their event to monitor the experience for those viewing the event. This feature will be available across desktop, web, and mobile. …

Version 2506 (Build 18925.20138)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the Copilot icon to unexpectedly display when Copilot had been disabled by the admin in government cloud.
• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when loading web add-ins in some circumstances.

PowerPoint

• Resolved an issue where users may receive the error "We're sorry, something went wrong that might make PowerPoint unstable" after pasting content from Word.

Word

• Fixed an issue with bullet point placement in relation to vertical alignment of text.
• We made performance improvements when performing Mail Merge with large text files.
• Resolved an issue where the search icon in the Navigation Pane may flicker when hovered over.
• Resolved an issue where unsaved comment drafts may disappear on AutoSave when "Restrict Editing" setting is enabled.
• We fixed an issue where print preview may stop working when printing long emails.
• Resolved an issue where users may receive the error "We're sorry, something went wrong that might make PowerPoint unstable" after pasting content from Word.
• Resolved an issue where user defined content marks may be missing after applying a sensitivity label.
• Resolved an issue where Outlook may stop working for users when trying to reply to or forward a message. …