WEEKLY BRIEFING · 28 JUL – 3 AUG 2025 · UTC
Full source inventory · public sources only
Week 31 sources
No new MSRC release that week. 5 roadmap changes, led by Outlook (2) and Purview (2). 13 Azure updates, including 1 retirement. 2 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
5Roadmap changes across 3 products
2Windows and security articles
Windows and security news2
Product news30
Microsoft Graph · 14
- Change notifications (beta): 1 API change passage31 Jul
- Teamwork and communications (beta): 1 API change passage31 Jul
- Reports (beta): 2 API change passages31 Jul
11 more
- Reports (beta): 13 API change passages31 Jul
- Change notifications (beta): 1 API change passage31 Jul
- Identity and access (beta): 4 API change passages30 Jul
- Devices and apps (v1.0): 3 API change passages30 Jul
- Device and app management (beta): 3 API change passages29 Jul
- Change notifications (v1.0): 5 API change passages29 Jul
- Groups (beta): 2 API change passages28 Jul
- Security (beta): 9 API change passages28 Jul
- Device and app management (beta): 2 API change passages28 Jul
- Devices and apps (beta): 3 API change passages28 Jul
- Device and app management (beta): 10 API change passages28 Jul
Defender · 9
- (GA) Defender Experts MDR customers can now incorporate third-party network signals for enrichment.1 Aug
- (GA) 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 Aug
- (GA) Microsoft Defender Experts MDR and Microsoft Defender Experts Hunting customers can now expand their service coverage to include server and cloud workloads protecte…1 Aug
6 more
- (GA) The Sensitivity label filter is now available in the Incidents and Alerts queues in the Microsoft Defender portal.1 Aug
- (Preview) Advanced hunting now lets you investigate Microsoft Defender for Cloud behaviors.1 Aug
- (Preview) In advanced hunting, the number of query results displayed in the Microsoft Defender portal has been increased to 100,000.1 Aug
- (Preview) In advanced hunting, you can now enrich your custom detection rules by creating dynamic alert titles and descriptions, select more impacted entities, and add c…1 Aug
- (Preview) The following advanced hunting schema tables are now available for preview: The CloudStorageAggregatedEvents table contains information about storage activity…1 Aug
- Defender for Endpoint Linux 101.25062.00031 Aug
Azure Virtual Desktop · 2
- Managed identity support for validation host pools using session host configuration1 Aug
- Token protection support in Windows App on Windows devices is now generally available1 Aug
Outlook · 2
- [FIXED] Error when opening a saved .MSG file twice in classic Outlook1 Aug
- [WORKAROUND] Error code 30094-27 when updating Office1 Aug
Global Secure Access · 1
Microsoft Entra · 1
Sentinel · 1
Azure updates13
- Generally Available: Azure File Sync Arc Extension1 Aug
- Generally Available: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup for Azure VMs1 Aug
- Retirement: Azure Dedicated HSM1 Aug
- Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager in Azure US Government Cloud31 Jul
- Generally Available: Log or block shared access signature (SAS) tokens for Azure Storage based on expiration policy31 Jul
8 more
- Public Preview: New tagging features in Azure confidential ledger31 Jul
- Generally Available: Accelerated logs now available for General Purpose tier in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server30 Jul
- Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-July 202530 Jul
- Generally Available: Configure backup interval for Azure Database for MySQL automated backups30 Jul
- Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL cascading read replica30 Jul
- Public Preview: New SQL Server database migration in Azure Arc30 Jul
- Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Entra authentication for Power BI Desktop30 Jul
- Generally Available: Customer-controlled maintenance29 Jul
From the community1
Microsoft 365 roadmap5
Outlook · 2
- Outlook: Contact Improvements on Outlook Mobile29 Jul
- Outlook: Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot29 Jul
Purview · 2
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention -- Always-on diagnostics for macOS endpoints (Phase 1)31 Jul
- Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration30 Jul
SharePoint · 1
Other public updates29
- Power Automate - Configure and manage SLA with work queues2 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use intent to consult with a user2 Aug
- Enhanced Personalization via Communication Memory in Copilot1 Aug
- Feature retirement: deploy Shifts to your frontline teams at scale in Teams Admin Center1 Aug
- Introducing Express setup for auto attendants and call queues in Teams admin center1 Aug
24 more
- SharePoint eSignature now globally available (excluding China, Indonesia, and Türkiye)1 Aug
- Viva Learning: data export reporting now available1 Aug
- Please update Microsoft 365 Office apps to a version higher than 16.0.18827.202021 Aug
- Plan for Change: Removal of Microsoft Graph Beta API sendDeviceOwnershipChangePushNotification property1 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys - Create event portals with event registration details using Power Pages1 Aug
- Retirement of Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch Cmdlets by End of 202531 Jul
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Set timer to wrap-up conversations in seconds31 Jul
- Power Apps – Temporary reversion to the classic app sharing experience31 Jul
- External workbook links to blocked file types will be disabled by default30 Jul
- Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline30 Jul
- Outlook | Save an Event as a Draft30 Jul
- Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel30 Jul
- Microsoft Teams: Edit and manage Teams Town Hall instances in Microsoft Outlook30 Jul
- Power BI Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning features retiring; transition to Fabric AI services30 Jul
- Microsoft Outlook: Copilot chat now available to summarize emails for more users30 Jul
- Microsoft 365: New map-based desk booking experience in Microsoft Places30 Jul
- Microsoft Purview | Experience enhancements to IRM alert workflow30 Jul
- Microsoft Defender for Identity: Expiration required for Recommended test mode29 Jul
- Microsoft Entra: Cross-cloud synchronization now available29 Jul
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Use Azure Communication Service-based SMS Mobile Numbers29 Jul
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Set Timer to Wrap Up Cases in Seconds29 Jul
- Microsoft Entra: Action Required – Update Conditional Access Policies for Azure DevOps Sign-ins28 Jul
- Dynamics 365 Marketing – The public IP addresses of Dynamics 365 Marketing service are updating28 Jul
- Immersive events in Microsoft Teams is available in public preview28 Jul
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