Data Lifecycle Management: Separate Copilot retention policies from Teams chats

In a previous post I mentioned how Microsoft is adding the capability to use Purview Data Loss Prevention on Copilot to block certain information from surfacing for the user. Now, Microsoft is adding Copilot to it's retention policy controls, and starting mid-February, public preview tenants can start exploringthis new feature. Admins will be able to create separate retention policies for Microsoft Teams chats and Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, and allows for a more tailored data management. The feature will of course require that the targeted users have Microsoft 365 Copilot license.  According to the message center, the public preview will be during February, and we can hope for a general release sometime in March. The feature will be available by default, but policies will have to be set up.

Collaborative notes now also on mobile, a combined picker for gifs emojis and stickers and a multi account meeting plugin for Outlook.

Collaborative notes in Teams meetings is a feature that allows meeting attendees to work together to create agendas, take notes, and generate action items. However, until now, this feature has not been supported on mobile clients. This is about to change, as the roadmap item 128652 is set to roll out this month.

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that combines emojis, GIFs, and stickers into one picker. With this update, emojis, GIFs, and stickers will be combined in one picker under the smiley face icon. Clicking the smiley face will open the new feature. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023, and should be rolling out this month.

The Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook now supports multi-tenant and multi-account scenarios. This means that if you’re signed into multiple tenants in Teams, the Teams Meeting button in Outlook will create a meeting invite link for the tenant you’re currently signed into. This obviously requires the user to be using the new version of Teams.