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...

Tighter Outlook and Teams integration

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Users will soon be able to set their Out of Office settings and notifications from within Teams, and this will then sync with Exchange online.

Microsoft Teams have for a long time been able to read the OOF status from Exchange, but with the new update announced it will also be able to write status.

According to the Admin center, this feature will roll out during May

There will be two ways to access this feature from Teams, one through the "Set status message" panel accessible from the user profile image, the other from the "settings" page shown in the image above.