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Business Value

Adding data sensitivity labels in email enhances data security by allowing service representatives to classify and protect sensitive information. This feature enables secure collaboration, reduces the risk of data breaches, and offers customization flexibility for managing various types of sensitive information.

Feature Details

Data sensitivity labels can help customer service representatives properly label their outgoing emails.

Data sensitivity labels provide the following benefits:

  • Easy classification and protection of sensitive information.
  • Compliance with regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
  • Improved user awareness about sensitive information.
  • Streamlined data management through centralized label creation and application.
  • Integration with other Microsoft services for consistent data protection across apps.

Before customer service representatives can view and use data sensitivity labels in email, admins must add and publish them. To add and publish the labels, admins must have the required roles and privileges in Microsoft Purview and Dynamics 365 Customer Service.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Mar 13, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

You can accelerate email responses with intelligent template prompts. Copilot prompts in email templates automatically populate email templates with the prompt content, reducing service representative workload and ensuring consistent, accurate customer communication.

Feature Details

With this feature, administrators can configure email prompts as part of email templates. When a customer service representative inserts an email template, Copilot autopopulates content from the prompts, improving agent productivity and reducing manual effort.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Mar 03, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Customer Knowledge Management Agent automatically turns untapped case and case-related conversation data into knowledge that supports your contact center. Customer Knowledge Management Agent harvests knowledge from cases in real time as service representatives close cases, helping your contact center respond to emerging issues in minutes. That means no more waiting weeks and months for long knowledge lifecycles. With historical article creation, Customer Knowledge Management Agent can help you quickly turn your historical case data (including case-related conversations, emails, case notes, and other details) into ready-to-use knowledge articles.

Actionable knowledge insights allow supervisors and content managers to monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent as well as the health and usage of knowledge used by Copilot. Tailored analytics empower users to enhance the quality and relevance of knowledge articles, resulting in more accurate Copilot guidance. Ultimately, this feature boosts productivity and decision-making accuracy, leading to improved user satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Feature Details

With real-time creation, the moment agents close a case, Customer Knowledge Management Agent analyzes the case and case-related notes, conversations, and emails to draft a knowledge article that fills knowledge gaps and helps your organization respond to emerging issues in minutes. Customer Knowledge Management Agent compares the content of the case against your Dynamics 365 knowledge base to determine if a new article is needed, while also ensuring that content isn't duplicated. It ensures compliance by scrubbing sensitive data, and it can be extended with custom automated compliance checks from your organization.

It can automatically publish the article, if configured to do so, and make the article accessible to support representatives, Copilot, and even self-service portals depending on your configuration. Supervisors can always review, edit, and monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent's work.

Insights help supervisors monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent.

Historical creation brings Customer Knowledge Management Agent's power to help you unlock knowledge from your historical cases, turning them from raw case data into ready-to-publish knowledge articles, all while preventing duplication, ensuring compliance, and giving supervisors the same tools to monitor Customer Knowledge Management Agent's work.

Knowledge insights empower supervisors to assess and confirm Customer Knowledge Management Agent's ability to create reliable content for internal and external usage, and take quick actions to drive measurable knowledge repository improvements that lead to optimal Copilot experiences.

This feature will be automatically available to supervisors using Customer Knowledge Management Agent. Based on the autonomous-level preference (semi-autonomous or fully autonomous), supervisors will see a dashboard highlighting the corresponding performances from draft creation to publishing, and the articles' usage by Copilot. Supervisors are also guided to articles that require review and are approaching expiration, so they can act on high-priority articles in a timely manner.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
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  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history


Public preview date moved to Mar 2025
Removed general availability date
Dec 03, 2024
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Jan 23, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Traditional customer feedback management takes a long time (days/weeks) to close the loop with action on feedback provided. Additionally, different tools are used to capture customer feedback across different channels within Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In the era of AI, we have an opportunity to reimagine customer feedback management in Customer Service, with automated and personalized feedback loops to help our customers unlock immense business values. This feature unifies the process of configuring these surveys across channels while leveraging the generative AI capabilities of Copilot Studio bots, as well as how the feedback collected is presented to supervisors.

