Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Adaptive Protection integration will be generally available

The integration of Adaptive Protection with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention will be generally available soon, requiring an E5 Compliance license. Organizations previously using Adaptive Protection with certain add-ons will need to upgrade to maintain access after a 180-day grace period. Rollout begins in June 2024.

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Microsoft Purview: Improved Custom Trainable Classifier now in Public Preview

Microsoft Purview’s improved Custom Trainable Classifier is now in Public Preview, offering faster training, simpler sample gathering, automatic testing, and clearer creation flow. It supports English files and will replace the existing feature, with full rollout by late June 2024. Unpublished classifiers will be unavailable; users should publish them to retain.

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Power Platform – Modern hierarchy security setting redirection from Dynamics 365 portal to Power Platform admin center

We are announcing the general availability of modern hierarchy security setting URL redirection. This was made available via public preview on February 28, 2024, and will be available as part of general availability starting May 15, 2024.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Record opening behavior improvement in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint)

When a user opens a file in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) that has a retention label managing the file as a locked record, it will now open as read-only and immediately not allow any user edits. A message will explain to the user why they cannot edit the file. This improvement brings parity to the behavior already in place for the online versions of these Office applications.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3

Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources.

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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints

DLP will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. On inspection, all the files (of supported file format) within the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies. Afterwards, the archive file will get the applicable auditing / enforcement policy applied to it based on the following logic.

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Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE

Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool.

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Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link

Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Topic Subscription notification

This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users would receive a Teams and Engage bell notification whenever a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or the topic is added to an existing post.

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