Microsoft 365 compliance center: Built-in filters in Activity explorer

We are releasing built-in filters for use within Activity explorer to allow easy access to the most used filters.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance: Retention label deletion behavior change in SharePoint for Government clouds

Improved consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, allowing users to “delete” files labeled with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” as this operation is no longer blocked with an error message. When deleted, these files will still be preserved for compliance purposes by moving a copy of them to the “Preservation Hold Library” of the site where they can be accessed by eDiscovery and other compliance solutions.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Historical versions for Government clouds

,Now eDiscovery admins can designate specific SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites to enable for historical versions functionality. This capability will enable organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions of the document.
Preview date: February CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Identify Teams as data sources

Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Enhanced import custodians wizard experience

The new import custodians wizard empowers eDiscovery managers to quickly validate and remediate any errors in their CSV file before submitting custodian import jobs.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold reports

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Communication templates and issuing officer settings

Create communication templates and then simply select one to quickly draft your hold notifications. Add attorneys as issuing officers for your organization to send hold notifications on behalf of, without adding them as case members.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (DoD)

Power BI will send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Azure Information Protection (AIP), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: AIP client and scanner data surfaced in Content explorer

All files detected by the AIP_Onprem_scanner via the ‘Discover’ event will be showcased in the Content explorer under two new on-premises locations: File Share and SharePoint Server.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-content-explorer?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Native triggers (New signals, indicator selection, customization, Activity explorer)

You can choose to assign selected indicators as triggering events for a policy. This flexibility and customization help scope the policy to only the activities covered by the indicators. Also, you can customize thresholds for each triggering event. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security, and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-policies?view=o365-worldwide#general-data-leaks
Preview date: December CY2021

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