37 new posts across 12 Microsoft websites since Friday, May 16, 2025
- Microsoft Copilot Blog (1)
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 (5)
- Teams Blog (1)
- Microsoft 365 Insider Blog (5)
- Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (1)
- Azure Communication Services (1)
- ITOps Talk Blog (1)
- Microsoft Security Blog (1)
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (1)
- Power BI Blog (3)
- Viva Insights Blog (1)
- Azure AI Services Blog (16)
Microsoft Copilot Blog
Release Notes: May 15, 2025
Welcome to Microsoft’s Copilot Release Notes. Here we’ll provide regular updates on what’s happening with Copilot, from new features to firmware updates and more. Upgraded 4o image generation We’ve u…
Friday, May 16, 2025
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning
AI tools powered by out-of-the box LLMs and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) may not always understand your business in terms of specific processes, terminology, and style. They can provide result…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Build 2025: Agents in Microsoft 365 announcements
Agents are transforming workflows and team structures, equipping employees with new skills that help scale their impact. As part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release last month, we intro…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Microsoft Build 2025: How to create a “frontier” workplace powered by agents
As we kick off Microsoft Build 2025, we have a new vision of how humans and AI-powered agents will collaborate—and the blueprint for how it’s already taking shape. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index …
Monday, May 19, 2025
Learn more about the Employee Self-Service Agent from customers and partners at Build 2025
HR and IT services have modernized in the last decade with advancements in case management, service desks, knowledge management, employee portals, and chatbots. Now it’s time to take the next step. …
Monday, May 19, 2025
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Built for the new way of working
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the UI for AI The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is built for the new rhythm of work—where AI is woven into your daily flow. This Wave 2 spring release is a major step forward in…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Teams Blog
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2025 - Build Edition
If you’ve never participated in Microsoft Build (and even if you have), now is a great time to check it out! Digital access is free, and there are lots of different ways to make the most of it. You ca…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Microsoft 365 Insider Blog
Collaborate in real time with workspaces in Teams
Hi there, Insiders! I’m Constance Gervais, a Product Manager on the Loop team. I’m excited to share how you can take your collaboration to the next level by bringing together Loop and Teams. Collab…
Friday, May 16, 2025
Easily caption videos in PowerPoint for Mac
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu, a Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day yesterday, I’m excited to share an update in Microsoft Po…
Friday, May 16, 2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your time and project management advisor
Hi, Insiders! When you have what feels like a million tasks on your plate and directions coming in from multiple people, it can be hard to figure out how to best spend your time. Did you know Microsof…
Friday, May 16, 2025
New Reading Order Pane in PowerPoint for Mac to make slides accessible
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu, a Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. I’m excited to announce an improvement to Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac that allows you to adjust the ord…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Tell engaging stories with video in PowerPoint
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu from the PowerPoint team. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I’m excited to share with you several updates that will ensure that your content is a…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs
Learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs allow you to build solutions grounded in your organization’s content, context, and permissions, without needing to relocate or duplicate data. The post Introducing…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Azure Communication Services
Bringing AI to Meetings with the Sample Builder
We’re excited to share a significant update to the Azure Communication Services Sample Builder. This release integrates Azure’s latest AI and video calling capabilities, implementing meeting transcrip…
Friday, May 16, 2025
ITOps Talk Blog
Using Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3 on Windows Server 2025
Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3 has some substantive changes compared to previous versions of the technology. Unlike PowerShell Desired State Configuration (PSDSC) v1.1 and v2, DSC v3 operate…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft extends Zero Trust to secure the agentic workforce
At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re taking important steps to secure the agentic workforce. We are excited to introduce Microsoft Entra Agent ID which extends industry-leading identity management and acces…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s Language AI for Phish: Enhancing Email Security
Email security presents a complex challenge for individuals and organizations alike. Over the years, attackers have evolved from simple spam campaigns to sophisticated threats including ransomware, id…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Power BI Blog
Translytical task flows (Preview)
We are thrilled to announce that Power BI report buttons can now run Fabric User data functions for custom, automated action, including data write-back. This marks a major evolution in Power BI report…
