Microsoft Purview | DLP Document Fingerprinting support for additional workloads (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re extending Document Fingerprinting SITs in DLP policies to include support for additional workloads.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93280.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Ability to clone DLP policies (GA)

Coming soon to the Microsoft Purview compliance center, we’re rolling out the ability to clone Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93312.

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Microsoft Secure Score is removing retired improvement action for Exchange Online

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

This update will include removing the following improvement action related to Exchange Online as it is no longer relevant:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Recipient Block Using Tenant Allow/Block List Senders

Today, the Tenant Allow/block List is used to prevent users from receiving email from selected senders using the sender block. However, users are still able to send email to that email address or domain as recipient. With this update, the Tenant Allow/block List will be extended to prevent users from sending emails to these email addresses and domains that are added or part of the sender block list.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93363

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eDiscovery (Premium) Records Management – Discover the document version that has been shared (preview)

This update was previously communicated in November 2021 (MC295570) but experienced unforeseen delays during rollout. We truly appreciate your patience as we’ve worked diligently to resolve these issues. We are now ready at last to announce an updated timeline for rollout of these features.

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Microsoft Purview: Exact Data Match support for eDiscovery and Insider Risk Management

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery search queries and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management policy configuration will now support Exact Data Match (EDM) classification capabilities. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93286 and 93287

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle & Records Management & eDiscovery- Rollout update: optimized file version behavior

To improve the consistency of experience and performance, any file with multiple versions that is deleted from SharePoint or OneDrive which is preserved to the Preservation Hold Library (due to its applicable retention label, retention policies or eDiscovery holds) will now be retained as a single file containing its full version history, rather than each version being retained as individual files as has been the case until now.

We are pleased to confirm that rollout of this feature (originally announced in MC288633 October ’21) is now unblocked and will begin in mid-July 2022.

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Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery (Premium and Standard) – Jobs limit update

Beginning in July 2022, we are making changes to jobs-related limits enforced in eDiscovery (Premium and Standard) solutions to give your organization’s eDiscovery administrators and managers greater flexibility on how jobs are run and what types of jobs can be run at the same time.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85583.

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Option to automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related message directly using Admin Submissions

Today security administrators can use the Submissions page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to submit email messages, URLs, and attachments to Microsoft for scanning

We are enhancing the email submission capability with an option to automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related emails from senders/infrastructure that were classified as legitimate by the admin, despite being initially blocked by the system. This will help mitigate false positives while the system continues to learn.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity labels now apply to modified documents (WXP on PC and Mac)

Coming soon to public preview, default labeling policies can be applied to any supported document that a user edits, not just a new document. This update applies to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on PC and Mac platforms. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93209.

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