Microsoft 365 admin center introduces a preview usage report for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat agents, showing active users, usage breakdown, license state, and agent creator type. Available now, it covers 30 days of data from August 19, 2025, excluding SharePoint and Custom engine agents. No admin action needed.
Microsoft is enhancing the Copilot dashboard in Viva Insights with new adoption metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, offering deeper visibility into how unlicensed users engage with Copilot. This update begins rolling out in late September 2025.
This updated reporting tooling will be critical for organizations and their partners to quantify and analyze adoption progress, enabling data-driven decisions around change management, training investments, and Copilot readiness. By surfacing granular insights into usage patterns among unlicensed users, organizations can better identify engagement gaps, tailor support strategies, and demonstrate ROI to stakeholders to drive future AI-driven initiatives.
Key Benefits:
- Track usage trends and engagement over time
- Analyze adoption by department or role
- View app-level breakdowns and entry points
- Segment data by organizational attributes
- Support compliance with exclusion and admin controls
Requirements:
Available to tenants with 50+ Viva Insights or Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. Admin roles supported include Global Admin, Viva Insights Admin, and AI Admin. This feature will be enabled by default for existing dashboard users.
Microsoft has rolled out Cloud Update for Microsoft 365 Apps, now generally available as announced in Message Center update MC1143992. This feature streamlines update management by allowing IT admins to automate deployments while maintaining control over timing and scope.
This simplified and unified tooling gives system administrators the immediate necessary tooling required to pilot, deploy, enforce, and rollback updates to Office apps across their environment.
Key Benefits:
- Phased rollouts with custom waves
- Pause/rollback options for Monthly Enterprise Channel
- Exclusion windows and group-based exclusions
- Enforced update deadlines
- Supports Copilot readiness and compliance visibility
Requirements:
Available to organizations with supported Microsoft 365 plans (Business, Education, Enterprise) and roles (Global Admin, Office Apps Admin). Not supported in GCC, GCC High, DoD, or 21Vianet environments.
Get Started:
Admins can enable Cloud Update via the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. For setup guidance, visit Microsoft Learn or contact AdaptivEdge to see how we can assist your organization with managing your Microsoft 365 or SharePoint environment.
Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Defender for Cloud expanded support for U.S. Government Cloud environments, introducing full availability of Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Defender for Servers Plan 2. These enhancements aim to help federal and civilian agencies strengthen their cloud security posture and maintain compliance with standards like FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53. Defender CSPM offers real-time compliance assurance, risk-based prioritization, and agentless monitoring. At the same time, Defender for Servers now includes capabilities such as secrets detection, EDR and malware detection, file integrity monitoring, and baseline recommendations. Agencies can enable these plans directly through the Azure portal to begin leveraging their benefits immediately.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now offers the public preview of multi-tenant endpoint security policy distribution. This new feature allows security teams to centrally manage and replicate endpoint security policies across multiple tenants using the Defender multi-tenant portal. By creating content distribution profiles, teams can select existing policies from a source tenant and apply them to target tenants, with policy targeting based on Microsoft Entra device groups. The system supports hierarchical policy views, real-time updates, and synchronization, promoting consistency, efficiency, and scalability in security management. Access requires delegated permissions and appropriate Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Platform Single Sign-On (SSO) for macOS using Microsoft Entra ID. This feature builds on the Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in to offer seamless, secure authentication across macOS apps and browsers, reducing repeated sign-in prompts and supporting passwordless access via Secure Enclave-backed credentials or smart cards. It enables synchronized passwords with local accounts, simplifies onboarding with Just-in-Time compliance setup, and enhances security with biometric enforcement, granular authentication controls, and improved diagnostics. Platform SSO is compatible with macOS 13+ (recommended 14+), requires MDM enrollment, and is managed via Intune or other MDM solutions. Future updates will expand functionality, including support for macOS Tahoe 26.
Microsoft has introduced the limited public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a new solution designed to enhance business continuity by providing temporary, secure Cloud PC access when a user's primary device is unavailable. This standalone offering grants up to 10 days of Cloud PC access per year, allowing employees to stay productive during device failures, theft, or cyberattacks. Admins can preconfigure and deploy these Cloud PCs via Microsoft Intune, applying organizational policies and security settings. The system follows Zero Trust principles and supports centralized management, including license control and provisioning policies. End users can access their Cloud PCs from any device and receive notifications as access time nears expiration. While still in preview, Windows 365 Reserve aims to minimize downtime and IT workload during disruptions.
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Entra called cross-cloud synchronization, which helps organizations manage user accounts more easily across different Microsoft cloud environments, such as commercial, Government, and China-based tenants. This means that when a user is added, updated, or removed in one tenant, those changes can automatically happen in another, saving time and reducing manual work. The feature is currently in public preview and will become widely available around September 2025. It won’t affect your organization unless you choose to turn it on, and it’s designed to be flexible so administrators can set it up based on what their organization needs. The supported cloud pairs are listed below. To use the feature, you'll need either a Microsoft Entra ID Governance / Microsoft Entra Suite license for each user in the source tenant, which is an add-on to Entra ID P1 or P2.
Microsoft has deployed some nice upgrades on how users can interact with PDFs:
* When opening PDFs in OneDrive and SharePoint Online, users will be able to display and use the PDF's table of contents for easy navigation. Users will be able to jump to sections directly.
* Users can now choose the level of compression (light, medium and heavy) for PDF's stored in OneDrive and SharePoint Online. This will allow PDF's to be shared faster and lighten up storage.
Rollout for the various types of tenants is expected between July and September, and no admin actions are expected.
Microsoft will be retiring the built-in SharePoint Alerts feature in favor of alerts that can be set up through Power Automate. The general timeline:
1. New tenants will have alerts turned off starting in July 2025.
2. Existing Alerts in current tenants will have an expiration applied for 30 days starting October 2025. Users can manage their Alerts and reenable them for another 30 days.
3. New Alerts will not be able to be created after January 2026 for all tenants.
4. Extension and creation of Alerts will be disabled after July 2026.
It is recommended that tenant admins review their alerts usage and create Power Automate alerts or use SharePoint Rules in the meantime.
Commercial (Commercial, GCC) → US Government (GCCH, DoD)
US Government (GCCH, DoD) → Commercial (Commercial, GCC)
Commercial → China
