Evolving the Microsoft Store for Business and Education

This message is for customers who are using Microsoft Store for Business or Education.

We are announcing exciting plans that bring together the manageability of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, the openness of the new Microsoft Store, and the flexibility of Windows Package Manager. These plans will enhance the new Microsoft Store experience that is coming soon to both Windows 11 and Windows 10.

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Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Windows 365

Windows 365 was announced on July 14, 2021.  Today we are also announcing that self-service purchasing capabilities are coming soon for Windows 365.  Individuals worldwide (excluding India) will be able to acquire a subscription for the following products as early as August 15, 2021: 

  • Windows 365 Enterprise
  • Windows 365 Business

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Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support auto-labeling (client-side)

Organizations will soon be able to configure new or existing client-side auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) sensitive information types, enabling more granular control over labeling sensitive content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82071

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Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (preview)

Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82086

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Announcing Communication Compliance discrimination classifier (preview)

We’re rolling out a new trainable classifier for the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81971.

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Announcing Communication Compliance cross tenant classifier feedback (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, cross tenant feedback in Communication Compliance enables you to provide feedback to Microsoft on misclassified messages (such as false positives) to help us improve the accuracy of the built-in trainable classifiers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81972.

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New Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendations in Microsoft Secure Score

We are adding twenty four recommendations for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help enterprise networks prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats.

When this will happen

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Announcing Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility

We’re rolling out new features to support enhanced policy management for the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82059.

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Microsoft 365 Information Governance

Until this release, attempting to delete a file with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” in SharePoint caused an error blocking the deletion of it.

To improve consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, the behavior of any retention label set to “retain items for a specific period” in SharePoint will change to allow users to “delete” the document which will then be preserved in the Preservation Hold Library until the specified period expires.

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Microsoft 365 Information Governance – Retention policies for Teams private channels messages

Until now, retention policies for Teams channel messages have excluded any private channel messages. With this new feature you will be able to apply retention policies to user messages shared within Teams private channels.

Retention policies scoped to private channel messages will require a separate policy from your Teams channels or chat policies.

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