Microsoft 365 Top Updates for June 2025

From urgent action items in the Microsoft 365 Message Center to exciting new features on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, these changes will significantly impact your organisation's productivity and security posture.

Top 5 Microsoft 365 Message Center Items in June 2025

As usual, the Microsoft 365 Message Center and Microsoft 365 Roadmap have delivered critical updates this month that every IT administrator needs to know. From urgent action items in the Microsoft 365 Message Center to exciting new features on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, these changes will significantly impact your organisation's productivity and even have implications for your security and compliance policies.

MC1077865 - Network Strength Indicator

A Network Strength Indicator is coming to Microsoft Teams, which will help users understand connection quality (and identify the meeting attendee culprit with poor network quality!) This update addresses common support challenges by providing real-time network performance visibility.

MC1066333 - Classic Teams End of Availability by 1st July

We've all known about this for a very long time, but here's your final reminder that Classic Teams will be completely unavailable from July 1st 2025. This is one of the most significant transitions in Microsoft Teams' history!

Users in your tenant using classic Teams will be impacted if they do not upgrade before the deadline, so admins should help them upgrade as soon as possible to avoid service disruptions.

MC1072889 - Retirement Alert: SharePoint Alerts are being retired

SharePoint Alerts are being retired to streamline and modernise user notification. Microsoft encourages organisations to transition to Power Automate or SharePoint Rules for notifications.

Power Automate and SharePoint Rules offer a more versatile solution and improved integration with other Microsoft 365 services.

MC1073094 - Summarise PDF, Word and PowerPoint email attachments with Copilot in Outlook

In the coming months, users will be able to summarise email attachments with Copilot in Outlook, demonstrating Microsoft's commitment to AI-powered productivity, helping users to quickly understand attachment contents without even having to open the files!

This applies to PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files;  encrypted files or files protected by Microsoft Information Protection are not supported.

MC1084030 - Allow recording and transcription by default in Teams Calling global policy

This update initially sounds like alarm bells should be ringing; however, in the message description, it becomes clear that it will only affect tenants where the calling global policy has not been modified (including brand new tenants).

Admins should therefore check if their calling global policy has been modified or not before 1st July in order to avoid facing potential compliance and security issues.

Top 5 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Items in June 2025

490561 - Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Meeting Protection - Prevent Screen Capture

To address the issue of unauthorised screen captures during meetings, this upcoming Teams feature will prevent screen capture by turning the meeting window black. This ensures protection of sensitive information shared in meetings and gives meeting organisers granular control over recording and screenshot capabilities. 

492979 - Copilot: Reference a Teams meeting when creating a PowerPoint presentation

Copilot will soon be able to reference Teams meeting content when creating PowerPoint presentations, helping to streamline the workflow of turning meeting discussions into presentations.

492622 - Microsoft 365: The Next Generation of file and folder sharing

A new hero link is being introduced, which will have the power to control access to your files. This link, when copied, shared via email or sent as a URL from your browser, will provide a consistent way of sharing and staying in control of your files.

488300 - Microsoft Teams: Threads in channels

Teams channels are gaining threaded conversation capabilities, enabling you to start a side conversation within a channel, whilst keeping the main conversation clutter-free. This feature will bring a forum-style organisation to channel discussions, significantly improving conversation tracking in noisy channels.

487852 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Realtime voice interactions in Word and PowerPoint

Copilot's upcoming real-time voice interaction capabilities in Word and PowerPoint will bring conversational AI assistance to productivity applications. Users will be able to talk to Copilot and understand the content within their document or presentation.

Tracking Microsoft 365 Message Center and Microsoft 365 Roadmap Updates

Successfully managing Microsoft 365 Message Center notifications and Microsoft 365 Roadmap features requires systematic monitoring. The constant stream of Microsoft 365 Message Center alerts and Microsoft 365 Roadmap updates can overwhelm even experienced IT teams.

Organisations need robust processes to evaluate Microsoft 365 Message Center notifications and plan for Microsoft 365 Roadmap features. The retirement of legacy features through Microsoft 365 Message Center announcements, combined with new capabilities from the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, demonstrates that staying current isn't optional—it's essential.