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...

A new feature in Teams: Share contact information in chat. And one feature change: Web pages will open in browser

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Microsoft Teams makes it easier to share contact information for easier collaboration. Within a chat it will now be possible to use the @ mention to bring up a contact card you can send and share with others within your organization. Helping your colleagues connect with one another just got easier.

This is associated with the Roadmap ID: 375627

Another change in Teams, is how the "website tab" inside a channel behaves. In the coming weeks and months, webpages will no longer be displayed in the tab, but rather open a seperate web browser tab (your default). This is to better align with emerging best practices in web security and privacy while also improving the reliability of websites.