How Microsoft Purview DLP currently can help you protect confidential data in Copilot.

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Organizations today face a difficult balancing act. Business leaders are eager to adopt tools like Microsoft Copilot to unlock productivity and innovation. Meanwhile, IT and security teams are concerned about safeguarding sensitive information, especially as AI-driven features process vast amounts of organizational data. This tension is real: enabling advanced capabilities without compromising compliance or data protection is a challenge every modern enterprise must solve. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a key solution to this problem. It provides mechanisms to prevent confidential data from being exposed or misused, even in scenarios involving AI. I want to highlight two features designed to help organizations in controlling what is being processed by Copilot. Blocking Documents Based on Sensitivity Labels One of the foundational features of Purview DLP is its ability to enforce policies based on Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels. If your organization...

Lync 2013 Backup v 3_3 released

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It's a new year, and time for a new version of my back-up script. It has been updated at the Technet Gallery: Download Page

New in this release:
- Is an option to keep the "deviceupdatestore" folder in the IIS back-up portion. And the folder has been removed from the default backup. Thank you to "Korbyn" for requesting this feature. I haven't run this script on any systems using a lot of devices, nor updates, and was not fully aware of the magnitude of space this folder can consume.
I think it would be smarter to restore your system, and then just re-import/publish the newest updates if needed, than to waste the space.

Bugfixes: 
- I introduced an error in the previous version, where you could not use a space in the "backupto" path. The xcopy syntax did not like it at all. But using the %temp% variable for the exclude files seemed to do the trick. Please observe and report back to me.
- I've done some clean-up in the amount of information being shown in the running windows. There is still some left, as I use "Verbose" on a lot of commands to capture it in the transcript. let me know if the transcript is of use for you, or if you want me to remove it (majority vote).
- I've added some "write-host" sections, to indicate the progress.
- After running the script in a window, it used to return to c:\. I have now changed this to return to the start-path of the shell.

I hope this is of use for you guys. And please, if you have comments or suggestions, let me know. I will always look into it and see if it is something worth implementing in my script. I will keep a list of feature requests or known bugs on the Technet Gallery page.