What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for July 2025

The Microsoft Intune service update for July 2025 is now live with a new service build. The release number will appear in the Tenant Status blade. Users should review the latest features and updates on the Intune What’s New and service update blogs to prepare.

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Plan for Change: Removing ‘Incomplete user enrollment’ report from Intune

The “Incomplete user enrollment” report and related Graph APIs will be removed from Intune in the August (2508) release. Users must update documentation and automation, and switch to the “Enrollment failures” report for enrollment failure details.

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Live Q&A for Windows IT admins – July 28

On July 28, you can participate in three hours of live Q&A with the engineering teams behind the latest Windows deployment, servicing, and management capabilities. The agenda features three hours of Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) sessions: 

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Microsoft Viva: Action Taking Analysis Report

Introduction of a new report that provides transparency into platform activity by dashboard users. Metrics such as report views, Team Conversations completed, Focus Areas created, and more will be visible and filterable with this report.

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Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements

Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): On-Canvas Copilot and Private Preview in Shared Pages

After making changes to a shared page via chat or on-canvas Copilot, responses appear as private previews, showing content suggestions that you can edit and preview privately before applying them.

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Planner: Information Barrier support in Planner

Information Barrier (IB) support in Microsoft Planner will enable organizations to restrict access to plans and tasks based on user groups. IB will help prevent data leakage, enforce internal policies, and support regulatory mandates by limiting plan visibility and collaboration to authorized segments.

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Microsoft Teams: Regional Settings Separation

Regional Settings Separation in Microsoft Teams is designed to give users full control over UI language, date, and time formats – either synced with their OS or set manually – for a seamless, globally personalized experience that also addresses common synchronization issues.

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection- Scan existing files in SharePoint and OneDrive for business for sensitive information

This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for business for sensitive data.

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Important Update: Teams Meeting Join URL Validation

Microsoft Teams will validate meeting join URLs starting September 30, 2025 (November 30 for GCC/DoD) to prevent altered or rewritten links from being used. Security products must avoid rewriting these URLs to prevent users from being blocked. No admin action is needed, but organizations should update security policies accordingly.

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