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Making sure that Office 365 Retention Policies process Teams
Using Get-MailboxFolderStatistics To Prove Compliance Records Go Away Some folks raised the point in discussions in the Microsoft Technical Community that there’s no way to know whether a Teams...
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Content Searches Find Teams Compliance Items When someone leaves your company, you might need to preserve their Office 365 data. The steps needed to preserve user information stored in Email, OneDrive,...
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Using Special Characters in Office 365 Labels
Brightening Up Office 365 Labels Office 365 labels are a security and compliance feature. And like most things associated with security and compliance, the names given to labels are usually pretty...
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Restricting the Flow of Audit Data for User Office 365 Activities to Microsoft
Limiting Data Following on the Dutch report slamming Microsoft for potential GDPR violations in how it deals with personal data extracted from Office and Office 365, my thoughts turned to how you can...
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Reporting Protected Files
Reporting Files with Labels Let’s assume that your users have applied Azure Information Protection or Office 365 sensitivity labels to a bunch of documents. How can you create a report of files to know...
View ArticleOffice 365 Data Governance at the European SharePoint Conference 2018
ESPC18 in Denmark Next Wednesday, I shall be speaking at the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC18) in Copenhagen, Denmark. My chosen topic is “Office 365 Data Governance,” which is somewhat...
View ArticleHow to Remove Thousands of Items from an Exchange Online Mailbox
The Need for a Nice Clean Mailbox Another question, this time from the Facebook Office 365 group: “How can i delete a whole bunch of emails in a shared mailbox using the online mail browser?...
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Office 365 Sensitivity Labels Bring Rights Management to the Masses
Sensitivity Labels are a Game Changer Today’s Petri.com post discusses the use of Office 365 sensitivity labels through an updated set of Office desktop applications coming soon. A previous post...
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New Information Protection Service Plans for Office 365
Preparing for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels Microsoft’s 15 February announcement (MC173614) that they are updating the Office 365 E3, E5, and Advanced Protection and Compliance SKUs to include new...
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Office 365 Sensitivity Labels: Auto-Label and Updated Client
More Progress towards Enabling Sensitivity Labels Along with announcing its intention to include licenses for Information Protection in Office 365 E3 and E5 plans, Microsoft made further progress to...
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The Great SharePoint Online Recycle Bin Fallacy
Reason for Backup #101: Stop Accidental File Deletion All companies seek reasons for customers to buy their products. Vendors who sell backup for Office 365 advance reasons to convince customers that...
View ArticleMaking Sure Everyone’s Covered by an Office 365 Supervision Policy
Checking Communications for All Users in an Office 365 Tenant Office 365 supervision policies allow tenants to monitor the communications of users in email and Teams. The usual situation is that a...
View ArticleExcluding Inactive Mailboxes from Org-Wide Retention Holds
Sometimes You Want to Get Rid of Inactive Mailboxes Sometimes Microsoft doesn’t communicate changes made to PowerShell cmdlets that introduce interesting new functionality to Office 365. There’s so...
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Office 365 Data Governance in Oslo
Successful Experts Live (Norway) Event The blog has been relatively quiet this week because I’ve been traveling to Germany and Norway to speak at the European Collaboration Summit (Wiesbaden) and...
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OWA Supports Automatic Labeling for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels
Office Depends on Unified Labeling Client Office 365 Message Center Notification MC193997 (24 October) brings the news that OWA will soon be able to automatically apply Office 365 sensitivity labels...
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Microsoft Removing Legacy Office 365 eDiscovery Tools
Legacy eDiscovery Tools Gone by Mid-2020 Over the holiday period, Microsoft issued a note on December 30 about their retirement of Legacy eDiscovery tools. The original version of the note dealt with...
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Microsoft Tries to Deprecate Classic Azure Information Protection Client
Classic AIP Client and Label Management in Azure Portal to Cease On January 6, Microsoft announced the deprecation of the classic Azure Information Protection (AIP) client and management of labels...
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Microsoft 365 Compliance and Security Centers Rolling Out to Office 365 Tenants
Old Security and Compliance Center Split in Two Figure 1: The Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Office 365 Notification MC202599 posted on January 30 tells tenants that the Microsoft 365 compliance...
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Applying Holds to Teams Private Channel Messages
An Unclear Announcement About Legal Holds for Teams The wording of Microsoft’s February 2 announcement (MC202846) that legal hold is now supported for Teams private channels might have confused some....
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Capturing “High-Value” Office 365 Audit Events Requires E5 Licenses
The Saga of the Elusive MailItemsAccessed Event In January 2019, Microsoft announced that they were adding an event called MailItemsAccessed to the set of audited operations captured in the Office 365...
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Teams Messages from Hybrid Users Scanned by Communication Compliance Policies
Depends on Compliance Records Captured by Microsoft 365 Substrate In a change so good that it deserved two identical Office 365 notifications (MC218305 and MC218304). Microsoft revealed on July 11...
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Blocking Email Forwarding from Power Automate
Email Exfiltration Controls for Office 365 connectors In May, I wrote two articles about how Office 365 tenants can restrict users autoforwarding email from their Exchange Online mailboxes. The first...
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When a Teams Retention Policy Goes Bad and Data Disappears
Error in Retention Processing Removes Personal Chats Reading Monday’s report in the Register about the problem KPMG suffered when erasing Teams personal chat data for 145,000 users, you might ask the...
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Microsoft Makes Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Generally Available
Windows 10 and Edge Deliver Signals for DLP Evaluation Announced as Generally Available on November 10, Endpoint DLP is a Microsoft 365 offering which uses signals generated by actions performed on...
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Microsoft Releases New Sensitive Information Types
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) isn’t the most exciting topic, but it’s an important way to protect sensitive information stored in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams....
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