Hard Delete now removes calendar entries from malicious meeting invites, closing a security gap by fully eradicating threats from inboxes and calendars. This update rolls out worldwide in September 2025 and GCC regions in October 2025, is on by default, and requires no user action.
Microsoft Defender for Identity will update several detections from late September to mid-October 2025 to reduce false positives and improve accuracy, lowering alert noise without requiring configuration changes. Admins should review alert volumes post-rollout and inform their security teams accordingly.
The Teams Rooms usage report in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal will include people count data from Cloud IntelliFrame, enhancing occupancy insights for Windows devices with Teams Rooms Pro licenses. This update rolls out worldwide in October 2025 with no policy changes required.
Starting September 2025, Microsoft Defender Antivirus will require the AVSignatureDue policy minimum to be 2 days (up from 1 day) to prevent false alerts. Organizations with settings below 2 days should update their configuration before rollout completes in mid-October 2025.
Teams on iPad will now support a separate popout window for meetings, enhancing multi-tasking capabilities.
When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation.
We are modernizing the AIR platform for increased scalability and speed of AIR investigations to deliver the user submission playbook faster including quicker verdicts and faster resolutions.
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