We’re improving search usage reports with Microsoft Search

Search usage reports enable you to gain more understanding of how search functions and the value of Microsoft Search for your organization. The insights generated from these reports will empower you to take actions that will optimize the search experience and improve productivity for your organization. We are continuously adding new features and capabilities to help search administrators gain insights into the search usage within their organizations.

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Three New Wizards for Compliance Manager, eDiscovery, and Audit

New self-service automation wizards for Compliance Manager, eDiscovery, and Audit in the Advanced Deployment Guides.

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Announcing option to automatically turn on Microsoft Purview Information Protection auto-labeling policy

Admins will now have the capability to configure their auto-labeling policies to be automatically turned on for you if there aren’t any changes to the policy within a set number of days from completion of the simulation. This option is available in the auto-labeling policy setup within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, as part of the default auto-labeling policy setup, and via cmdlet.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93330

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Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re rolling out several new classifiers for Communication Compliance to assist you in detecting various types of workplace policy violations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93251, 93253, 93254, 93255, 93256, 93257, 93258

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Update to the Microsoft Cloud Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Cloud Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Communication Compliance: Expanded optical character recognition support (GA)

We’re expanding optical character recognition (OCR) support in Communication Compliance beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to also include handwritten and printed text. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88920, 93194

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Communication Compliance – Gain context around ML model policy matches (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re introducing machine learning (ML) model highlighting capabilities to enable Communication Compliance investigators to make more informed remediation actions.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) supports Teams reactions

eDiscovery (Premium) will soon support discovery of reactions to Microsoft Teams chat and channel messages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65130.

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Microsoft 365 Admin Center: GroupID to be Hidden by Default in Microsoft 365 Active User Reports

We will be hiding the GroupID variable in Microsoft 365 Usage Reports in the ‘Groups activity’ section of the ‘Active users – Microsoft 365 Services’ and ‘Active Users – Microsoft 365 Apps’ from June 2023.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93308

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General availability of Advanced Message Encryption – Office 365 Message Encryption portal access logs

Coming soon to general availability, admins will be able to enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail. This feature is currently in public preview.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88914.

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