Microsoft Purview DLP Extends to Microsoft 365 Copilot

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As organizations increasingly adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot to enhance productivity and collaboration, ensuring the security of corporate data becomes more and more important. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) offers a robust solution to safeguard sensitive information. Purview's new and upcoming DLP capabilities can soon help secure your organization's use of Copilot even better. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is expanding its capabilities to support Microsoft 365 Copilot. This enhancement will allow DLP policies to identify sensitive documents using sensitivity labels and exclude them from processing in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat. The feature will be available for customers who already have E5 (or equivalent) licenses together with copilot licenses. Information protection admins can then create policies that will include Microsoft Copilot in addition to all of the existing services. The preview started in late November, and it should be availab...

EWS in Exchange online is about to be retired

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In 2018, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of feature updates to Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, urging developers to transition to Microsoft Graph. Now, Microsoft has announced that starting October 1, 2026, EWS requests from non-Microsoft applications to Exchange Online will be blocked.

This is a significant change that emphasizes the need for IT departments to take action. It's crucial to start mapping existing tools, scripts, or integrations that rely on EWS and plan for their transition.

There's no direct way to opt out of this change. The change only applies to Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online. EWS in Exchange Server will not be affected.