Feature Details

The key capabilities of the survey agents include:

  • Use Copilot Studio agents to gather customer feedback and configure contextual actions depending on feedback.
  • Unify and centralize the process of configuring surveys across email, messaging, voice, and custom channels.
  • Use predefined templates to create surveys easily.
  • View feedback summarized into actionable insights available for supervisors to review.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 18, 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Inline Copilot significantly enhances service representative productivity by minimizing manual effort during email composition. In addition, enabling service representatives to incorporate additional content with Copilot's assistance enhances the quality of the composed emails. This flexibility allows service representatives to include relevant information, thereby improving the accuracy and overall quality of the emails. This can reduce back-and-forth interactions, leading to increased customer satisfaction (CSAT).

Feature Details

The inline email Copilot feature can now be invoked by customer service representatives in mid-draft, enabling them to use AI assistance at any point during email composition. This helps service representatives to generate relevant partial drafts using existing Email Assist functionality that seamlessly integrates with their existing content, improving efficiency.

Copilot email assist generating a partial email draft.

This functionality will be available in the inline editor only and not in the Copilot help pane.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history


Public preview date moved to Apr 2025
General availability date moved to Jul 2025
Feb 28, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : Jul 2025
Last updated: Mar 13, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Transform customer support communication with intelligent template recommendations that cut response times and eliminate administrative friction. By leveraging AI to precisely match contextual templates, support teams can dramatically reduce manual template searching, accelerate case resolution, and deliver more consistent, accurate customer communications.

Feature Details

Copilot email assist now suggests relevant email templates, reducing the need for customer service representatives to search for email templates manually. Copilot's template suggestions are based on email content, search context, and thread intent. Representatives can access these suggestions through the email editor itself.

This is a pay-as-you-go feature. Learn more in Pay-as-you-go plan.

  • Representatives can enter the custom prompt in the inline email assist card when replying to the customer.

  • Copilot matches the prompt with the email templates stored in the application and selects the most appropriate email template in the Inline Email form.

    Copilot recommending an email template

  • Representatives can see the name of the email template selected. They can also select a different email template, if required.

    Template inserted and template name displayed

For representatives to use this feature, administrators must do the following:

  • Enable the feature.
  • Create email templates in the application, as Copilot only recommends existing templates.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Mar 13, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Agents can view the customer's sentiment for an incoming email, improving response quality and allowing them to manage escalations effectively.

Feature Details

With this feature, agents can view sentiment indicators in the inbox and email editor view and respond appropriately. Administrators and supervisors can view the average sentiment scores in the dashboard view under Email Analytics.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Mar 03, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

When service representatives refresh their browser windows while in Customer Service workspace, they expect all previously opened sessions and tabs to reappear. Current functionality requires that users reopen their sessions and tabs one by one. This usability improvement saves time and allows service representatives to be more productive.

Feature Details

While using Customer Service workspace, users expect their refreshed browser to reload previously opened sessions and tabs.

Current experience

Currently, if a browser in Customer Service workspace is refreshed or reconnected for any reason, the app reloads only the home page. Users then have to manually reopen any other tabs or sessions one by one, such as calls, cases, chats, messages, and so forth. This manual reload is forced in any of the following scenarios:

  • Slow browsers due to memory issues.
  • Microphone or headset issues.
  • Network issues.
  • Accidentally or intentionally closing a browser tab, or the browser completely.

New experience with session restore

In the new experience, the following automatic actions occur when the browser refreshes:

  • Entities, such as case, accounts, and so forth, and their application tabs are restored.
  • Focus is restored to the last session or app tab that was previously in view.
  • After the user's presence is reloaded, conversations are restored, such as calls, chats, and so forth.

New experience callouts

Users should be mindful of the following caveats when using the new browser refresh experience:

  • The order of session tabs might change.
  • If there are multiple browser sessions and tabs open, only the latest updated browser sessions and tabs are reloaded.
  • Cross-browser functions aren't supported. For example, refreshing from Edge to Chrome.
  • The productivity pane state and focus are restored, but the productivity tool state isn't restored.
  • Chats, calls, and other generic sessions are restored only after the user presence is reestablished. There is a delay in this functionality when compared to the restoration of other sessions and tabs.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Oct 1, 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Personalized case views let your service representatives create case views that work best for them in the inbox. These customized case views can help your representatives increase their productivity and organize their work more efficiently.

