Microsoft 365 Adaptive Policy Scopes for Retention

There is a new feature called Adaptive Policy Scopes is coming available soon that allows administrators the ability to apply retention policies and labels by user, site and groups.  This will allow you to create more granular rules that appropriate to for specific scenarios.  For instance, you may have exception policy where a retention policy may not apply or could be different based on set of criteria.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/announcing-adaptive-policy-scopes-for-microsoft-365-records/ba-p/2857532 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/using-adaptive-policy-scopes-to-apply-m365-retention-to-shared/ba-p/3053641

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-settings?view=o365-worldwide#configuration-information-for-adaptive-scopes 

Microsoft Teams End to End Encryption

Microsoft Teams has not made End-to-End encryption Generally Available.  Here are some good articles and FAQs if you seek to utilize it.

GA Announcement - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/end-to-end-encryption-for-one-to-one-microsoft-teams-calls-now/ba-p/3037697

Preview Announcement - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/use-end-to-end-encryption-for-one-to-one-microsoft-teams-calls/ba-p/2867066

Teams Security - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-security-guide#encryption-for-teams 

Microsoft Teams Information Protection

I have been getting lots of questions over past few months about protecting an organization’s data within Microsoft Teams.  These two posts were just made by Microsoft Teams and are a good introduction with additional references….

Protect your data across Microsoft Teams: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-community-blog/protect-your-data-across-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2945757 

Use sensitivity labels in your Microsoft Teams: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-community-blog/use-sensitivity-labels-in-your-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2945736

Microsoft Teams and Apple CarPlay

 I noticed the past few Teams conference calls I have attended while driving, I was seeing some new Teams integration with Apple CarPlay. 

Pretty cool.  I recommend folks give it a try.

"In addition to calling, your Microsoft Teams meetings are now available on Apple CarPlay. You can find a Teams icon on your Apple CarPlay screen. Simply use voice command through Siri to join your next meeting hands-free. You can also look up call history, make a call or send messages to one or more Teams contacts. Please note that this feature only supports audio mode to avoid distractions while driving."

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-september-2021/ba-p/2793627 

Co-Authoring Support for AIP Files

I was extremely happy to see we are now publicly releasing co-authoring for documents that have AIP policies applied to them.  This had been a highly desirable feature I have wanted for years.  Collaborating on sensitive internal documents was very cumbersome until this feature came along.  Please review link for more information.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/co-authoring-on-microsoft-information-protection-encrypted/ba-p/2693718

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Public Preview

I am very excited to see the new Public Preview of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse.  Organizations and managed service providers have numerous tenants they manage with the goal of driving consistent cyber security posture across those tenants.  Azure Lighthouse has been in market for awhile now, and organizations can use Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to achieve similar outcomes.  Right now this solution is only available for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) Market.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/small-and-medium-business-blog/microsoft-365-lighthouse-is-now-in-public-preview/ba-p/2540515

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/14/from-collaborative-apps-in-microsoft-teams-to-cloud-pc-heres-whats-new-in-microsoft-365-at-inspire/?ocid=usoc_LINKEDIN_M365_spl100002353594927

Microsoft 365 Privacy Management (Preview)

There is a new solution called Microsoft 365 Privacy Management that has been released in preview which enables tenant administrators to safeguard personal data. You have the ability to identify privacy risk and mitigate it through automated policies. Policies can monitor data transfers, data overexposure and data minimization (identified unused data). Plus M365 Privacy Management also provides you capabilities to support subject rights requests which helps you to search for and produce reports about data stored in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OnDrive and Teams.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/privacy-management?view=o365-worldwide