Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement actions for Microsoft Defender for Identity

Updated June 16, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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

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Records Management – Configure a record label to start unlocked for user-driven records declaration

Coming soon to general availability, we are introducing a new capability to better manage the lifecycle of documents labeled as a record. This feature enables Records Management administrators to create retention labels that will mark contents in SharePoint and OneDrive as records but will not be “locked” (restricted for edits) until a user manually locks it. This will help customers who use automatic or default labeling of content which includes documents in a draft state which are not yet final and will need to become a locked record until they reach this stage of their lifecycle.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88509.

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IE11 desktop application has retired and is out of support as of June 15, 2022 (non-LTSC, non-Server)

As previously communicated, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application has retired and is out of support as of today, June 15, 2022. Following industry best practices, the IE desktop application will be progressively redirected to Microsoft Edge over the next few months and after will ultimately be permanently disabled via a future Windows Update to help ensure a smooth retirement.

If you have not set up IE mode in Microsoft Edge, we recommend doing so as soon as possible to help avoid business disruption.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Configure Display Colors for Sensitivity Labels (preview)

Updated June 14, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re simplifying the policy management experience and enhancing the user experience for seeing and selecting sensitivity labels within Office apps by enabling display color configuration for labels.

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Bing Image Search for Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to search online images through Bing is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93341

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Apply default sensitivity label to unlabeled files uploaded to SharePoint document library (preview)

Coming soon to public preview for Microsoft Purview Information Protection, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the SharePoint Online document library (if not already labeled). 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85621

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Microsoft Purview Audit: Preview of New Search functionality

Coming soon to public preview, we’re introducing new search functionality for Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93236.

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Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Legacy reporting will be removed from the Microsoft browser usage report

Following the upcoming retirement of the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application on certain versions of Windows 10 (June 15), updates will be made to the reporting in the Microsoft Browser usage report. Beginning at the end of June 2022, all reporting for unsupported Microsoft browsers will be removed. This includes the removal of Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge Legacy. Reporting on usage for Microsoft Edge will remain available. 

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Maintain protection when creating PDFs (preview)

Updated June 10, 2022: Please review the blog post: Apply sensitivity labels to PDFs created with Office apps for additional details.

Coming soon to public preview, we’re introducing the ability to maintain label and protection for PDF files created from Microsoft Office apps.  

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Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement action for App governance

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

This update will be available for customers with an active app governance license. The update includes a new recommendation ‘Regulate apps with priority account consent’ as a Microsoft Secure Score improvement action.

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