Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights

Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by removing the requirement for 50 M365 Copilot licenses, allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Collection policies impact on IRM

With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by Insider Risk Management policies Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-helper troubleshooting through Diagnostics page

Admin should be able to troubleshoot device health and policy sync health through Diagnostics page.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Data Access Governance – Site permissions for entire organization report – Available from SharePoint Admin center Portal

The Site permissions report for the entire organization is now accessible in the SharePoint Admin Center under Reports > Data Access Governance, eliminating the need for PowerShell. This feature, rolling out in August 2025, helps admins monitor site permission exposure and supports Microsoft Copilot adoption.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls

Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher Agent now lets users customize report length and output formats, including Word export. Rolling out worldwide in September 2025, these features are enabled by default, require no admin action, and offer control via Entra ID group membership.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications

Microsoft Viva Engage will roll out smarter Community Announcement notifications in September 2025, delivering alerts via the user’s most engaged channel (Teams, Mobile Push, or Email) to reduce notification fatigue. Secondary notifications follow if unopened. This uses recent user behavior data and respects notification preferences.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Dynamics 365 Sales – Get embedded experience for Copilot summaries

We are announcing an embedded experience for Copilot summaries in Dynamics 365 Sales. This feature will reach general availability on September 26, 2025.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Power Platform – IP firewall SPN filtering for application users is now available

We are announcing Service Principle Name (SPN) filtering for application users in Power Platform. This enhancement allows administrators to configure IP firewall settings to bypass or restrict access for specific third-party application users. Previously, IP firewall settings applied to all application users but now, admins can target access more precisely.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

• Current Channel

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Retirement of Microsoft Places team guidance feature

Microsoft is retiring the Team Guidance feature in Microsoft Places by November 3, 2025, to streamline collaboration and promote Microsoft 365 Groups. The retirement includes phased read-only and removal stages. Organizations should inform users, transition to Microsoft 365 Groups, and update training accordingly.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments