Windows Office Hours: June 19, 2025

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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Outlook: New Outlook Support For GCC-High and Sovereign Clouds

New Outlook will support the connection of accounts in special environments such as Microsoft 365 GCC High, Microsoft 365 DoD, and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet (China). In this release, all mailboxes connected to new Outlook will need to be hosted in the same special environment. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint

Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint

Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – On demand classification for files on Windows devices

This capability will enable organizations to scan files on Windows devices for sensitive information to meet data discovery requirements for regulatory purposes and inform data security posture accordingly.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices

Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users on devices. Adding DoD/GCC/GCC high expected dates

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat

Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources.

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Microsoft Viva Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard

New prompt categories will be added to the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights, including “Ask and find,” “Catch up,” “Draft and brainstorm,” and “Other.” These updates will be available by late July 2025, with no admin action required. Review and update internal documentation as needed.

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Microsoft Exchange Online: New Message Trace will be GA; legacy Message Trace will retire

The new Message Trace in Microsoft Exchange Online will be generally available from mid-June to late July 2025, with the legacy Message Trace retiring on September 1, 2025. Admins should transition to the new experience and update scripts using new cmdlets by August 31, 2025. No immediate admin action is required.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: Manage GDPR requests through the Engage admin center

Admins can now manage GDPR data subject requests directly in the Microsoft Viva Engage admin center, with the feature renamed from “Remove User” to “Manage GDPR data subject requests.” This change will be rolled out from late June 2025 to late July 2025, affecting both the web and Teams platforms. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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