February M365 Compliance Spotlight

• Published 3 Feb 2022 – Message ID: MC320694 – Roadmap ID: 88872
• Summary: –
  • Coming soon to public preview, a new machine learning classifier for Communication Compliance will enable you to detect customer complaints.
• Message Centre Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center
• Document Library Link: –
  • https://compliance.microsoft.com/ | https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide
• Road Map Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 Roadmap – See What’s Coming | Microsoft 365

Published 4 Feb 2022 | MessageID: – MC320940

• Summary: –
  • Updated February 04, 2022: We have updated the post title to show as intended, the content below has not changed. Thank you for your patience.We are announcing that we will be completing the final step in the transition from the legacy Security & Compliance Center (SCC) portal to three new portals.  Due to the broad reception and adoption from you, our customers, to the new portals, we feel confident to complete the journey and make Microsoft 365 Defender portal, Microsoft Compliance center and the Modern Exchange Admin portal – the homes for Office 365 Security and Compliance management.Office 365 Security
    • In June 2021, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 capabilities in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com). Security teams can now manage all endpoint, email and collaboration, cross-product investigation, configuration, and remediation activities within a single unified XDR dashboard. Our efforts to bring these solutions together are part of our commitment to deliver world class SecOps capabilities that empower security teams to respond to threats more rapidly and effectively.
    • As previously messaged (MC276896 – August 2021), we announced and initiated the official transition of Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s home to be the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, with automatic redirection of all security features from Office 365 Security & compliance center (protection.office.com) to Microsoft 365 Defender (security.microsoft.com).

    Office 365 Compliance

    • As previously messaged (MC244886 – March 2021), we announced and initiated the official transition of Office 365 Compliance capabilities to the Microsoft 365 Compliance center (compliance.microsoft.com), with automatic redirection of all compliance and information protection capabilities from Office 365 Security & compliance center (protection.office.com) to Microsoft 365 Compliance center (compliance.microsoft.com). In October 2021, we completed the transition with permanent redirection to the Microsoft 365 Compliance center.

    Office 365 Mail flow

    • Mail flow features are moving to the Modern Exchange Admin Portal (Modern EAC, admin.exchange.microsoft.com) to align with the overall vision of the Microsoft 365 Experience. This will allow Exchange Administrators to have a consolidated and consistent experience giving the necessary insights and tools to help stay on top of your mail flow environment in one portal. We will continue to invest our resources into making this the best possible experience for our mail flow administrators.
  • Message Centre Link: –
    • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center

Published 4 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC321243 | Road Map ID: 88832

• Summary: –
  • The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. Currently, the Briefing email is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. We are expanding to support Exchange Online mailboxes in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
• Message Centre Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center
• Document Library Link: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/viva/insights/personal/Briefing/be-overview
• Road Map Link: –
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88832

Published 5 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC321247 | Roadmap ID: 88814

• Summary: –
  • Coming soon to general availability, the Import custodian’s wizard experience in Advanced eDiscovery allows eDiscovery managers to quickly validate and remediate any errors in their CSV file before submitting custodian import jobs.
• Message Centre Link:-
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center
• What you need to prepare: –
  • Your organization must have the appropriate organization subscription for Advanced eDiscovery, and you must be an eDiscovery Administrator in your organization to manage communication templates and issuing officers.
• Document Library: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/bulk-add-custodians?view=o365-worldwide
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/overview-ediscovery-20?view=o365-worldwide
• Road Map Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 Roadmap – See What’s Coming | Microsoft 365

Published 18 Dec 2021 | Message ID: MC306685 | Road Map ID: 88509

• Updated February 08, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are introducing a new capability to better manage the lifecycle of documents labeled as a record. This new feature enables Records Management administrators to create retention labels that will mark contents in SharePoint and OneDrive as records but will not be “locked” (restricted for edits) until a user manually locks it. This will help customers who use automatic or default labeling of content which includes documents in a draft state which are not yet final and will need to become a locked record until they reach this stage of their lifecycle.
• Message Centre Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center
• Road Map Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365

Published 15 Dec 2021 · Last updated 11 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC305436 | RoadMap ID: 88515

