Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – Manually apply and edit sensitivity labels on PDFs in Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels are natively integrated into Adobe Acrobat, enabling users to manually label files in Acrobat on the desktop (Windows and macOS).

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Jobs limit update (U.S. Government clouds)

The eDiscovery (Standard and Premium) jobs limit will be updated to provide users with better clarity on operational limit across the tenant. With simplified fewer jobs related limit, users will have better flexibility in managing these limits and how they are shared among different job types across the eDiscovery workflow.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Security Threat Submission API

The current Information Protection or Threat Assessment API does not support setting up end user reporting experiences and triaging samples reported by a user. The new Security Threat Submission API will address these scenarios and further improve existing capabilities. It was created using the Microsoft Graph Platform. The current API will continue to exist for several years to ensure existing processes are not affected, with eventual deprecation.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Support DKIM Domain as Sending Infrastructure for Spoof intelligence management

For Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection, we are adding support for providing “DKIM verified domain” as the “Sending Infrastructure” within Tenant allow-block lists-Spoofing, so that Security Administrators can better manage Anti-Spoofing activity and override it based on Spoof Intelligence. Currently, what is supported in this field is either the domain from DNS PTR record or /24 IP Subnet. Additionally, being able to specify a ‘DKIM verified domain’ will help serve scenarios where shared infrastructure provider services are used for sending emails. Since the DKIM domain is unique to each tenant and if it passes verification even when other authentication signals fail, if desired for legitimate business reasons, a spoofed message can still be allowed instead of being blocked.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/tenant-allow-block-list?view=o365-worldwide#domain-pair-syntax-for-spoofed-sender-entries-in-the-tenant-allowblock-list

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Word: Easily switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing a document in Word for Windows and Word for Mac

You can now switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing documents in Word based on the job that you are working on. (e.g., Viewing allows you to read the document without making accidental changes. Reviewing allows you to leave behind suggestions via tracked changes or comments).
More info: https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/easily-switch-between-editing-reviewing-and-viewing-documents-in-word

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Update to Quarantine notification default subject and review button

We will be updating the default subject within the Quarantine notification email that is sent to users.

When this will happen:

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Communication Compliance – Gain context around ML model policy matches (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re introducing machine learning (ML) model highlighting capabilities to enable Communication Compliance investigators to make more informed remediation actions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88917.

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Update to the Microsoft Cloud Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Cloud Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re rolling out several new classifiers for Communication Compliance to assist you in detecting various types of workplace policy violations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93251, 93253, 93254, 93255, 93256, 93257, 93258

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Communication Compliance: Expanded optical character recognition support (GA)

We’re expanding optical character recognition (OCR) support in Communication Compliance beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to also include handwritten and printed text. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88920, 93194

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