Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) for macOS

Currently available in public preview, Endpoint DLP for macOS extends the activity monitoring and protection capabilities of DLP to sensitive items that are on macOS devices. Once the Mac devices are onboarded into device management, the information about what users are doing with sensitive items is made visible in activity explorer and you can enforce protective actions on those items via DLP policies.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/endpoint-dlp-getting-started?view=o365-worldwide#macos-onboarding-procedures

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Core and Advanced eDiscovery – Enhanced Keyword Query Language (KQL) editor experience (US Government clouds)

The new Keyword Query Language (KQL) editor experiences improves the ability to quickly create an effective query with autofill of common properties and parameters, as well as highlights for potential and breaking errors with recommended mitigations. The KQL editor experience will be available across Core eDiscovery searches and Advanced eDiscovery collections experiences.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collections and processing enhancement (US Government clouds)

Enhancements to the Advanced eDiscovery Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery: Support Teams reactions (US Government clouds)

Discover Teams reactions (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, surprised, angry) in Advanced eDiscovery.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Expanded Optical Character Recognition to support handwritten and printed text

Expanding optical character recognition beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to include handwritten and printed text, which will then be evaluated against the customers policy conditions (such as keywords matches for threatening language), further reducing an organizations policy violation risk.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate messages in Teams

Microsoft Teams users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning messages within Teams chat and channels. These reported messages are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for investigators to review and take action if deemed necessary.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Prioritize policy matches using Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis, messages will be flagged as positive, negative, or neutral sentiment, helping you prioritize riskier messages to address first.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond to communication compliance alerts promptly.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Gain context around ML model policy matches

Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Accelerate onboarding with step-by-step guidance

This feature will provide step-by-step guidance on how to properly configure, triage, and remediate policies, highlighting tasks that are heavily leveraged by a user’s role group.

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