Update to role-based permissions for Activity explorer

We are updating the permissions requirements for Activity explorer within the Microsoft 365 compliance center to ensure that only explicitly assigned role groups and specific roles have access to data sets in Activity explorer.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac is retiring support of macOS Mojave [10.14]

Note: this message applies only to organizations with macOS devices in their environments.

Beginning December 15, 2021 , Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly known as MDATP) will no longer support macOS version Mojave 10.14 Apple ended support for Mojave 10.14 in November 2021.

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Announcing continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center

We’re enhancing Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation functionality, and enabling additional improvement actions and solutions for automated testing.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72222.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center – Public preview of historical versions for Advanced eDiscovery

Coming soon (public preview), historical versions in Advanced eDiscovery allows organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions that may be relevant given the content included in the document at the time of the version.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81898.

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Communication Compliance – new features coming to public preview

As announced at Ignite, we are releasing several preview updates for the Communication Compliance solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center including Day Zero insights, a new activity summary report, and additional language support for built-in classifiers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85650, 85652, and 85653.

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App governance now generally available

App governance is moving from preview to GA and will be available via Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) as of early November.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85648

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Microsoft Cloud App Security name is changing

Microsoft Cloud App Security is being renamed to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

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Compliance Manager: New assessment templates for Azure and Dynamics 365 (preview) plus Zero Trust controls (GA)

As announced at Ignite, we’re introducing new assessment templates and controls to help you extend compliance beyond Microsoft 365 and better meet compliance requirements with a Zero Trust approach.

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Records management Advanced eDiscovery – Preserve and discover the file version shared as cloud attachment

To help you efficiently meet regulatory obligations and improve the discovery of all elements which are part of electronic communications, Advanced eDiscovery will soon support the ability to discover the specific version of a file at the time that it was shared. This is facilitated by a new Records Management capability that enables you to automatically apply a retention label to the version of files shared as cloud attachments.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70580 and 70718.

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Service Communications API retirement

As previously announced in (MC275573 – Aug), the legacy version of the Service Communications API will be retired on December 17th, 2021. The new service communications API in Microsoft Graph replaces the legacy version of the API and provides access to Message center and Service health posts for your tenant.

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