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Microsoft Office for the web: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions

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Updated February 13, 2026: The roll-out timeline has been updated!!

Microsoft 365 Office for the web will support applying sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint starting mid-March 2026. This aligns with desktop app permissions dialogs, requires no admin changes, and enhances document access control without compliance impacts.

Office for the web now supports sensitivity labels with user‑defined permissions

Microsoft 365 Office for the web (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) now includes the ability to apply sensitivity labels with user‑defined permissions, giving organizations greater flexibility and control over document access directly in the browser. This update aligns the web experience with the modern permissions dialog available in the desktop apps.

Roadmap ID: 468888

Rollout timeline

General Availability

  • Worldwide & GCC:
    Rollout begins mid‑March 2026 (previously mid‑February) and is expected to complete by early April 2026 (previously early March).
  • GCCH & DoD:
    Rollout begins mid‑March 2026 (previously mid‑February) and is expected to complete by early May 2026 (previously early April).

Who is affected

Compliance considerations

No new compliance impacts have been identified. Organisations may review the change as needed.

Updated Announcement: Microsoft Purview – New Purview Agent Deployment Role

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Microsoft Purview introduces a new Purview Agent Deployment role added to several built-in role groups, allowing analysts to deploy and manage Purview agents without admin help. Rollout starts late February 2026, improving onboarding and agent use while maintaining existing data access and compliance controls.

Microsoft introducing a new Microsoft Purview Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) role—Purview Agent Deployment—and adding it to several existing built‑in Purview role groups. This enhancement empowers analysts who work with Purview agents to deploy and manage them directly, without requiring administrator involvement. The change streamlines onboarding and supports broader adoption of Purview’s AI‑powered agent capabilities.

This update corresponds to Roadmap ID 551147.

Rollout Timeline

  • General Availability (Worldwide): Begins late February 2026
  • Expected Completion: Mid‑March 2026

Who is affected

  • Administrators managing Purview role groups
  • Analysts deploying or working with Microsoft Purview agents

What’s changing

The new Purview Agent Deployment role will be added to the following built‑in role groups:

  • Compliance Administrator
  • Data Security Management
  • Information Protection
  • Information Protection Analysts
  • Information Protection Investigators
  • Insider Risk Management
  • Insider Risk Management Analyst
  • Insider Risk Management Investigator
  • Purview Agent Management

The Purview Agent Management role group will continue to include the Purview Content Analyst role and retain access to Posture agent capabilities.

Capabilities enabled

Users assigned to these role groups will be able to deploy, use, and manage Purview agents end‑to‑end, including:

  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP) — Data Security Triage Agent
  • Insider Risk Management (IRM) — Data Security Triage Agent
  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) — Posture Agent
  • Future Purview agents as they are released

Important:

  • No default data access permissions are modified.
  • No new visibility into customer content is introduced.
  • Organizations can optionally enforce separation of responsibilities by using custom role groups.

🚀 Strengthening Security in Microsoft Purview & Microsoft 365: Important Update Coming Soon

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To further enhance the security and integrity of how Microsoft Purview interacts with Microsoft 365 services—such as Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams—Microsoft is modernizing how role management works within Purview.

Beginning mid‑February through late March 2026, Microsoft Purview will automatically map certain high‑privileged Purview admin roles to three newly created Microsoft Entra roles. This alignment strengthens identity and permission boundaries and ensures that all high‑impact actions (like search or export) are performed only by users with validated permissions in Entra.

📅 Rollout Timeline

General Availability (Worldwide)
⏳ Begins: Mid‑February 2026
⏳ Complete: Late March 2026

The best part? No customer action is required.

Role assignments will synchronize automatically from Purview to Entra within minutes, ensuring that permissions flow securely and consistently across Microsoft 365.

📝 How to Prepare

  • No action is required—synchronization is fully automated.
  • Be aware that new Purview‑specific Entra roles may appear in audit logs.
  • Avoid assigning these roles directly in Entra.
  • Review your internal documentation and update governance workflows if needed.
  • For deeper technical detail, refer to Microsoft Purview documentation.

🏢 Impact on Your Environment

✔ Who Is Affected

Organizations with admins assigned to high‑privileged Purview roles.

✔ What You’ll See

  • New Purview‑specific Entra roles appearing in audit logs
  • Auto‑generated Entra role assignments, managed solely by Purview
  • No disruption to existing workflows or permissions

✔ What You Need To Do

  • No action required
  • DO NOT manually assign these roles in Entra
  • Update documentation or internal governance policies if referencing these roles
  • Inform your security/compliance teams about the new audit log entries

Compliance & Security Notes

  • No new compliance concerns identified
  • Mapping ensures consistent identity + permission enforcement across M365
  • Supports least‑privileged access by validating roles in both Purview and Entra

🦸‍♀️💥 THE MCT CHRONICLES: The Rise of Jo SNAI 💥

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“Certified to Save the Tech Universe”

In a neon‑lit digital world where data moved faster than light and threats lurked in every shadow of the cloud…
a new chapter began.

