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...

Teams users can pin their favorite apps

A new feature is rolling out according to the roadmap: Users can pin apps to the Teams left rail.
This feature will be on by default, and will allow users to pin apps to the left rail. It can be controlled through the same policies admins used to set up apps for their users.
The admin added apps will still be there, but the users may now add, and slightly rearrange the the setup. And I think this is a good combination, allowing users to personalize their setup tailored to their needs.
According to the message in the admin portal, this feature should already be rolling out and be completed by the end of February (this week).