Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses?

In Communication Compliance, we’re introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety’s Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations.

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Admin usage reports for Loop

View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages

Communication Compliance introduces the ability to identify and flag potential workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages. Investigators now have an extra indication to decide what risk exists in user-reported messages and can configure an Inappropriate Content policy to proactively identify similar inappropriate content moving forward.

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities

Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced.

Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. Permissions for accessing analytics and user activity reports have not changed. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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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Power Platform – Move data across regions feature will be made available in more regions

Due to recent infrastructure updates, some Copilot features in environments based in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom may now process data outside of those regions. Please refer to this documentation for more information about which regions this data is processed in: Regions involved with copilots and generative AI features.

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Microsoft Teams: Brand impersonation protection for Teams Chat

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new security feature to alert users of potential brand impersonation in Teams Chat, particularly during initial contact from external domains. This feature will be automatically enabled, with rollout phases starting late October 2024 for Targeted Release and mid-November 2024 for General Availability. No admin configuration is needed, and users will be prompted with high-risk warnings when impersonation is detected.

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Support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 will end October 14, 2025: Upgrade recommended

Office 2016 and Office 2019 support will end on October 14, 2025. It is recommended to upgrade to Microsoft 365 E3 or Office LTSC 2024 for continued updates and support. Resources like upgrade guidance, Microsoft FastTrack, and the Office End of Support Tech Community are available to assist with the transition.

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Microsoft SharePoint eSignature: Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign integration will roll out globally

The message details the global rollout of Microsoft SharePoint eSignature integration with Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign, eliminating the need for native SharePoint eSignature activation. It will begin in early November 2024 and complete by mid-November. Admins must enable this feature in the Microsoft admin center. The rollout is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 421194.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open

Microsoft Teams on MacOS will soon open Microsoft Edge links directly, matching the authenticated profile for a seamless browsing experience. This feature, part of Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 414521, will start rolling out in late October 2024 and complete by late November 2024. Admins can set Edge as the default browser in Teams via policy. No action is required before the rollout.

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Manage web searches in Copilot separately from optional connected experiences with new policy

In November 2024, Microsoft will introduce the “Allow web search in Copilot” policy, enabling separate management of web searches in Microsoft 365 Copilot from other optional connected experiences. This policy allows for improved Copilot responses using Bing search service and can be configured at the user/group level.

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