Safeguarding Sensitive Data in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Purview DLP (GA Release)

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The challenge with sensitive data and access to Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot empowers users with AI-driven assistance across Microsoft 365 apps, but it also raises concerns about accidental oversharing of sensitive information. In response, Microsoft has extended its Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing organizations to enforce information protection policies within AI workflows. The DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot has been in preview for some time, but Microsoft has now announced it is released for GA (General Availability). Among some of the interesting features are new features like alerting and policy simulation. Key details:  Rollout Timeline: As of June 2025, the rollout has begun. It should be completed worldwide by late July 2025. Scope: Initially, DLP for Copilot was available for Copilot Chat scenarios. By the time of GA this is expanding to Copilot in core Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well. Ensuring that DLP prote...

The new Yammer in Teams has landed

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The new Yammer app has landed in Teams for most tenants. Using this app Teams allows users to easily access Yammer and it's community discussions. The new app in Teams is based upon the new Yammer look, where you get a lot of the new features announced at Ignite 2019. The app can be added by admins through policies, or users may add them directly themselves.

If you have not deployed Yammer to your organization, you might want to tell users not to use this app, or hide it from the store.

To access the new app, just click the app icon at the bottom of the left rail, search for "Yammer" and the application called "Communities"

Users may discover that the app does not allow you to switch networks (yet), and they will have to switch to a browser version to do so.