Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels: Sensitivity label grouping modernization coming this fall (?)

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There is a change coming to Microsoft Purview Information Protection that simplifies sensitivity label architecture. The goal is to make label management easier, more scalable, and less rigid for organizations. The new model will only include standalone labels and sublabels. Parent labels will be replaced by label groups, which act as organizational containers. These groups cannot be applied to content and have no actions or scope, but they retain color and priority for visual organization. Hopefully, this change will make it much easier to move labels around and make other changes in production: for example, converting a standalone label into a sublabel or moving sublabels between groups without breaking dependencies.  From my experience, this update solves one of the biggest challenges in large environments: rigid label hierarchies. The new dynamic model gives admins the agility they need to adapt quickly as compliance and business needs evolve. For admins, migration will be quic...

Microsoft Teams to increase member cap and Teams pop-out chat and meetings

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Two more announcements have recently been published to the Admin Message Center in the past weeks.

The number of members to a Team will now be increased to 10 000 members. According to the message center, this feature will be rolled out by the end of May.

The other feature is something that was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2019. The ability to pop-out a chat or a meeting and move it around. Making it possible to work in Teams at the same time you are in a meeting, is a great addition to the tool and will increase the collaboration capabilities as the application is no longer "locked" to the meeting you are attending. This feature should be available to most by the end of May as well.

None of these features requires and action by the Admin.