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...

Skype for Business admin center retirement [MC225373]

An important message was posted last week in the Admin center. Microsoft will retire the classic Skype for Business admin center. Starting December 1st, organizations will no longer be able to access the old admin center. Instead, organizations need to manage their users through the Teams Admin center.

There is no change in the Skype for Business PowerShell module or Call quality dashboard, but as I mentioned here on the blog last recently, all of the SFBO commands have now been implemented in the Teams PowerShell module as well.