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Copilot Chat arrives free for Entra users, Teams flips transcription on by default for new tenants, and small businesses get live chat. The January 2025 M365 changes, sorted by what to check first.
Mailbox full tickets do not need an Exchange Online Plan 2 upsell. Online archiving plus auto-expanding archive grows a mailbox to 1.5TB on licensing many tenants already own.
July 2024 ships the new Microsoft Entra Suite, auto-enables Microsoft-managed MFA Conditional Access policies, archives unlicensed OneDrive accounts after 90 days, and adds dynamic watermarking and scheduled Copilot prompts.
Copilot Studio agents and Team Copilot headline May 2024, alongside mandatory MFA for Azure, external authentication methods in Entra, macOS Platform SSO, and a twelve-feature Teams batch.
Personal-device access does not have to be negotiated client by client. Define three BYOD support tiers once, then deploy the matching Conditional Access, MAM, and DLP stack everywhere.
Teams unbundles from Microsoft 365 worldwide, Exchange Online announces a 2,000 external recipient limit and the end of Basic auth SMTP, and Copilot reaches more SKUs. April 2024, by product.
Copilot for Security goes GA April 1 with pay-as-you-go pricing, NCE subscriptions become transferable mid-term, Restricted SharePoint Search arrives, and Teams ships voice isolation.
The unified Planner app replaces Tasks in Teams, Azure Information Protection Plan 1 ends sale, Intune adds macOS setup and Autopilot controls, and Copilot reaches SharePoint, OneDrive, and mobile.
A license-by-license matrix of the native security and compliance features that protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data, plus the add-ons that get Business plans most of the way to E5.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 surfaces whatever a user can already touch, including the access nobody remembers granting. Here is the nine-step governance audit to run before you sell or deploy it.
Microsoft 365 Copilot lands November 1 for enterprise, Town halls replace Teams Live Events, Conditional Access templates hit GA, and hybrid password resets finally clear user risk in Entra ID.
Microsoft Teams holds chats, meetings, and files for the whole company. These eight CIS-mapped settings control who gets in, what apps run, and where data can leak.
