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...

Team Templates in Teams:

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If you haven't noticed, there are configurable Teams templates available for your tenants. With this feature, there are 10+ (13) prepared templates for every organization. But the admin center allows for customizations of existing templates and creation of your own templates.

In the Teams Admin center, expand the "Teams" menu to access the "Team templates". Edit the existing templates, or create a new template from scratch or based upon an existing template or an existing Team.

The template admin will let you pre-create channels and their shown or hidden status. As well as adding apps and tabs to the team and associate them with the desired channels.

This feature is going to simplify standardization and creation of functional teams throughout the organization.

According to the roadmap, the feature is being rolled out this month.  And you can read all about how to work with these templates in the documentation library.