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...

Microsoft Teams Calendar getting a facelift - Enhanced Scheduling Form

According to a message in the admin center, the scheduling feature in the native Teams Calendar app will be getting a facelift making it a lot more similar to the Outlook experience. The roadmap (post) highlights a time zone picker, availability status and locations.

This is for me a most welcome feature, as I often find myself going back to Outlook when planning a meeting where I need to find available times for everyone (unless I'm using "Find-Time"). Having seen a sneak peak earlier, I can say the invite window now does look a lot more like the interface users are used to from applications like Outlook or OWA.

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