• Summary:
  • We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming to public preview, default labeling policies can now be applied to any supported document that a user edits, not just a new document.
• Document Library Links: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels?view=o365-worldwide#what-label-policies-can-do
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-office-apps?view=o365-worldwide#require-users-to-apply-a-label-to-their-email-and-documents
• Message Centre Link: –
  • https://admin.microsoft.com/?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC305436
• Road Map Link: –
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88515

Published 21 Jan 2022 · Last updated 11 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC316448

• Summary: –
  • With this update, which will improve the security of your tenant, Security & Compliance PowerShell will enable configuration of certificate-based authentication to allow unattended App-only access.
• Document Link: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#step-1-register-the-application-in-azure-ad
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#step-2-assign-api-permissions-to-the-application
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#step-3-generate-a-self-signed-certificate
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#step-4-attach-the-certificate-to-the-azure-ad-application
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#step-5-assign-azure-ad-roles-to-the-application
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/connect-to-scc-powershell?view=exchange-ps
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps
• Message Centre Link: –
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center

Published: 20 Jan 2022 · Last updated: 11 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC316441 | Road Map ID: 85667

• Summary: –
  • This new update will enable Teams DLP policies to protect chats in Teams. With this capability, all your existing and new policies will automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.
• Document Links: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/dlp-microsoft-teams?view=o365-worldwide
• Message Centre Link: –
  • https://admin.microsoft.com/?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC316441
• Road Map Link: –
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85667

Published: 18 Feb 2022 | Message Centre ID: MC334208 | Road Map ID: 88881

• Summary: –
  • This new feature (preview) will enhance the Advanced eDiscovery Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content.
• Document Library Links: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/overview-ediscovery-20?view=o365-worldwide
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/collection-statistics-reports?view=o365-worldwide#collection-contents
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/commit-draft-collection?view=o365-worldwide
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/document-metadata-fields-in-advanced-ediscovery?view=o365-worldwide
• Message Centre Link:
  • https://admin.microsoft.com/?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC334208
• Road Map Link:
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88881

Published: 18 Dec 2021 · Last updated: 18 Feb 2022 | Message Centre ID: MC306676 | Road Map ID: 88540

• Summary: –
  • Coming soon to public preview, hold reports in Advanced eDiscovery allows organizations to access built-in reports with information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.
• Document Link Library
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/managing-holds?view=o365-worldwide
• Message Centre Link:
  • Microsoft 365 admin center – Message center
• Road Map Link:
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88540

Published: 18 Feb 2022 | Message ID: MC334274 | Road Map ID: 70766

• Summary
  • Teams Connect shared channels will be rolling out to public preview in the coming weeks. Shared channels is a new channel type, in addition to the existing standard and private channel types. Shared channels enables users to collaborate seamlessly with internal and external partners beyond the boundaries of a team. Invite individuals or entire teams to a shared channel. These can either be from your org or from an external Azure AD org. Once added to a shared channel external users can access the channel right from their Teams account without having to switch organizations. External collaboration is off by default.
• Document Links: –
  • https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/cfcdfdfa-7401-414d-ab61-4e834281e7ae?source=sessions
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/public-preview-doc-updates
• Message Centre Link: –
  • https://admin.microsoft.com/?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC334274
• Road Map Link: –
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1%26filters=&searchterms=70766

Published: 1 Oct 2021 · Last updated: 22 Feb 2022 | Message Centre ID: MC288633 | Road Map ID: 82062

•  Summary
  • To improve performance, any file with multiple versions that is deleted from SharePoint or OneDrive which is preserved to the Preservation Hold Library (due to its applicable retention label, retention policies or eDiscovery holds) will now be retained as a single file containing its full version history, rather than each version being retained as individual files as has been the case until now.
  • Note: We had previously announced that this feature would begin rollout in the fall of 2021, however we are postponing this rollout until mid 2022. This allows our customers more time to prepare and for us to ensure that the rollout plan accommodates the end of year activities and minimizes the risk of impact.
• Document Library Links: –
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/create-ediscovery-holds?view=o365-worldwide#query-based-holds-placed-on-sites
• Message Centre Link: –
  • https://admin.microsoft.com/?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC288633
• Road Map Link: –
  • https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=82062