Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoint – Protect sensitive text when it is shared through Web forms

This capability extends Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for endpoints’ data protection controls for sensitive files and unsanctioned sites to also include sensitive data that’s shared through text. (e.g. pasted into a Web survey form).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Test function for Exact Data Match will include results for configured primary elements

When using the test function in the Compliance portal or in PowerShell to test Exact Data Match (EDM) matches, the resulting EDM matches will be returned along with matches for the Sensitive Information Types (SITs) configured as EDM primary elements to help admins troubleshoot when EDM is not returning expected matches.

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Outlook: Understand and update sharing privileges on OneDrive and SharePoint links

Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.

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Windows 365: Cross-region disaster recovery (BCDR)

Windows 365’s cross-region BCDR capability will enable customers to achieve greater data resilience by maintaining additional geographically diverse copies of their Cloud PCs. This includes the ability to recover Cloud PC instances, along with user context (optional), in the event of an Azure full region outage. We are targeting a private preview by the end of 2023.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files

This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files.

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Windows 365: Cross-region disaster recovery (BCDR)

Windows 365’s cross-region BCDR capability will enable customers to achieve greater data resilience by maintaining additional geographically diverse copies of their Cloud PCs. This includes the ability to recover Cloud PC instances, along with user context (optional), in the event of an Azure full region outage. We are targeting a private preview by the end of 2023.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope

Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. 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: Audit – Audit Search Graph API

Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

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Microsoft Viva: New location for saved feed items on Viva Connections Mobile

Updating the location for saved feed items to make it easy for users to find the same.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators

With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. 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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