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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New Quarantine release details

In Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft is rolling out new details on who or what is responsible for releasing a message from quarantine. These details will now be included in the email summary flyout panel accessible from the Quarantine page. When this will happen: General Availability : Microsoft will begin rolling out late March …

[Public Preview] Insider Risk Management: Global exclusions

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of Global exclusions in the in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. When this will happen: Public Preview: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2024 and expect to complete by mid-May 2024. General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by …

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management- policy wizard enhancements [Public Preview]

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out a public preview of policy wizard enhancements. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own …

Data Loss Prevention – Enriched Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alert email notifications for DLP admins

There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admins upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy …

eDiscovery – Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100

The Microsoft Graph eDiscovery premium API that supports Purge for Teams messages will now expand to support items stored in Microsoft Exchange including emails, calendar invitations, and more. In addition to expanding to support Exchange email items and Microsoft Teams, the limit for each purge action per unique location will expand from 10 items per …

[MDO] Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management

In Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft is updating the way end users allow and block emails in Exchange Online.  When this will happen: Microsoft will begin rolling out late April 2024 and expect to complete by mid-May 2024. How this will affect your organization: With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted …

Data Loss Prevention: Turning on DLP analytics

In Microsoft Purview, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) analytics is a feature that enables you to analyze data protection challenges, gaps, policy, and posture enhancement possibilities in the organization. Use intelligent Purview features to explore these challenges and resolve them in a few easy steps. After you turn on analytics, you can review analytics and recommendations …

Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange

Microsoft is adding new fields in Microsoft Exchange to help prevent data loss. With these updates, admins can see more details about the attachments that are present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules, including name, size, and labels. There will be new fields for the attachments that are in emails when …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Block Sender in Quarantine notification will require signing in to security portal

Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management, sign in to the security portal will be required for the Block Sender action in Quarantine notifications.  When this will happen: Microsoft will begin rolling out early March 2024 and expect to complete by mid-March 2024. How this will affect your organization: When the user clicks on …

Suspension of Azure Application Administrator role for Management of add-ins across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Admins can manage add-ins across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from the Integrated Apps blade in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. This capability is currently available to Global Administrators, Global Readers, Exchange Administrators, and Azure Application Administrators. Going forward, Microsoft is suspending capability for Azure Application Administrators from management of add-ins across Outlook, Word, Excel, and …

Retirement of AdminAuditLog and MailboxAuditLog cmdlets

Microsoft would like to inform you about an upcoming change in the way you access and manage your Exchange Online audit logs. Starting April 30, 2024, Microsoft will be retiring the following four cmdlets in the Exchange Online V3 module: When this will happen: Microsoft will roll out this change late April 2024 and expect …

Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels

This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations. When this will happen: Microsoft will begin rolling out in late December 2023 and complete by early February 2024. How this will affect your organization: 1. Assign …

Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.   When this will happen: Rollout will begin in mid-January 2024 and is expected to be complete …

“Open Microsoft 365” button in Outlook Preview

Currently, there is there no support available for iOS users looking to edit PDF files on the previewer in Outlook mobile. Microsoft is rolling out a new “Open Microsoft 365” button that helps users open/edit PDF files received on Outlook through the Microsoft 365 for mobile app. When this will happen: Microsoft will begin rolling …

Announcing GA of “Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine” in DLP EXO

Currently available in preview, Microsoft is rolling out a new action for Data Loss Prevention in Exchange Online called “Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine”.  When this will happen: Rollout is expected to be complete by late November 2023. How this will affect your organization: Previously while managing messages delivered to hosted quarantine, admins …

Required Configuration for Phishing Simulation emails

Exchange online protection (EOP)/ Defender for Office 365 (MDO) customers who want to send phishing simulation emails, need to configure advance delivery policy for optimal behavior. This policy will ensure that emails that match your conditions are delivered unfiltered to the Inbox and that safe links time of click protection and post-delivery actions are disabled. …

Outlook web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365

The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced by Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365. When this will happen: Microsoft expect to complete by mid-February 2024. How this affects your organization: At the end of 2023, we will be ending support for Activity-Based Authentication Timeout, at that point all organizations who …

Retiring “MDE Settings” and “New version” options from Threat Explorer

Microsoft will be retiring the “MDE Settings” and “New version” options from Threat Explorer as they work to clean up and streamline the user experience. When this will happen: Microsoft expect to complete by late December 2023. How this will affect your organization: Users and Administrators will no longer see the “MDE Settings” and “New …

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility

As a part of the extensibility vision of Microsoft and first release to Microsoft Graph, Microsoft is introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far. These APIs …

Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.   When this will happen: Rollout will begin in late December 2023 (previously late November) and is …