60-day notice: Manage PAC Validation related to CVE-2024-26248 & CVE-2024-29056

Last year, Windows updates released on or after April 9, 2024 added new behaviors that start the process of addressing a security risk in the Kerberos PAC Validation Protocol. Presently, it is still possible to override the enforcement settings related to the new behaviors, and revert to a Compatibility mode.

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The February 2025 Windows security update is now available

The February 2025 security update is now available for all supported versions of Windows. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily accessible from the Windows 11 and Windows 10 update history pages. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained.
  

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Microsoft Teams Customer Office Hours: Get help from the product team on deploying Teams for your frontline workers

Note: If you are not using frontline worker functionality, you can safely ignore this message.

We are pleased to announce new weekly Microsoft Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours: A dedicated time for you to engage directly with the product team to support Teams deployments for your frontline workers.

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Microsoft Purview: Classic eDiscovery experience will retire

We will be retiring the classic eDiscovery including classic Content Search, eDiscovery (Standard), and eDiscovery (Premium) from the Microsoft 365 Purview portal starting August 1, 2025, and ending September 1, 2025. Instead, we recommend the new unified eDiscovery, which is faster and easier to use, combining standard and premium features, in a simpler workflow with robust reporting. We will continue to invest our development resources in the new unified eDiscovery.

Classic eDiscovery experience (red box) will retire. We recommend the new unified eDiscovery (green box) experience:

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Reminder: Hotpatch eligibility and prerequisites

Hotpatch is an extension of Windows Update, designed to reduce downtime and disruptions by allowing the installation of Monthly B release security updates without requiring a device restart. We encourage users to test and use Hotpatch.

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Microsoft Fabric: Microsoft.Fabric.ItemReadSucceeded and ItemReadFailed events will retire

In Microsoft Fabric, workspace item events in Fabric Real-Time hub (preview) allow you to receive notification when actions (such as when new artifacts are created or existing artifacts are deleted) occur for your workspace items. These events can be consumed via Fabric Eventstreams or used to alert on other actions or workflows in Fabric, such as running a data pipeline or sending an email notification using Fabric Data Activator alerting capabilities.

On March 17, 2025, the event types Microsoft.Fabric.ItemReadSucceeded and Microsoft.Fabric.ItemReadFailed, which are part of workspace item events in Fabric Real-Time hub (preview) will not be available for new event subscriptions. If users in your organization try to create new subscriptions after March 17, 2025, they will not be able to select these event types.

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Coming soon: Quality updates during the out-of-box experience

Soon, you’ll get an improved out-of-box experience (OOBE) of new Windows 11 devices. By mid-2025, a new policy will allow you to choose whether new Windows 11 devices on version 22H2 and higher get the latest applicable quality update during the OOBE. You’ll be able to configure the setting via Windows Autopilot and Windows Autopilot device preparation as a mobile device management (MDM) policy and a Group Policy.  
 

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Microsoft Viva: Tenant-wide notification settings moving to Viva Engage Admin center

We are modernizing the existing admin notification settings in Viva Engage to make admin notification settings and configuration more user-friendly and intuitive within Viva Engage. Previously, the tenant-wide notifications settings for admin configuration opened in legacy web pages. With this update, these notification settings will now appear under Viva Engage Admin center > Tenant settings. 

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Microsoft Purview | Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Full URL visibility for “File copied to cloud” event

Coming soon for Microsoft Purview | Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: In cloud egress events (File copied to cloud), you will soon be able to find out exactly where the data is moving with the new Full URL field in Activity Explorer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 471445.

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Windows 10 End of Support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Support ends soon for Window 10 on October 14, 2025, and devices will no longer receive security and feature updates. Upgrade your Teams Rooms on Windows devices now to Windows 11 for a smooth transition and get the latest productivity, security, and management features.

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