Jo SNAI — the Cyber‑AI Guardian of Modern Work — stood in her armored suit, circuitry glowing across the chest plate. She had trained countless professionals, defended organizations against chaos, and brought order to the digital galaxy.

But today was different.

A new hologram pulsed in her hand:
✨ Microsoft Certified Trainer — Membership Activated ✨
A badge she had earned since 2012… now renewed for another mission.

“Another year,” she whispered, “another generation of heroes to train.”

Suddenly, a ripple tore through the cyber‑sky.
A swirling breach of corrupted code expanded above the horizon — the kind that could only mean one thing:
The Shadowbyte Collective was back.

Their goal?
To dismantle cloud knowledge.
To spread misinformation.
To weaken organizations from the inside-out.

And only one person had the skills — and the certification — to stop them.

Jo snapped her gauntlet into combat mode.
Screens lit up.
Security shields locked in.
AI cores hummed to full power.

Her Copilot drone hovered beside her, projecting tactical overlays.

Copilot: “Jo SNAI, the world needs your training powers more than ever. Initiating mission protocol: Teach. Empower. Protect.”

Jo SNAI: “Let’s remind them why trainers shape the future.”

She launched herself forward, slicing through corrupted data streams, restoring systems mid‑air, deploying knowledge shields around endangered teams, and unlocking AI insights faster than the Shadowbyte agents could rewrite them.

Every lesson she’d taught…
Every student she’d guided…
Every certification she’d earned…
All of it fueled her.

With each strike, the breach shrank.
With each burst of knowledge, darkness retreated.
Until finally — with one last surge of pure learning energy — the Shadowbyte portal sealed shut.

Silence filled the digital sky.

Behind her, hundreds of professionals stood empowered, laptops glowing, tools activated, ready to build, secure, and innovate.

Jo SNAI raised her MCT hologram proudly.

“I’ll keep training. I’ll keep defending.
Because the future is safer when knowledge wins.”

🎤AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026

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I’m truly honored to be speaking at the AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026 as a Microsoft MVP in M365 Copilot & Exchange, and to share insights on one of the topics I’m most passionate about:

🎤 Session: “Your Data. Your Control. Your Copilot.”
📅 14 February 2026
🕙 10:00 AM (UTC+2)

📝 Session Description:
This session brings together everything I deeply believe in:

  • Zero Trust as the backbone of AI safety
  • Purview‑driven compliance
  • Responsible Copilot adoption
  • Empowering users without compromising security
  • Making complex topics accessible and practical

I’m grateful for the warm welcome, the recognition, and the opportunity to contribute to a community I truly care about — a community that values inclusion, innovation, and meaningful collaboration.

Looking forward to connecting with everyone on February 14th and sharing practical guidance on how organizations can move forward confidently in this new AI era. 🚀🔐🤖

🔊 Announcing the AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026

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We’re delighted to bring back the AI Cloud & Modern Workplace Conference 2026 for the third consecutive year-an effort that, despite tight timelines and real organizational challenges, Konstantinos Boutsioulis MVP managed to deliver together with George – Chrysovalantis Grammatikos .

📌 When & Where
11–14 February 2026 (UTC+2) · Online · Free to attend with no registration required. For agenda updates and resources, visit the official site: AI CLOUD & MODERN WORKPLACE CONFERENCE 2026.
Who’s on stage

♨️A curated lineup featuring speakers from Microsoft, Microsoft MVPs, and seasoned leaders from the broader IT market—bringing practical insights from product engineering, consulting, and frontline delivery.

🔖 What you’ll gain
Actionable guidance across AI, Cloud, and Modern Work scenarios-grounded in real implementations and best practices.
Hands‑on, practitioner‑level sessions spanning topics.
Community value – organized by the Digital Innovation Minds community, focused on vendor‑neutral learning aligned to Microsoft technologies.
Format & experience
Expect focused talks, panel discussions, and practical deep dives designed for IT leaders, architects, developers, and security & data professionals who need outcomes they can apply the next day.

Important notes for attendees
🔖 The conference is 100% online—join from anywhere.
🏷️ It is entirely free—no registration or sign‑up forms are required.
🌍 More information, daily updates, and speaker materials will be available on the official site:
AI CLOUD & MODERN WORKPLACE CONFERENCE 2026.
We can’t wait to share four days of practical learning and community‑driven knowledge. See you online!

