Windows Office Hours: October 16, 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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Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Use optimized setting to update presence

We are announcing the ability to use an optimized setting to update presence in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. This feature will reach general availability on October 31, 2025.

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Communication Compliance-Timeline view of user activity

This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user’s potentially risky interactions. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user’s history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective.

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OneNote: Copilot Notebook in OneNote iPhone and iPad

Users will be able to use Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on iPhone and iPad.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Introduction of pay-as-you-go feature usage report

Introducing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pay-as-you-go feature usage report designed to provide transparency to the customers, enabling more accurate budget planning and policy tuning. This report provides granular breakdowns of billed processing unit usage across different data source categories and activity indicators over time, empowering IRM admins to identify cost-saving opportunities and tune their policies.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Seamless Search and Chat Integration

Microsoft 365 Chat brings the power of conversational AI directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, enabling users to move effortlessly from finding information to acting on it. Search results become the foundation for contextual chat, allowing you to ask follow-up questions, synthesize insights, and generate content—all in one unified experience. This integration reduces workflow fragmentation, accelerates decision-making, and delivers a more intuitive way to interact with your organization’s knowledge.

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Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks

Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook.

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Power Automate – HTTP and Teams webhook trigger flows are moving to new URLs

As of August 2025, Power Automate flows and Agent flows (Copilot Studio) with HTTP triggers or Teams Webhook triggers that have logic.azure.com in the URL moved to a new URL as a part of a critical infrastructure upgrade to improve execution speed and provide new features.

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Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in Shared Channels

Microsoft Teams now supports apps in Shared Channels, enabling bots, tabs, and message extensions for richer collaboration. Apps must be added per channel with new governance controls. Rollout starts October 2025. Admins and developers should update policies and app manifests for compatibility. Private Channel support will follow.

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Teams Search now respects hidden user attributes without requiring “Scope Search”

Starting October 2025, Teams will respect hidden user attributes like ShowInAddressList without needing Scope Search, aligning with Outlook and Exchange. Admins should review and update attribute settings, disable Scope Search if only used for hiding users, and inform support teams accordingly.

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