WEEKLY BRIEFING · 28 APR – 4 MAY 2025 · UTC
Full source inventory · public sources only
Week 18 sources
No new MSRC release that week. 5 roadmap changes, led by Teams (2) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (1). 18 Azure updates, including 1 retirement. 1 Windows and security article from Microsoft blogs.
5Roadmap changes across 4 products
1Windows and security article
Windows and security news1
Product news24
Defender · 6
- (Preview) In advanced hunting, you can now view all your user-defined rules—both custom detection rules and analytics rules—in the Detection rules page.1 May
- (Preview) The following advanced hunting schema tables are now available for preview to help you look through Microsoft Teams events and related information: The Message…1 May
- (Preview) You can now highlight your security operations achievements and the impact of Microsoft Defender by using the unified security summary.1 May
3 more
- Defender for Endpoint Windows 10.8797.25857.10001 May
- Defender portal users who onboard Microsoft Sentinel and enable the User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) can now take advantage of the new unified IdentityInfo tabl…1 May
- In government cloud environments, Take action replaces the Message actions drop down list on the Email tab (view) of the details area of the All email, Malware, or Phish…1 May
Microsoft Graph · 6
- Security (beta): 3 API change passages4 May
- Security (v1.0): 3 API change passages4 May
- Teamwork and communications (beta): 1 API change passage3 May
3 more
Outlook · 4
- [FIXED] Classic Outlook mail merge hangs trying to initialize Word1 May
- [FIXED] CPU spikes when typing in classic Outlook for Windows1 May
- [FIXED] Errors CAA2000B and 4usqa when trying to sign in to classic Outlook1 May
1 more
Azure Virtual Desktop · 3
- Connect directly to Azure Virtual Desktop with a direct launch URL1 May
- Multiple personal desktops for a single user is now generally available1 May
- Host pool redirection defaults changing in Azure Virtual Desktop28 Apr
Sentinel · 3
- Additions to SOC optimization support (Preview)1 May
- All Microsoft Sentinel use cases generally available in the Defender portal1 May
- Unified IdentityInfo table1 May
Azure Kubernetes Service · 1
- Release 2025-04-272 May
Global Secure Access · 1
Azure updates18
- Retirement: Azure Static Web Apps – Dedicated Pricing Plan2 May
- Generally Available: Enhanced Cost Management Exports2 May
- Public Preview: Azure API Center May Updates2 May
- Generally Available: UAE North regional availability with Microsoft Dev Box1 May
- Generally Available: Enhancements to Purchase-Related Details in Cost Management for MCA Customers1 May
13 more
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-April 202530 Apr
- Public Preview: Improve the security of Generation 2 VMs via Trusted Launch in Azure DevTest Labs29 Apr
- Public Preview: Larger container sizes on Azure Container Instances29 Apr
- Public Preview: Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP)29 Apr
- Public Preview: Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption29 Apr
- Public Preview: Azure WAF CAPTCHA Challenge for Azure Front Door29 Apr
- Generally Available: Announcing Service Update Configuration for Azure API Management29 Apr
- Public Preview: Inbound Private Endpoint for Azure API Management Standard v229 Apr
- Generally Available: Next hop IP support for Virtual WAN29 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot29 Apr
- Generally Available: Network isolated cluster in AKS28 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.1228 Apr
- Generally Available: Azure Compute Fleet28 Apr
From the community5
Microsoft 365 roadmap5
Teams · 2
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Button Support on Multiple Connected Peripheral Devices2 May
- Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings responses can be exported to Word and Excel1 May
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 1
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Current web content included when drafting with Copilot in Word30 Apr
Viva · 1
Word · 1
Other public updates42
- Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – April 20252 May
- Microsoft Teams: Video clips recording limit increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes2 May
- Informational: Changes to Places Core service plan2 May
- Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Admin units support for Microsoft SharePoint Online (preview)2 May
- Power Automate – Troubleshoot Copilot in cloud flows designer feature2 May
37 more
- New Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web: Jump to a message in the message list2 May
- Microsoft Purview | Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web search query (preview)2 May
- Power Automate - Use your voice to interact with Copilot2 May
- Microsoft Outlook: Updated behavior for switching back from new Outlook to classic Outlook for Windows1 May
- Microsoft Purview: Microsoft 365 Copilot view in Data Security Posture Management for AI1 May
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for data risk assessments1 May
- Microsoft Exchange Online: Introducing ActorInfoString in Exchange Online audit logs1 May
- Plan for Change: Updates to required permissions for Microsoft Graph Beta API deviceManagement1 May
- Microsoft Outlook: We are retiring the Sports Calendar feature1 May
- Microsoft Teams: The Discover Feed will only be shown to users with more than five channels1 May
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux: Removing Netfilter dependency1 May
- Microsoft Teams: Customize your keyboard shortcuts1 May
- Microsoft Teams: Android Open Source Project (AOSP) - Device Management auto updates1 May
- Microsoft SharePoint Online: [Important update] Enabling a new Public Content Delivery Network (CDN) domain1 May
- Microsoft Intune In Development for May 2025 is now available1 May
- Power Automate – Configure Entra hybrid join for hosted machine groups1 May
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use improved outbound dialing with reduced latency1 May
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - View and manage shift schedules with My Schedule calendar1 May
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Monitor work item lifecycle in Application Insights1 May
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Customize formatting and headers for Case and Custom Record Summaries1 May
- Power Apps Studio – Introducing Agents in Plan Designer1 May
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Recognize one of multiple entities in a single utterance30 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Use time-out rules for automated actions to meet SLAs30 Apr
- Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel30 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Enhanced sessions management and live conversation details30 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center– Deploy chat widgets across portals using a single tag feature30 Apr
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Pause or resume recording and or transcription via a client API - Voice SDK extensibility30 Apr
- Shared Mailboxes as Accounts29 Apr
- Microsoft Viva Engage: Selfie video recording is only supported in iOS/Android mobile apps29 Apr
- Live captions copying disabled for Teams meetings29 Apr
- Microsoft Edge: Introducing the Edge for Business security connector framework29 Apr
- Power Automate – Secure credential retrieval in Power Automate for Desktop29 Apr
- Microsoft Purview: Sender email address update for Microsoft Teams Data Loss Prevention Generate Incident Report emails29 Apr
- Microsoft Teams: New sensitivity labels for Microsoft Loop components29 Apr
- What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for April 202529 Apr
- Power Automate – Analyze process mining results with a web client29 Apr
- Limited Microsoft Planner Functionality for Shared Mailbox Users28 Apr
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