Microsoft 365 & Windows 365 Outage - 2 Weeks
Our company's Microsoft 365 (including email) and Windows 365 licenses have been completely disabled for two weeks. This is severely impacting our business: clients can't email us, we can't send emails, and access to critical data on our virtual desktops is lost. We've contacted Microsoft multiple times with no resolution. This prolonged outage is causing significant operational paralysis and forcing data recreation. We urgently need assistance in understanding the cause and a swift resolution to restore our services. We have tried reactivating, and have attempted getting through a Microsoft partner, but nothing has helped. Any advice on escalating this critical issue would be greatly appreciated.Use Auto-Label Policies to Protect Old Files from Copilot
Often Microsoft 365 tenants have large numbers of old but confidential documents that they need to protect and stop Microsoft 365 Copilot finding. Auto-label policies and trainable classifiers can apply sensitivity labels to protect Office files from Microsoft 365 Copilot using the DLP policy for Copilot. It’s a great example of combiining Microsoft 365 features to achieve a goal. https://office365itpros.com/2025/04/09/trainable-classifier-old-files/Seattle Conference
Join TechCon 365 coming to Seattle, June 23-27, 2025. Hear from Microsoft Product teams and Microsoft MVP's and community contributors in keynotes, sessions and ask the experts. Over 130 sessions on M365, Security and Compliance, Copilot, Power Platform, Data, Power BI and more. Register today at TechCon 365, PWRCON & DATACON - Microsoft 365 Conference, Microsoft Data Conference & Power Platform Conference - SeattleUse Data Loss Prevention to Stop Copilot Chat Processing Documents in Its Responses
The DLP policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot blocks access to sensitive files by checking for the presence of a sensitivity label. If a predesignated label is found on a file, Copilot Chat is blocked from using the file content in its responses. The nicest thing is that the DLP policy prevents users knowing about sensitive information by searching its metadata. https://office365itpros.com/2025/03/20/dlp-policy-for-microsoft-365-copilot/
Compliance licenses at tenant level
Hi, We are a small organization of about 200 employees, and we have following requirements. DLP policies configuration at Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint BYOD security Users should not be able to send files outside the org And so on as we evaluate We already have M365 Business Premium. However, after researching we figured out that M365 Business premium will alone not solve our requirements. May be compliance license will. We want to apply security policies at tenant level in our organization but definitely do not want every user to get licenses as this will be expensive for us and there is no requirement at all for our users. The question is, Is there a way to solve the above scenario?
Hidden Group and Hidden Group Membership
Hi everyone! I have come across a requirement where the client would like to use an excel spreadsheet, a service account and application registration to manage group membership for a confidential group. They would like to create a group from which the members cannot leave, see other team members and cannot see the group itself. Now, I have the concept of the flow with me but for the life of me, I cannot get around to finding/configuring a group that meets the requirement. Have you guys come across this sort of scenario? Group Configuration: Users should not be able to view the group Users should not be able to view members of the group Users should not be able to leave the group Thanks in advance.Forms update
I use MS Forms for collecting data to excel file and frequently make corrections to typos and wrong entries. If I now update my existing Forms as instructed, will the corrections/alterations get overwritten by faulty data from the Forms probably still saved in the cloud. I would prefer to continue using these Forms, but I cannot risk loosing the corrections that I have made during longer period. I have made Backups but rebuilding my Forms and data model will cause me a lot of extra work. Please advice asap. Mikulof
Mail enabled AD accounts
I have a question about email delivery to Mail enabled AD accounts. I am aware that these types of accounts are useful when you need to provide an external person like a contractor a login but don't want to provide them with a mailbox. You can add their external email address to the email field in Entra but they login with your companies UPN. Apparently there is also a license saving here as you dont need to assign them an E5 My questions are: If I put their UPN as the recipient of an email and send it will EXO fail to deliver it since they don't have an EXO mailbox? Or will it deliver to the external mail address set in the mail address field in their user account? How does advanced features like purview etc work if they don't have an E5? What's the process to create one of these mail enabled users?
How do I apply retention label to a folder in a SharePoint library?
Hello All, Can you please advice how do I apply a "Retention label" (Created in M365 compliance centre) to folders in a Document Library? I created this retention label below I published this label and it now appears in document library, but at a individual document level as shown below I am not sure how to make the same appear at a folder level. Note : In the actual customer scenario, they would like different retention labels to be applied to different "folders" (ie, users should be able to apply retention labels to folders, so that the documents inside those folders follow the label applied at folder level). For achieving this, I heard that we only need to create a retention label (not retention policy) as we are looking at a "Folder" level here (not site level or up). However I am not sure how to do it. Please advice.
