Copilot Pages & Notebooks, Microsoft Loop: IT Admin Update – December 2025
For background, check out last year's Nov 2024 IT Admin update. Here's this year's progress and summary: Many key governance, lifecycle, and compliance features for Loop workspaces and Copilot Pages & Notebooks are now available. Learn more here Key deliverables remaining: M365 Group enforcement for shared Loop workspaces Departed User workflows for Copilot Pages, Notebooks, and the My workspace in Loop Multi-Geo Create in user's PDL for shared Loop workspaces Read the rest for details What’s Delivered (since Nov 2024) Sensitivity Labels for Loop workspaces Learn more here Guest Sharing for Loop (Entra B2B: Jul 2024 | for orgs with Sensitivity Labels: Mar 2025) Learn more here Retention Labels for Loop pages and components Learn more here Admin Management: Membership, ownership, deletion, restoration, search, filter, in SharePoint Embedded Admin Center and PowerShell for containers Learn more here Promote Members to Owners for Loop workspaces Learn more here M365 Group owned workspaces: managed by M365 Groups for workspaces created within Teams channels Learn more here Also, check out the latest from Ignite 2025 on Unlocking Productivity with Copilot Pages. What’s In Progress / Coming Soon Feature / Scenario Status Target Date Notes Enforce Microsoft 365 group-owned Loop workspaces In development Q1 CY'26 - 422725 IT policy to require Microsoft 365 groups for lifecycle management of shared Loop workspaces Multi-Geo Create In development Q4 CY'25 - 421616 All new Loop workspaces saved in creator’s PDL geo Departed User Workflow In development Q1 CY’26 - 421612 Temporary or permanent reassignment of existing user-owned containers, copy capability for data URL to Open Containers in app In development Q1 CY'26 - 421612 Application Redirect URL that opens in app when clicked if user has permissions User-Accessible Recycle Bin In development H1 CY’26 - 421615 Restore deleted Copilot Pages, Notebooks from Microsoft 365 Copilot app, restore deleted workspaces from Loop app Groups as Members (tenant-owned) In development H1 CY’26 Invite Microsoft 365 groups as members to Notebooks and workspaces Graph APIs for management In development H1 CY'26 For organizations with dev teams and in house management tools Read-only members Paused Due to lower overall feedback volumes, this work is paused Target date disclaimer: dates and features are estimates and may change. For the latest status, see the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap links. Instead of creating and repeating content directly in the post this year, our IT Admin documentation on learn.microsoft.com and the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap has been updated based on the above. We recognize that lack of some of these capabilities may still block your rollout. Please drop questions in the comments or reach out to us through your account team. We're excited to be enabling the rollouts of Copilot Pages, Notebooks, and Loop workspaces in your organization.Loop governance, lifecycle, manageability for IT Admins – Nov 2024
Dive into our latest update on Loop governance, lifecycle, and manageability tailored just IT admins! Discover how Loop's seamless integration with Microsoft 365 can transform your team's productivity with real-time co-authoring, versatile components, and enhanced security features. From Copilot Pages to comprehensive manageability roadmap items, this blog has everything you need to confidently pilot and fully enable Loop in your organization.
New Yammer groups usage report and updated Office 365 groups report
We're adding a new Yammer groups activity report that will help you understand how your users leverage Yammer groups to communicate and collaborate in your organization. We are also enhancing the existing Office 365 groups report to include file activities performed by users in the group's SharePoint site as well as any message activity users perform in the Yammer group associated with the Office 365 group.A New Release Strategy: Preparing for Teams Release
Based on feedback from organizations like yours, Microsoft is taking a new approach to application and service releases. Starting with Microsoft Teams, we are providing tenant wide and per user controls for managed release as defined by your organization. Of course, no action is required if you want to receive the latest and greatest innovation as quickly as possible. Microsoft's intention is to develop innovative new collaboration and productivity experiences that empowers private and public sector organizations to achieve more than ever before. We are building applications and services on top of the Office 365 platform with built in security and compliance so that your organization can focus on aligning technology to organization and mission opportunities and needs. Our hope is that you will fall in love with Microsoft Teams and leave it enabled or quickly release it to your users.IT Agility to Realize Full Cloud Value - Evergreen Management
An always-evolving and continuously improving cloud service brings additional functionality, as well as new challenges, to an enterprise or government. This is a paradigm shift for IT organizations and an opportunity to drive value for business and mission goals.Office 365 Monitoring: Leveraging the Office 365 Service Communications API
We're back with another edition of the Modern Service Management for Office 365 blog series! In this article, we review monitoring with a focus on communications from Microsoft related to incident and change management. These insights and best practices are brought to you by Carroll Moon, Senior Architect for Modern Service Management and Chris Carlson, Senior Consultant for Modern Service Management.Evolving IT for Cloud Productivity Services
The whole point of the "Business Consumption and Productivity" category is to focus on the higher-order business projects for whatever business you are in. This category is about the business rather than about IT. We all want to evolve IT to be more about driving those business-improvement projects. However, in order for IT to help drive those programs with (and for) the business, we need to make sure that the IT Pros and the IT organization are optimized (and are excited) to drive the business improvements.
