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...

Meeting policies in Teams have been updated in the Teams Admin Center

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Microsoft released a lot of cool features last week, an I am sure I will comment them as the get closer to General Availability. But in this post, I will focus on some of the features that has surfaced GA just recently, and discuss if there are things the organization could or should look into.

Meeting Policy Settings
Already back in May, the option to create meetings where "only me" could bypass the lobby became available. But the organization wide setting is still set to "allow all to bypass". This is still true, but now there is a meeting policy which organizations can deploy to control this for all. 
To control this, look for the "Automatically admit people" in the teams admin portal. Select what best matches your security policy, but make sure to communicate this to the users as they probably are used to the allow all.
You can also control who gets to be a presenter through the same policy now. This is nice if you want to avoid guests to take control unless explicitly granted. My suggestion is to allow user override in most cases.