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

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...

From the world of Teams in February

We are mid-February and only two weeks away from my previous update, and already my list of things to mention is growing to big to wait for a monthly update. Here is a couple of important highlights from the past two weeks:

Administration and training:
The Teams Team have updated the documentation on Teams (here)
Take a look at the "Skill Enablement" series, The Foundation track has been updated (here)

Feature releases:
Anynode now certified for Direct Routing (here)
Administration of Auto Attendant and Call Queue is coming to the admin center (roadmap)
Discover easier sign-in process, released in the January updates to desktop client (here)
Teams will become a part of the Office ProPluss installation (roadmap)

Blogs of interest:
Here is a post on all the latest calling and meeting features (here)
If you are looking for the highlights from the past month or os, Take a look at Microsoft's own "February Round UP! (here)
A Teams Team size has been increased from 2500 to 5000 (uservoice)
Have you heard about "Supervision"? Read this post, and learn how you can meet regulatory requirements and more (techcommunity)
Teams Devices based on Android 5.x and higher can enroll in Intune (here)

Upcoming events:
Join the Microsoft Teams Team for a Government AMA (AMA) February 19th 9-10 AM ET

Skype for Business:
2015 Client February update (here)
2016 Client February update (here)

Other:
Not strictly related to Teams or SFB. But I have a lot of customers using voicemail, and it can be important to know what's happening with "Unified Messaging Online" (here)