Feature Details

Personalized case views are comprised of the following steps:

  1. Admins create personal views on a grid page for the case entity.
  2. Service representatives add the personal views to the inbox.
  3. The personal views are then visible in the inbox.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Jan 24, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

The inbox is a single view where customer service representatives can see all of their work items in a consolidated location. This experience will be enabled by default for out-of-the-box and newly created representative profiles.

Feature Details

Help your customer service representatives view all of their work items in a single, consolidated location in the inbox.

Benefits of this experience include the following highlights:

  • Currently available for all service representative experience profiles.
  • Will be turned on by default for out-of-the-box and newly created service represenative profiles.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Jan 24, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

We're implementing the new Fluent 2 design theme in our Customer Service applications to create more usable, delightful, and functional products. This implementation helps ensure branding consistency. It also provides a modernized look and feel, which helps ensure user satisfaction.

Feature Details

The Customer Service workspace application is undergoing a modernization refresh for a cleaner, more visually appealing UI.

The new functionalities of the workspace are designed to enhance usability, making the product easier to navigate and more intuitive for users to perform actions.

Some changes from the modernization are:

  • Customer service representatives benefit from an improved look and feel of Copilot ask-a-question in Customer Service workspace and Dynamics 365 Contact Center apps. Updates include an increased size of the message input field and relocation of icons. 
  • The inbox has a new, island-type user interface with rounded edges to give service representatives a more modern look and feel.
  • Service representative scripts in the productivity tools feature updated states, icons, and components to enhance visual appeal and provide a more delightful user experience.
  • The timeline is a pivotal control that requires a modernized look to meet the evolving needs of users. A modernized UI in Dynamics 365 improves efficiency, visibility, and user satisfaction by providing a faster, cleaner, and more interactive experience.
  • Voice controls have a refreshed look that makes it easier for service representatives to navigate controls with efficiency. The new, modern UI is available for both inbound and outbound calls, and provides a better experience and ease of use.

The modernized UI in Customer Service apps helps improve efficiency, visibility, and user satisfaction by providing a faster, cleaner, and more interactive experience.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Mar 13, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Admins can configure a maximum number of up to nine sessions that their customer service representatives can have open at one time.​ ​ Different industries, businesses, and even workforce management philosophies have unique best practices about the correct number of sessions their service representatives should work on concurrently. ​ ​ Session limit configuration provides your administrators with a systematic way to facilitate these best practices. ​

Feature Details

The session limit feature lets administrators configure the maximum number of sessions for customer service representatives to use in Customer Service workspace.

Administrators can figure session limits between three and nine, with nine being the default and maximum setting. This configuration is available in the app settings for Customer Service workspace.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • Configuring the session limit allows you to lower the default, maximum-allowed number of sessions for service representatives to use. It doesn't provide the ability to allow for more sessions beyond the default number of nine sessions.
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Jan 23, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

In scenarios where a service representative might be on leave, needs more response time, or transfers a conversation to a different queue, the service representative should be able to change the flow of the rules for automatic actions.

Feature Details

The service representative should be able to turn off each of the automatic actions that would be enacted on the conversation by instance. Additionally, administrators can add more settings, such as actions (Active to Waiting) and trigger events (Agent Non-response time), so that they can configure the timeout rules.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history


General availability date moved to Jun 2025 Feb 14, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Often, businesses require common rules across various lines of business queues and workstreams. To configure these common rules, administrators must go through each queue and manually create a ruleset and add rules. A repeat of this step for each queue, which can be in the hundreds, ends up taking hours to complete. A template for the ruleset simplifies the process by allowing administrators to create templates for common routing rulesets and apply them in queues and workstreams, thus saving hours of work.

Feature Details

Create templated rulesets for routing configurations like prioritization, assignment, and work classification rulesets. Apply these ruleset templates when you create prioritization, assignment, and work classification rulesets in a queue or workstream. In one go, administrators can manage templated ruleset configurations globally from one place and publish updates to all queues and workstreams where the ruleset is applied.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Apr 2025
Last updated: Mar 13, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically