Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, the generative AI apps indicators will be supported as triggers in Risky AI usage policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the generative AI apps indicators are used to determine risk score. 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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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Move conversation feature toggle

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Engage admins and network admins can change access to the move conversation feature with this new toggle. This feature helps customers manage how messages move across communities. When disabled, only admins, corporate communicators, community admins, and community experts can move conversations. When enabled (default), any user with access to a conversation can move it.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat-centered experience for creating new documents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

 In the Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad, users will see a chat-centered experience to create documents, enabling them to describe the document they want to create in a prompt.  

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Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings.

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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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Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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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Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.