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Microsoft Loop: Sensitivity labels at the container level

Coming soon: New security features for Microsoft Loop for organizations that have enabled sensitivity labels (also known as Microsoft Information Protection or MIP). Before this rollout, Microsoft Loop supports users or admins adding item-level sensitivity labels on all .loop files (including Loop components, Loop pages, and Copilot pages) in the Microsoft Loop app (on the web and …

Improved bulk detection and updated bulk complaint level recommendations

As part of ongoing improvements to bulk email filtering in Microsoft Defender for Office | Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft is refining our detection capabilities by recalibrating and redistributing bulk senders across different bulk complaint levels (BCL). This would automatically make the current bulk thresholds slightly more aggressive. As a consequence, Microsoft is updating bulk threshold for standard …

Power Platform – Prevent data exfiltration by securing app access feature – public preview

Microsoft is announcing that the prevent data exfiltration by securing app access feature will be available for public preview starting on October 7, 2024. How does this affect me?This feature will allow admins and makers to protect against data exfiltration by controlling what apps can be run in your Dataverse environment. This feature will help to prevent …

Exchange Online token deprecation plan

If your tenant uses legacy Exchange Online tokens, they will be deprecated and Outlook add-ins that still use them will break when tokens are turned off. NOTE: This change only applies to Exchange Online; add-ins used in on-premises environments are not impacted by this change. Recommended actions: When will Microsoft turn off legacy Exchange Online …

Insider Risk Management: Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will roll out exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails. When this will happen: General Availability: available since July 2024. How this will affect your organization: We are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business sensitive data is potentially leaked from a …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing Bulk Senders Insight to optimize bulk email management for enterprises

Bulk emails play a crucial role in modern enterprise communications. Determining the right balance of these messages—what should be allowed and what should be blocked—poses a significant challenge. Many organizations default to standard settings, often leading to issues like false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN) in email. With Bulk Senders Insight in Microsoft Exchange Online Protection …

Information Protection: Improved Data Loss Prevention policy tips

Through Microsoft Purview | Information Protection, and for greater consistency and reliability, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows will soon display the same Data Loss Prevention policy tips that admins have set in their tenants for files on Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft OneDrive sites. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Four override alerts retire in August 2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is retiring four legacy override alerts that are now mostly redundant due to Secure by default. With Secure by default, ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) blocks high confidence phishing emails by default despite the legacy overrides. The four alerts are: As part of the deprecation and rollout, When is the change? Microsoft plan to …

Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled

Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies, such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (sensitivity labels, rights management, and so on) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview …

Decoupling Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Process form Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Windows Devices

If you use a Firewall (Windows or 3rd party), non-Microsoft anti-malware, or application control solution and had to add the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint process to an allowlist to run, then an additional process (“MpDlpService.exe”) will need to be added to your allowlist. Starting June 2024, we will be decoupling the Microsoft Purview Data Loss …

New eDiscovery Hold reports

Coming soon: For Microsoft Purview, Microsoft will release a tenant-wide Hold report in eDiscovery (Premium). When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2024 and expect to complete by early June 2024. How this will affect your organization: The Hold report in eDiscovery (Premium) will let users with eDiscovery Administrator …

Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices

Microsoft Purview: Microsodt announced upcoming enhancements to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). With the forthcoming update, the capability to scan, classify, and protect sensitive content on Windows endpoint devices will be significantly expanded. The number of supported file types will increase from approximately 40 to over 100, aligning endpoint coverage with other platforms like …

Reported mailbox notifications messages subject change

Currently, in Microsoft Defender for Office 365, when a notification message is reported by an end user and arrives at the reporting mailbox, the subject lines begin with: Moving forward, the subject lines of notification messages reported by end users will start with This change is being made to ensure readability and enable you to create better …

Enhanced incident communication with DLP email templates

Coming soon for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Enhance your DLP incident management with the new send email notification remediation action and customize email templates in Purview DLP and Defender. Use dynamic variables and tokens to easily create and maintain consistent and efficient email communications, complete with an audit trail. Utilize these email templates to take …

Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will roll out exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails. When this will happen: Public Preview: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2024 and expect to complete by late May 2024. General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete …

Enhanced Submissions experience from Email entity and Summary panel

In Microsoft Defender XDR for Office 365, Microsoft is enhancing the Submit to Microsoft for review options on the Email entity page and Summary panel so admins can convey whether they are submitting for a second opinion or submitting to confirm a clean or a malicious verdict. In the same workflow, we are also introducing the Entities allow option that Security …

Microsoft Copilot in Outlook: Logging and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery support

Microsoft Outlook has added additional logging and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery support for Copilot in Outlook features that have already been released, and future Copilot in Outlook features as well. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac, web, iOS, Android, and the new Outlook for Windows. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft …

Azure Information Protection Add-in for Office – it is the end

The Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling add-in for Office is retired on April 11th, 2024. When this will happen: Important retirement milestones are: How this will affect your organization: To continue using sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection in Office applications, you must transition to the built-in labeling experience in Microsoft 365 …

Microsoft Teams: New tenant federation setting to block all subdomains of domains in blocklist

In Microsoft Teams, Microsoft has introduced a new Tenant Federation setting to block all subdomains of domains in the federation Block list. If your organization is using a Block list to protect your users from malicious or other domains, you should enable this new setting to also protect users from all related subdomains without manually …

Password protected download for quarantined emails from Email Entity

Microsoft is introducing password protected downloads of email messages from the Email Entity Summary Panel in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Today, password protected downloads are available from the Quarantine experience.  When this will happen: General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-March 2024 and expect to complete by late March 2024. How this will …