Marko Filipovic Paris Dimitrakopoulos Tzvia Gitlin Troyna Pieter de Bruin Michael Haggar Chloé Moreau Angeliki Patsiavou Korina Katsani Konstantinos Passadis Massimo Crippa Joanna Vathis Antonios Chatzipavlis Chris Spanougakis MSc, MCT, MVP George Kosmidis Nikos Delis George Markou

Excited to Share a New Milestone!🎉

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I’m excited to announce that I’ve earned the Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional certification! 🤖💼
This achievement strengthens my ability to bridge AI strategy, business impact, and responsible innovation—skills that are becoming essential in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported my learning journey. I’m looking forward to applying these insights to real-world scenarios and contributing to meaningful, human‑centered AI transformations.

#Microsoft #AI #AIBusinessProfessional #Certification #LearningJourney #GrowthMindset #MicrosoftLearn

🔐 New AI Transparency Policy in Microsoft 365

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Microsoft 365 will offer a policy to add visual or audio watermarks to AI-generated or altered video and audio content, available via Cloud Policy by February 2026. This enhances transparency but does not apply to images, which users can watermark through privacy settings separately.

To help provide additional transparency about what content has been generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365, Microsoft is providing you with a policy setting that visually designates when content, such as video or audio content, is generated or altered by using AI. This policy setting controls your organization’s option to add a visual or audio watermark to video and audio content that your users generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365.

To turn on watermarks for video and audio content that your users generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365, you need to use the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy. This policy is available only in Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. 

Note: Watermarks are not turned on unless you set the policy to Enabled. Your organization is always responsible for following the Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct, including not generating or sharing deceptive AI content. 

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 547831.

When this will happen

General Availability (Worldwide): We anticipate that this policy will be available in Cloud Policy by the second half of February 2026.

How this will affect your organization

Who is affected

Users that generate or alter video and audio content by using AI in Microsoft 365

What will happen

If you set the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy to Enabled in Cloud Policy, a visual or audio watermark is added to video and audio content that is generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365. Here are two examples:

  • A visual watermark is added to a video generated with Clipchamp.
  • An audio watermark is added to an audio overview generated by Copilot from a Word document.

Notes:

  • This policy doesn’t affect images generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365.
  • Instead, your users will be able to turn on watermarks for images by going to Settings & Privacy > Privacy at https://myaccount.microsoft.com. We anticipate this capability will be available in the second half of February 2026. 

What you need to do to prepare

Review the information in the following article: Add watermarks to content generated or altered by using AI in Microsoft 365. If you decide to set the “Include a watermark when content from Microsoft 365 is generated or altered by AI” policy to Enabled, inform your users that a visual or audio watermark will be added to video and audio content that they generate or alter by using AI in Microsoft 365. 

🚨 Now Generally Available: Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations 🚨

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Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations is officially GA, and to mark the moment, Microsoft is hosting an Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) – Part 2 with the team behind the solution.

This session will dive into:

  • 🔍 New capabilities in Data Security Investigations
  • 🧠 How investigations are evolving to meet modern insider risk and data misuse challenges
  • 💼 A walkthrough of the refined business model
  • 💬 Live Q&A with the product experts who built it

📅 Date: February 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM PST

If you’re working with Microsoft Purview, Insider Risk, Data Loss Prevention, or security investigations, this is one you don’t want to miss.

👉 Save your spot and bring your questions

🤖 Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations is now generally available

🔐 Microsoft Purview | Enhanced Diagnostics for DLP & Information Protection

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Microsoft Purview is introducing new diagnostics for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection, providing admins deeper insights into triggered policies for files and emails. Rolling out from January to May 2026, these tools require no action, cause no workflow impact, and are enabled by default.

To help administrators troubleshoot Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Information Protection scenarios more effectively, Microsoft Purview is introducing a new set of enhanced diagnostics. These improvements provide deeper visibility into why specific DLP rules or sensitivity labeling policies are triggered on files and emails, making investigation and policy tuning more efficient.

This update corresponds to Roadmap ID 547833.

📅 Rollout Timeline

Public Preview

  • Start: Mid‑January 2026
  • Completion: Mid‑February 2026

General Availability (Worldwide)

  • Start: Early April 2026
  • Completion: Early May 2026

Impact on Your Organization

Who is Affected

  • Microsoft 365 admins managing:
    • DLP policies
    • Information Protection labels
    • Purview compliance and security operations

What’s Changing

Administrators will gain expanded visibility into:

  • 🔎 Sensitive Information Types detected within files and emails
  • 🏷️ Labels applied to content
  • 🚨 DLP policies triggered based on content inspection

New diagnostics experiences include:

  • DLP SharePoint Diagnostics
    Insights into policy matches within SharePoint Online content.
  • DLP Exchange Online (EXO) Diagnostics
    Validation of DLP triggers across email workflows.
  • Auto-Labeling Diagnostics for SharePoint & OneDrive
    Visibility into label assignment, policy behavior, and alignment for stored files.

No Impact to User or Admin Workflows

  • No changes to policy enforcement
  • No changes to existing configurations
  • Diagnostics are enabled by default
  • No workflow disruptions

For additional learning and internal readiness, you may review: