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...

Spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting

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I think I missed this message in the Admin Center, but it has already been rolled out to our company's production tenant. This is a feature allowing you to set the spotlight on a video feed, and making sure this is "pinned" for all attendees. 

In Skype for Business, I believe this was called pinning a video. but pinning in Teams is a single user's ability's to lock on one of the participants. The spotlight feature will lock the feed for everyone. 

Right click on any feed and select "spotlight" in order to focus on that user. You can also easily identify if you have been spotlighted by the header message.