A list of all the feature and major updates from September 2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Core and Advanced eDiscovery: Enhanced Keyword Query Language (KQL) editor experience.
Published 29 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC288050 – Road Map ID: 85582
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- The new KQL editor experiences provide a quick way to get started building complex queries across Core eDiscovery holds and search, and Advanced eDiscovery holds and collections.
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Announcing general availability of OneDrive data in Content Explorer.
Published 19 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC286077 – Roadmap ID: 85626
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- Currently in public preview, you will soon be able to view data classification details for OneDrive data within Content Explorer.
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Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: New and updated sensitive information types (SITs) for compliance solutions
Published 18 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC285913 – Roadmap ID: N/A
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- In our continued efforts to improve the coverage and accuracy of out-of-the-box sensitive information types (SITs), we are adding 5 new SITs and updating the definition of some existing SITs. These new and updated SITs can be used in compliance solutions within the Microsoft 365 Compliance Centre.
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General availability of AIP client and scanner audit logs in Microsoft 365 Audit and Activity Explorer
Published 18 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC285910 – Roadmap ID: 70600
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- Previously announced in public preview (MC243214), Azure Information Protection (AIP) administrators will soon be able to access data in Microsoft 365 Compliance Centre Audit logs and Activity explorer, in addition to the AIP Analytics (Preview) portal.
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- https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/information-protection/rms-client/unifiedlabelingclient-version-release-history
- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide
- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/search-the-audit-log-in-security-and-compliance?view=o365-worldwide
- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide
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Records Management: General Availability of Multi-stage disposition review
Published 17 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC285604 – Roadmap ID: 85591
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- Multi-stage disposition review in the Microsoft 365 Records Management solution enables you to create a tiered content disposition experience with up to five stages of review. Multiple reviewers can be added per stage, and reviewers will only see items assigned to them along with contextual information about the file.
- Note: This feature will be Generally Available to all E5 commercial customers. E3 can upgrade to E5 to benefit from this feature.
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Co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection encrypted documents in Office Desktop is Generally Available
Published 14 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC285023 – Roadmap ID: 82112
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- Co-authoring on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents encrypted with Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels on Windows and Mac is now generally available. This feature is already available on Office on the web
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Microsoft 365 Records Management–Announcing public preview of adaptive policy scopes for retention and label policies
Published 25 Aug 2021 · Last updated 14 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC280914 – Roadmap ID: 70578
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- Updated September 14, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new feature (preview), Adaptive policy scopes, will allow data administrators to scope retention policies and retention label policies to a dynamic set of users, SharePoint sites, or Microsoft 365 Groups.
- This is enabled by using the properties or attributes associated with these locations. Adaptive policy scopes work with all locations, including Exchange mailboxes, Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, Teams chats, channel messages (including private channels), and Yammer user and community messages.
- Before this release, admins had to manually manage what was included in each policy by creating multiple custom scripts to add or remove locations from a policy. Adaptive policy scopes will automatically add and remove applicable locations to a policy as properties change for the associated user, site, or group.
- Additionally, adaptive policy scopes are not subject to previous per-policy limits of only including 100 sites or 1000 mailboxes per policy which often caused duplicate policies in large organizations.
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Announcing general availability of DLP data sets in Microsoft 365 Activity explorer
Published 13 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC284828 – Roadmap ID: 85594
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- You will soon be able to view data loss prevention (DLP) data sets within the Microsoft 365 compliance center Activity explorer. This feature was previously announced in public preview (MC244487) and is now coming to general availability.
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- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide
- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-loss-prevention-policies?view=o365-worldwide
- https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide
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In Preview: New named entities SITs for M365 compliance center and enhanced unified policy authoring templates
Published 10 Sept 2021 – Message ID: MC284359 – Roadmap ID: N/A
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- Named entities are sensitive information types that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function. Some examples are medical terms and conditions, person names, and physical addresses.
- With this update, we are adding 52 new SITs representing named entities. You can use these within the Microsoft 365 compliance center and with the PowerShell cmdlet “Get-DlpSensitiveInformationType”.
- We are also releasing 10 enhanced policy templates that have definitions which include named entities. These enhanced templates can be used in solutions such as data loss prevention (DLP) and auto-labeling and align to important regulations such as US HIPAA and EU GDPR. Named entity detection will roll out over a period of several weeks for the Data at Rest workloads (Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business).
- As rollout commences, admins will begin to see match results for named entities for these workloads appear in Content Explorer. As rollout nears completion, admins will be able to author DLP, auto-labeling, and other policies with named entities and use the enhanced templates. Named entities support for additional workloads, including Exchange Online, will be announced in a future Message Center post.
(Updated) Communication compliance ability to analyze linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online
Published 13 Aug 2021 · Last updated 31 Aug 2021 – Message ID: MC277647 – Roadmap ID: 82084
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- Updated August 31, 2021: The Public Preview is now available, and we have updated the rollout timeline for when this feature will be Generally available. Communication compliance policies that detect violations in Microsoft Teams will now analyze the content of documents shared in chat for potential policy match.
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