Monday, May 19, 2025
The next era of Copilot in Power BI: Chat with your Data (Preview)
We’re excited to announce the public preview of a new chat with your data experience in Power BI. This new standalone, full-screen Copilot experience, easily accessible from the left navigation of Fab…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary
The May 2025 Power BI update introduces a range of exciting advancements to Power BI, including a standalone Copilot feature allowing users to “Ask Anything!” in preview, enhanced language understandi…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Viva Insights Blog
Unifying the Viva Insights app for Copilot Dashboard and advanced reporting
To create a more unified Copilot Analytics experience for business leaders and Viva Insights Analysts, we’re excited to announce some upcoming changes to the Viva Insights web app. Beginning in June f…
Friday, May 16, 2025
Azure AI Services Blog
From diagrams to dialogue: Introducing new multimodal functionality in Azure AI Search
Introduction We’re thrilled to introduce a new suite of multimodal capabilities in Azure AI Search. This set of features includes both new additions and incremental improvements that enable Azure…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Introducing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search
Today we’re announcing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search, a multiturn query engine that plans and runs its own retrieval strategy for improved answer relevance. Compared to traditional, single-shot…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Up to 40% better relevance for complex queries with new agentic retrieval engine
By Alec Berntson, Alina Stoica Beck, Amaia Salvador Aguilera, Arnau Quindós Sánchez, Thibault Gisselbrecht and Xianshun Chen Agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search is a new API built to effectively an…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Announcing Azure AI Language new features to accelerate your agent development
In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, businesses are racing to embed conversational intelligence and automation into every customer touchpoint. However, building a reliable and scalable agent from scra…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Unlock new dimensions of creativity: Gpt-image-1 and Sora
We’re excited to announce Sora, coming soon to AI Foundry. Learn more about Sora in Azure OpenAI, and its API and video playground, here. Hear how T&Pm, a WPP company, uses Sora in Azure OpenAI to b…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Introducing Built-in AgentOps Tools in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
A New Era of Agent Intelligence We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Tracing, Evaluation, and Monitoring in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, features designed to revolutionize how developer…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Azure OpenAI Fine Tuning is Everywhere
If you’re building an AI agent and need to customize its behavior to specific domains, its interaction tone, or improve its tool selection, you should be fine tuning! Our customers agree, but the chal…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Expand Azure AI Foundry Agent Service with More Knowledge and Action Tools
Customers often face challenges deploying AI agents that can handle complex, real-world scenarios due to limited tool access. To empower AI agents with more capabilities, Azure AI Foundry Agent Servic…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Building a Digital Workforce with Multi-Agents in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
As organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate complex tasks and scale digital operations, the ability to coordinate multiple agents in a single, cohesive system is becoming critical. Moving bey…
Monday, May 19, 2025
Announcing General Availability of Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Agents are revolutionizing business automation by evolving from simple chatbots into sophisticated, collaborative systems. Fueled by advancements in model reasoning and efficiency, these agents can no…
Monday, May 19, 2025
NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Tripadvisor
As a Product Marketing Director at Azure, I’ve spent the last few years in the thick of generative AI, from early chatbot experiments to sophisticated agentic systems that now reason across modalities…
Monday, May 19, 2025
NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: O’Reilly Media
Over the past three years working in generative AI at Microsoft, I’ve had a front-row seat to some of the most exciting shifts in tech. From chat assistants to multi-modal agents, every layer we’ve bu…
Monday, May 19, 2025
NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Inception
As a Director of AI Product Marketing at Azure, I have spent the last three years deep in the GenAI ecosystem. From internal chatbots that evolved into multi-model agent orchestrations, I feel like I …
Monday, May 19, 2025
NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Eventbrite
We just announced NLWeb at Microsoft Build—starting with a GitHub repo to help developers explore it, and a short list of enterprise pioneers testing it out in the real world. Eventbrite is one of tho…
Monday, May 19, 2025
NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Qdrant
We just announced NLWeb at Microsoft Build—starting with a GitHub repo to help developers explore it, and a short list of enterprise pioneers testing it out in the real world. Qdrant is one of those e…
Monday, May 19, 2025
From Extraction to Insight: Evolving Azure AI Content Understanding with Reasoning and Enrichment
First introduced in public preview last year, Azure AI Content Understanding enables you to convert unstructured content—documents, audio, video, text, and images—into structured data. The service is …
Monday, May 19, 2025