View status of a file being processed by a Syntex model

We are adding a new column to inform users of the status of a file being processed by Syntex. The listed states will inform whether processing has started, finished, or wasn’t done due to an error with the file or the job. This will help users know whether a file needs to be re-enqueued for processing or additional investigation is required.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161919

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Guest reviewer (GA)

The Guest Reviewer feature which has been in Public Preview is now being released to general availability.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98093

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal

Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 152126

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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Download File Evidence for DLP Investigations (Preview)

We are announcing a new feature in public preview which provides DLP investigators the option to download the full file from SharePoint and/or OneDrive for Business that resulted in a DLP policy match as evidence for DLP Alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal and Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161943

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [OCR] [ODSP] OCR Support for embedded images on SPOD

Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images.

Aim is to Support OCR for images embedded in:
1. Hybrid PDF file – PDF files with both images and searchable text
2. Office files – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX
3. Container files – zip, rar, 7z, etc.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration

With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning.

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Planner: Planner component in Microsoft Loop

Users of Planner and Loop will be able to bring their plans into Loop-enabled apps as a Planner component. Using the power of Loop, you’ll be able to view and edit a plan with Planner’s board view in context with your other work. The component will first be available in the Loop app. Support for other Loop-enabled apps will follow.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/office/use-the-planner-component-in-loop-545e967a-7c69-4e9a-9458-dfabdcf1d752

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label”

Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition “content contains sensitivity label” to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported.
This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to Precedence of User and Organizational Email Allows and Blocks

This post applies to customers with Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plan 1 and plan 2 service plans.

We will be updating how tenant and user allows are handled in the filtering stack to better align with customer expectations. These changes will provide more controls for the tenant administrators and ensure that users are better protected.

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