WEEKLY BRIEFING · 25 AUG – 31 AUG 2025 · UTC
Full source inventory · public sources only
Week 35 sources
Microsoft published 1 Windows KB release (1 optional preview). No new MSRC release that week. 3 roadmap changes, led by Intune (1) and Microsoft 365 app (1). 11 Azure updates. 5 Windows and security articles from Microsoft blogs.
1Windows KB release
3Roadmap changes across 3 products
5Windows and security articles
Windows releases1
Windows and security news5
Product news7
ADEssentials · 2
- ADEssentials 0.0.25526 Aug
- ADEssentials 0.0.25426 Aug
Microsoft Graph · 2
- Identity and access (beta): 9 API change passages28 Aug
- Identity and access (beta): 2 API change passages26 Aug
Azure PowerShell · 1
DnsClientX · 1
- DnsClientX 1.0.126 Aug
Entra PowerShell · 1
- Microsoft.Entra 1.0.1125 Aug
Azure updates11
- Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-August 202528 Aug
- Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Entra ID group login using user credentials28 Aug
- Generally Available: Schema migration is now available in Azure Database Migration Service (DMS)27 Aug
- Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)—add shards and rebalance data27 Aug
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-August 202527 Aug
6 more
- Generally Available: Entra ID and RBAC support for GetAccountInfo and other supplemental APIs for Azure Storage26 Aug
- Public Preview: Custom block response code and body for Application Gateway WAF26 Aug
- Generally Available: CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC26 Aug
- Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones26 Aug
- Public Preview: Roslyn Analyzer for Durable Functions in .NET isolated25 Aug
- Generally Available: Microsoft Azure now available from cloud region in Austria25 Aug
From the community1
Microsoft 365 roadmap3
Intune · 1
Microsoft 365 app · 1
Outlook · 1
Other public updates56
- Teams Rooms on Windows: Support for facilitator agent in scheduled and ad hoc meetings29 Aug
- Retirement of Editor Browser Extensions for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome29 Aug
- Microsoft Teams: Captions enhancements on Teams Rooms on Android29 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Mask sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access29 Aug
- Power Apps – Find records and filter views using natural language29 Aug
51 more
- Power Apps – Enhanced experience for form filling with Copilot29 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center - Streamlined menu navigation in out-of-box analytics29 Aug
- The August 2025 Windows non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, version 24H229 Aug
- Power Apps – Fill forms faster with smart paste29 Aug
- Azure Information Protection: Enable multifactor authentication for your Azure tenant by October 1, 202529 Aug
- Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections29 Aug
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Upcoming Change to DLP Alert Settings29 Aug
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Universal Touch Console Support for Touchboards29 Aug
- Microsoft Viva Engage: Modernized Private Content Mode29 Aug
- Microsoft 365 Apps admin center: Cloud Update feature now generally available29 Aug
- Limiting onmicrosoft domain usage for sending emails29 Aug
- Power Automate - Organize desktop flows using tags28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Optimize processes with agent-led time, expense, and approvals28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center- Use constrained grammars for speech recognition28 Aug
- Certificate-based authentication changes on Windows domain controllers - coming September 202528 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use messaging APIs to manage customer chat conversations28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys - Collect extra event attendee information without updating your data model28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Use the modern architecture for existing legal entities28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Use the simplified Approvals page28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys - Create an event portal on your own website28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Data - Export your data to Azure Data Lake Storage28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service - Configure timeout rules override in SLA-based automatic actions28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Enable time phasing of quote and contract lines28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Use the new Calendar interface for time entry28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations – Use the new Time Entry mobile app28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys - Collect extra customer info without updating your data model28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys – Generate leads that link to an existing contact28 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations - Use Time zone independent accounting date in project invoicing28 Aug
- Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event27 Aug
- SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store27 Aug
- Microsoft 365 Copilot | Scoped knowledge support for declarative agents in VIP connectors27 Aug
- SharePoint AI-powered site content and policy comparison report27 Aug
- Microsoft Purview | DLP - Enable Diagnostics for Compliance Admin, Security Admin, and Org Management roles27 Aug
- Enable smart tagging for eSigned documents in SharePoint27 Aug
- Microsoft Copilot dashboard (in Viva Insights): Adoption metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat27 Aug
- Data Access Governance - Site permissions for entire organization report - Available from SharePoint Admin center Portal27 Aug
- Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications27 Aug
- Dynamics 365 Sales - Get embedded experience for Copilot summaries27 Aug
- Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel26 Aug
- Retirement of Microsoft Places team guidance feature26 Aug
- Microsoft 365 admin center – Usage reports: Copilot Search usage26 Aug
- Microsoft Defender Core Service coming to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 201626 Aug
- Microsoft Intune In Development for September 2025 is now available26 Aug
- The August 2025 Windows non-security preview update is now available for some supported versions of Windows26 Aug
- Windows Backup for Organizations is now available26 Aug
- Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels25 Aug
- Upcoming Retirement of Sub-Domains Feature in Defender for Cloud Apps – Cloud Discovery25 Aug
- Microsoft Entra: Refreshed credential enrollment and management UX25 Aug
- Microsoft Viva : New Posts tab added to Communications dashboard25 Aug
- Executable name update for Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Windows25 Aug
- Get ready for Windows quality updates out of the box25 Aug
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