Microsoft Outlook: Support pop-up messages in Outlook that warn, justify, or block emails being sent with sensitivity labels

Outlook desktop native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block email being sent. Admin could use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to define the oversharing pop-up DLP rules(Roadmap 100157) to group of users. If users has the configured DLP rule trigger when they click send, a warn/justify/block pop up message will show up to make sure customer could comply admin’s security double check requirements. As the first stage, Outlook desktop will only support these Pop-up message for DLP rule regarding sending emails to external with specific email and attachment labels. More DLP condition support will come later.

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Microsoft Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label

Outlook desktop will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admin could configure this either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy(Roadmap: 100158). Customer will see automatically or recommendations that email gets the higher label from attachments’ label.

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Outlook: S/MIME sensitivity label support natively on Outlook for Windows

Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Admins can define the label to have S/MIME sign, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly.
More info: https//www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93199

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Outlook: Simplified and Classic Ribbons

Outlook on the Web will be adding support for two new ribbon types. Simplified
and classic. These ribbons are modeled after classic Outlook for Windows simplified and
classic ribbons, to provide a more familiar experience across apps.

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Outlook: Outlook Lite for Android

An Android app that brings the main benefits of Outlook in a smaller app size with fast performance for lightweight devices on any network.

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Outlook: Mac to Mobile Handoff

Handoff is a capability within Apple devices that transfers user activities among multiple devices associated with the same user. For Outlook, this means that introducing this feature will allow a user to start off on an activity like read or compose within Outlook on one Apple device (Mac/Mobile) and be able to continue that activity from its current point on Outlook on another Apple device (Mac/Mobile).

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Outlook: Outlook Lite for Android

An Android app that brings the main benefits of Outlook in a smaller app size with fast performance for low-end devices on any network.

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Outlook: Mac to Mobile Handoff

Handoff is a capability within Apple devices that transfers user activities among multiple devices associated with the same user. For Outlook, this means that introducing this feature will allow a user to start off on an activity like read or compose within Outlook on one Apple device (Mac/Mobile) and be able to continue that activity from its current point on Outlook on another Apple device (Mac/Mobile).

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Outlook: Mobile to Mac Handoff

Handoff is a capability within Apple devices that transfers user activities among multiple devices associated with the same user. For Outlook, this means that introducing this feature will allow a user to start off on an activity like read or compose within Outlook on one Apple device (Mobile/Mac) and be able to continue that activity from its current point on Outlook on another Apple device (Mobile/Mac).

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Outlook: Friendlier link names will now work for files added to messages through the “attach” icon

Links to files attached to a message from cloud locations connected to Outlook on the Web will be displayed as a link in the body of the message instead of cloud attachments. The link will have the name of the file.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/friendlier-link-names-in-email-02040f47-bd56-4806-8311-fc913fed54c0#:~:text=On%20the%20Message%20tab%2C%20select%20Link%20%3E%20Insert,URL%20to%20the%20name%20of%20the%20inserted%20file.

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