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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Dynamics 365 Sales – Get embedded experience for Copilot summaries

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

• Current Channel

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Retirement of Microsoft Places team guidance feature

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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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Microsoft 365 admin center – Usage reports: Copilot Search usage

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 27, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

A new Copilot Search usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center by early September 2025, showing user activity and search metrics. It is enabled by default, requires no setup, and helps organizations monitor Copilot Search adoption and usage trends.

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