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...

Contextual Search coming to Teams

I am probably not the one working in an organization where searching for items in Teams sometimes feels like a full time job. There are a lot of folders, an Microsoft is probably working on improving the search experience.

One of the improvements have just been announced ready for shipping: Contextual search, also known as "CTRL+F" for users of Windows. Once the feature becomes available, users will be able to search only in a chat or a specific channel using ctrl+f

This feature should be rolling out soon, and be completed by the end of July. Once again, the roadmap item 64017 doesn't reveal much. But make sure to let your users know when the feature is activated in your tenant. I am sure they will find it useful.