Preparing commercial Windows 10 devices for ESUs

Now that support for Windows 10 has officially ended, it is important that organizations with Windows 10 devices stay as protected as possible through the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. A new guide for Windows 10 ESU customers is now available, offering details on how to find, activate, and verify licenses on devices and endpoints.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations

Easily customize your prompt output with built-in controls to select your preferred style and choose the format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your organization brand kit to create on-brand content without manually uploading assets and describing your style.

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Microsoft Purview: Purview Information Protection | Classifier Simulation Mode (Health Monitoring)

Microsoft Purview introduces the Classifier Simulation Mode, the first phase of the broader Classifier Health Monitoring Platform.

This capability enables you to test, analyze, and optimize custom classifiers on production data before publishing them, hence offering a reliable means of verifying the effectiveness of classifiers before committing them to live environments.

Custom classifiers are powerful tools but can sometimes include inefficient regex patterns or overly broad logic, leading to Noisy classifier due to high matches, False positives and High scanning latency

Simulation Mode mitigates these risks by allowing you to validate classifier quality and performance before publishing, helping ensure healthy, performant, and more precise classification outcomes.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Apply your brand kit and style to visual creations

Easily customize your visual content with built-in controls to select your preferred style, choose your visual format, whether it’s a poster, infographic, or image and with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, apply your brand kit.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage private content in M365 Copilot

Engage content from private communities and events will be used as grounding source for M365 Copilot. When a user queries in M365 Copilot, they will only be able to see content they are privileged to access.

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Planner: Support for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity labels

Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) content sensitivity label support in Planner will enable encryption, restrict unauthorised actions such as copying, printing, or exporting plan contents, and add visual markings like watermarks for clear sensitivity awareness. By enforcing content-level protections, Planner will help organisations prevent data leaks, maintain compliance, and enable secure collaboration without affecting productivity.

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Dynamics 365 Sales – Enhance customer interactions with auto-linked CRM data

We are announcing the ability to enhance customer interactions with auto-linked CRM data in Dynamics 365 Sales.

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Retirement of Visio Data Visualizer Add-in for Microsoft Excel

The Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel will be retired: removed from the store on December 8, 2025, and its service shut down on March 2, 2026. Users must save existing diagrams as Visio files before then. Focus will shift to Visio Plan 2 and the Visio desktop app.

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Get started with October 2025 improvements in Windows 11

Start using the newest Windows 11 capabilities with helpful tips and actionable steps summarized in one place. Discover news about Microsoft Ignite 2025, update and driver management, Windows 11 productivity features, Microsoft Intune, AI capabilities, lifecycle milestones, security, and more. 

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Feature updates Policy Change: Deprecating Option for Windows 10 Feature Updates on Devices Ineligible for Windows 11

The option to install the latest Windows 10 feature update on devices ineligible for Windows 11 will be deprecated starting February 17, 2026. Existing policies will continue until then. Users should prepare for this change and can seek assistance via the Microsoft Intune admin center.

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