Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails

Communication Compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Review – Query builder enhancements

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality including NOT/OR conditions, grouping, and alignment between Collections and Review query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Self-diagnostic tool for SPODB – Test-DlpPolicies

A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

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Retirement of Trello & Yelp add-ins for Outlook

The following Outlook add-ins are being retired:

  • Trello – allows the user to create, edit, and comment on Trello boards without leaving the inbox.
  • Yelp – allows the user to find and share great business around quickly through mail.

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Update to Defender for Cloud Apps IP addresses

Defender for Cloud Apps is updating its IP addresses related to ‘App connectors’ and ‘Third-party DLP integration’.

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Incident & Alert determination – retirement of old values

We recently changed the Incident and alert classification experience, including an updated classification and determination values list, previously supported values “Apt” and “SecurityPersonnel” will soon be retired.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Release of the Software Update Page (preview)

We’re introducing a quick and simple page where you can see the update status for devices in your organization. The initial launch of the software updates page in the Microsoft 365 admin center will focus on Windows and Office updates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82148, 88951

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Outlook to block new attachment file types to improve security

As we continually assess to improve security, we are adding additional attachment file types to the list of BlockedFileTypes.

When this will happen:

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