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What's New in Microsoft 365 | May Updates

Written by Nick Ross | Jun 5, 2025 6:15:00 AM

 

Microsoft 365 Updates for May 2025

Check out the latest updates from Microsoft including Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 Apps, Entra, Copilot, and more!

Microsoft Teams

 

New Features

 

1. Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat 

Meeting organizers and co-organizers will be able to send one-way messages to attendees in the meeting lobby using the Lobby chat. Coming late June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025. 


2. Teams Premium: Support for the Polls app in town halls 

Before this rollout, organizers are unable to capture real-time feedback using polls in Microsoft Teams town halls. 


After this rollout, organizers with the Teams Premium license will be able to create and share polls in Teams town halls using the Polls app, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. 

Example Experience: https://youtu.be/bT0mbfLL-tQ  

Coming mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025. 

 

3. Room Recommender

With this rollout, if no room is booked for the meeting, an AI-generated room suggestion will be sent in the meeting chat an hour before the meeting start time when two or more attendees are co-located in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier.


The room suggestion will consider location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best space. You can reserve the suggested room with just one click and update the invite for everyone. The organizer must have a Teams premium license for this experience to occur, which is on Teams mobile on iOS. 

Coming mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025

 

Microsoft Outlook

 

New Features
 
1. Jump to a message in the message list

Users will be able to type text and jump to the next message in the message list. For example, when the message list is sorted by sender with From, users will be able to type “Philip” to jump to the first message where the sender is “Philip.”


Coming late May 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by late June 2025.

 

Microsoft 365 Apps

 

New Features

1. OneDrive: Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive Sync  

This feature prompts users who are signed into a personal Microsoft account on a Windows device and actively using their corporate OneDrive to also sign into OneDrive with their personal account. Once signed in, users can access both their personal and corporate OneDrive accounts on the same device—without merging content. The prompt is enabled by default and only appears if a personal account is already in use on the device. Organizations that have previously restricted personal account usage with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see the prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy.   

Steps to block in Intune: 🚫 Disable Personal OneDrive Account Syncing in Work Accounts Using Intune | LinkedIn 

Coming mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.


2. OneDrive: Export files as PDF

After this rollout, users can access the Export as PDF command in the three-dot menu or the command bar for files and shared libraries in OneDrive. Coming mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025. 


3. SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive: New PDF compression feature  

Users will be able to use the new Compress feature to reduce the file sizes of PDFs stored on Microsoft OneDrive for the web or Microsoft SharePoint. Users can choose from three different compression levels. 


Coming late May 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by early June 2025 (previously mid-May). 

 

Microsoft Edge

 

UX Update

1. Microsoft Edge is adding translation for PDFs.

Instead of copying and pasting the text you want to translate, a new feature coming to Edge will let you convert a PDF into over 70 languages by simply clicking the “translate” button in the browser’s address bar.  GA release expected in June.

 

Microsoft Copilot

 

New Features

1. Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning 

With Copilot Tuning, you can use your company data, workflows, and processes to train models and create agents that perform domain-specific tasks with a high degree of accuracy using Copilot Studio—no coding required. For example, a legal firm can create an agent to reflect its unique style and expertise—automating document creation and even drafting arguments that blend institutional knowledge with client-specific context to help build the strongest case possible. 

Full Announcement: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning, multi-agent orchestration, and more from Microsoft Build 2025 | Microsoft 365 Blog 

Available starting in June as part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning Early Adopter Program 

 

 
2. Microsoft 365 Copilot for phone without transcription

Enables users to leverage Copilot’s capabilities during live call sessions without retaining transcripts or an audio recording afterward. This ensures that users can benefit from Copilot during sensitive conversations where a persistent record is not desired. Coming early June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.


3. Teams Meeting Audio Overview 

Introducing the Meeting Audio Overview, a feature that uses AI to capture and summarize key topics discussed during your Teams meetings with an engaging audio output. It converts the selected meeting transcriptions into audio summaries, allowing users to quickly review highlights for multiple meetings, helping them focusing on the most relevant topics to stay up to date. Coming late June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025. 


4. New audio overviews for Word and PDF files in Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon offer AI-generated audio overviews for Word documents, PDF files, and Teams meeting recordings with transcripts in OneDrive. Coming mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

 
5. View your organization’s prompts in the redesigned Copilot Prompt Gallery app soon

Your users will see a redesigned Copilot Prompt Gallery app that introduces a home page and updated prompt browsing experience. In addition, we’re expanding the value of Copilot Prompt Gallery by enabling you to create, publish, and manage organizational prompts tailored to the unique needs of your organization.

Coming late May 2025 (previously early May) and complete by mid-June 2025 (previously mid-May). 

 

6. PowerPoint: Select templates to ensure Copilot generated presentation meets your design guidelines

You can now select templates from a collection provided by your organization to ensure On-brand Copilot-generated presentations or from a handpicked collection of Microsoft templates to ensure beautiful design of Copilot-generated presentations. 

Coming mid-May 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by mid-June 2025 (previously late May). 


7. Microsoft Word: Fix spelling and grammar all at once with Copilot 

This feature provides a one-click solution to apply all grammar and spelling corrections simultaneously, with the option to review and undo any changes you prefer not to keep. Coming mid-May 2025 (previously late April) and expect to complete by mid-June 2025. 

 

8. Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot 

Soon, users will be able to summarize PDF, Microsoft Word (.docx), and Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) email attachments with Copilot in Outlook. Comgin mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025. 

 

Microsoft Admin

License Removal

 

Microsoft announced on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, that the Microsoft 365 Business Premium grant and Office 365 E1 grant on CSP and Web Direct Channels will be discontinued for nonprofit customers upon their next renewal date on or after July 1, 2025.  

To support nonprofits during this transition, Microsoft continues to offer:  

Up to 300 granted licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Basic  

Discounts up to 75 percent on many Microsoft 365 nonprofit offers, including Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Office 365 E1. 

Resources:  May 2025 announcements – Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn 

 

Benefits Change

 

FY26 Indirect Resellers must: 

Have Solutions Partner designation for solution areas OR 25 partner capability points in each solution area. 

Have $25,000 USD TTM revenue for all solution area incentives at PLA. 

In FY26, CSP change of channel partner (COCP) activity is measured by Microsoft. Microsoft monitors COP partner activity regularly. Revenue, tenants, and subscriptions from CSP entities acquired, merged, or otherwise transitioned are explicitly monitored, effective from this announcement. Microsoft doesn’t pay incentives for revenue, tenant, subscription movements between CSP partners, as incentives are not intended for CSP partner-to-CSP partner transfersThis doesn’t apply to when Microsoft deauthorizes a CSP partner or when a CSP partner goes out of business. Change of channel partner activity, as determined solely by Microsoft, might result in adjustment of incentive payments, claw back of previously paid incentives, and termination of the applicable incentive. 

** Solution area for incentives eligibility defined as: 

Modern Work incentives: Solutions Partner designation for Modern Work or Security 

Business Applications incentives: Solutions Partner designation for Business Applications 

Azure incentives: Solutions Partner designation for Data & AI (Azure), Digital & App Innovation (Azure), or Infrastructure (Azure) 

Full Announcement: May 2025 announcements – Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn 

This change goes into effect on October 1, 2025.