WEEKLY BRIEFING · 21 APR – 27 APR 2025 · UTC
Full source inventory · public sources only
Week 17 sources
No new MSRC release that week. 4 roadmap changes, led by Microsoft 365 Copilot (1) and Microsoft Project (1). 19 Azure updates. 4 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
4Roadmap changes across 4 products
4Windows and security articles
Windows and security news4
Product news13
Microsoft Graph · 13
- Tenants (beta): 1 API change passage25 Apr
- Device and app management (beta): 23 API change passages25 Apr
- Teamwork and communications (v1.0): 12 API change passages25 Apr
10 more
- Identity and access (beta): 1 API change passage24 Apr
- Identity and access (beta): 8 API change passages24 Apr
- Identity and access (v1.0): 3 API change passages24 Apr
- Identity and access (beta): 4 API change passages24 Apr
- Identity and access (beta): 5 API change passages23 Apr
- Applications (beta): 2 API change passages22 Apr
- Identity and access (beta): 1 API change passage21 Apr
- Security (beta): 47 API change passages21 Apr
- Security (beta): 2 API change passages21 Apr
- Security (v1.0): 2 API change passages21 Apr
Azure updates19
- Public Preview: Metrics Usage Insights24 Apr
- Generally Avaialble: Azure NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines24 Apr
- Public Preview: Multitenant managed logging in Container insights24 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk24 Apr
- Generally Available: Metadata Cache for Azure SSD (Premium) SMB23 Apr
14 more
- Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure Data Factory service principal authentication23 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 202523 Apr
- Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server23 Apr
- Generally Available: PostgreSQL 17 performance management server parameters now modifiable on Azure Database for PostgreSQL23 Apr
- Generally Available: Support for time-series databases in the migration service for Azure Database for PostgreSQL23 Apr
- Generally Available: Support for Mongo 8.0 on vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB23 Apr
- Public Preview: Easy service upgrade and change service tier in Azure AI Search23 Apr
- Public Preview: Sharded DiskANN in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL23 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Australia Central 2 and Norway West23 Apr
- Generally Available: Instance Mix for Virtual Machine Scale Sets22 Apr
- Generally Available: Announcing the Next generation Azure Data Box Devices22 Apr
- Generally Available: Cross-Region Data Transfer Capability in Azure Data Box Devices21 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Spain Central21 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Firewall resource specific log tables get Azure Monitor Basic plan support21 Apr
From the community1
Microsoft 365 roadmap4
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 1
Microsoft Project · 1
Outlook · 1
Viva · 1
Other public updates51
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Shift swapping for customer service representatives26 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Introducing the Manage time-off requests feature26 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Shift bidding for customer service representatives26 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Automated and manual scheduling for shift plans26 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Create and analyze forecast scenarios for case and conversation volumes26 Apr
46 more
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Create and manage shift plans for effective staffing and service coverage26 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Use capacity planning to predict your staffing needs26 Apr
- Power Automate - Save flow for future retrieval with designer resiliency26 Apr
- SharePoint Online: New document library template type "Resume repository" for resume organization and hiring25 Apr
- Changes to how users install Microsoft 365 apps from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app25 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft events from Teams Rooms on Windows25 Apr
- Microsoft SharePoint: Customize your sites with multi-color themes25 Apr
- Microsoft Fabric: Changes to delegation capabilities for Microsoft Azure OpenAI tenant settings25 Apr
- Microsoft Viva Goals: Optional in-product retirement announcement banner25 Apr
- Microsoft Fabric: Changes to tenant admin setting that governs the access of service principals to public APIs25 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android24 Apr
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Improvements to threat protection capabilities24 Apr
- Microsoft Viva Engage: Report conversations feature in new admin center24 Apr
- OneDrive: ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings24 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Business Central - Migrate record links and notes with cloud migration tooling24 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Real-time adherence monitoring for service representatives24 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Edit business rules for omnichannel AI agents24 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Route to least active representatives in messaging channels24 Apr
- Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive: New PDF compression feature24 Apr
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint: Viva Glint admin can enable Copilot for the Company admin user role24 Apr
- Microsoft Teams Premium: Moderator-governed meetings for information barrier compliance24 Apr
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Ability to rename policy and rules24 Apr
- Power Automate - Integrate Copilot in Process Mining analysis23 Apr
- Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI Apps and agents23 Apr
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Open Copilot Pages content in a Word document23 Apr
- Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word23 Apr
- OneNote Pages in M365 Copilot Chat23 Apr
- New Service Plan: People Skills - Foundation23 Apr
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills will be available starting in May23 Apr
- (Highlight) Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for unlicensed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users (Wave 2 Spring release)23 Apr
- Microsoft Defender XDR services: Deploy the New Defender for Identity sensor on Microsoft Entra Connect servers23 Apr
- Action Required - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Network Configurations Changes23 Apr
- Additional breakdown metrics by app for Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat standalone report23 Apr
- Microsoft Viva Pulse: Customize and display your internal usage guidelines for authors and responders23 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service - Use shift bookings to assign conversations22 Apr
- Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Policy tuning analysis for priority content only policies21 Apr
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Restrict Copilot in Office from processing labeled content21 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Easily call in a presenter from the roster for town halls and webinars21 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Pop out live captions and Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings21 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings and calls21 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) spaces21 Apr
- Microsoft Viva Engage: Analytics data retention will be 18 months instead of 24 months21 Apr
- Microsoft SharePoint Online eSignature for Microsoft Word21 Apr
- (Update) Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows21 Apr
- Action required: Classic Microsoft Teams end of availability starts July 1, 202521 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text (RTT) in Teams meetings and calls for Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet21 Apr
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