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Exchange auto-labeling supports non-mail enabled security groups

Service side auto-labeling now supports scoping of Exchange auto-labeling to non-mail enabled security groups. When this will happen: Rollout is expected to be complete by late November.  How this will affect your organization: Admins can create new or edit existing auto-labeling policies to include new Exchange locations for non-mail enabled security groups. What you need …

Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature to enable customers with Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) and the 10-Year Retention Add-on to create additional customized retention policies. When this will happen: Rollout to general availability in the worldwide clouds will begin in early December and is expected to be complete by late December. How this will …

Data Loss Prevention- simulation mode for DLP policies

Simulation mode in DLP provides DLP admins with an isolated experience to try a DLP policy, assess its impact, and build confidence in the policy efficacy to eventually reduce the time to policy enforcement. Simulation mode is an enhancement to the existing test mode behavior to help Admins evaluate new policies confidently. When this will …

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of browsed to generative AI websites indicator

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out the public preview of browsed to generative AI websites indicator. When this will happen: Rollout will begin mid-December and is expected to be complete by early January.  How this will affect your organization: With this update, we are adding a new indicator, “browsed to …

Announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome

November 17th, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome. How this will benefit your organization: When will this happen: New Teams on web begins rolling out today. How this will affect your organization: What you can do to prepare: Visit the support article or download resources to learn how to get …

SharePoint eSignature electronic signature service

SharePoint eSignature is Microsoft’s first party electronic signature service which allows users to easily request eSignatures on a PDF document via SharePoint online.  Signers can easily add their electronic signature. Signed documents are saved securely back to SharePoint. When this will happen: Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out to the US in late November …

Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting

Microsoft will be retiring the mail flow rule which help you track end user reporting. This change is being made to improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives) more quickly and efficiently. When this will happen: Microsoft will be gradually rolling this …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC Policy Handling

In order to better protect our customers from exact domain spoofing attacks and improve deliverability of email, Microsoft is making changes to how we handle DMARC p=reject and p=quarantine. For the enterprise customers, Microsoft is making updates to how DMARC policy-based reject can be handled. This change will help Security Administrators be able to choose …

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered

Public preview alert. We have started rolling out support for labeled PDF files in SharePoint Online. SharePoint now supports search, eDiscovery, DLP for sensitivity label encrypted PDFs. The sensitivity column will start showing the label names for newly uploaded PDF files. When this will happen: Preview: This rollout is underway and expected to complete by …

Reminder: Microsoft Defender for Office Empowers End Users to Report Suspicious Messages in Microsoft Teams

The ability for Microsoft Teams users to report internalchats, channels and meeting conversations within Teams as a security risk will be turned ON by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, …

Use double-key encryption to protect your most sensitive files and emails in Microsoft 365 Apps

To protect your most sensitive content, users of Microsoft 365 Apps can now use Double Key Encryption (DKE) for files and emails using the built-in labeling client. With DKE, Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure and you hold the other key, ensuring that only you can ever decrypt protected content, under all circumstances. Sensitivity labels configured …

OneDrive Sync Account Detection

In the past Windows Business users could add a consumer account to Windows to use within various apps.  Users could use this Consumer account to configure syncing their OneDrive consumer files via the OneDrive sync client. This summer the OneDrive Sync client will start prompting Business users if they’d like to sync their Consumer files …

Update your custom detections to leverage new ActionTypes in DeviceNetworkEvents

On July 18, 2023, Microsoft will be retiring a subset of signatures found in the “NetworkSignaturesInspected” action type of Advanced Hunting. With the recent integration of Zeek providing advanced protocol parsing capabilities, which result in better visibility into full network sessions compared to the raw packet bytes found in the “NetworkSignaturesInspected” action type of Advanced …

Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location

Set your work location for the day in Microsoft Teams so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration. When this will happen: Targeted Release and Preview: Microsoft has begun rollout and expect to complete rollout by late May. Standard Release: Microsoft expect to complete rollout by early August. How this …

Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps

Starting in September 2023, Microsoft will begin including new Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently, users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in classic Teams or having administrators …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

Microsoft will be updating the way intra-organizational SCL ratings are assigned for intra-organizational messages. When this will happen: Changes to logging intra-organizational messages will begin rolling out in early April and is expected to be complete by late June. How this will affect your organization: All intra-organizational messages are currently marked with SCL -1 (bypass …

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy tips revamp for Outlook for Windows

When this will happen: Rollout to Current Channel (preview) will begin in mid-March (previously early March) and is expected to be complete by early April (previously mid-March). Rollout to Current Channel will begin in early May (previously early April) and is expected to be complete by mid-May (previously late April).  How this will affect your …

Customize login pages in Attack Simulation Training

Attack Simulation Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It is available with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2 plan. As per the previous experience, users were directed to the Microsoft curated credential harvest login …

Cross-tenant User Data Migration [General Availability]

Historically, admins that needed to move mailboxes between Microsoft 365 tenants were required to export or offboard the mailbox to on-premises and then import or onboard the mailbox to a new tenant. Today, Microsoft is thrilled to announce that cross-tenant user data migration is now generally available. Specifically, the cross-tenant mailbox migration and cross-tenant OneDrive migration features previously in …

Update to Quarantine retention period for Malware detections

Given feedback from customer on the need for an additional time to triage the emails or files that were quarantined as result of potential malware, Microsoft is increasing the retention period from 15 days to 30 days. When this will happen Standard Release: will begin rolling this out by end of July and expect to …