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March 2026 in Microsoft 365: the new E7 suite and Agent 365 go GA May 1, Entra Backup and Recovery enters preview, external MFA hits GA, and SPO one-time passcodes get a retirement date.
Exact Data Match checks content against a hashed copy of your real sensitive data instead of regex patterns, so DLP blocks actual employee records and ignores lookalike strings. Full setup guide.
Locked-down HR sites stop protecting data the moment someone downloads, copies, or emails a file. Custom sensitive info types plus DLP teach Microsoft 365 to protect HR data wherever it moves.
Intune Suite capabilities fold into E3 and E5 ahead of July 2026 pricing, Outlook gets DLP Wait on Send, and cross-tenant migration goes first-party. December 2025's M365 changes, sorted by impact.
GPT-5 rolls into Copilot Chat, Intune adds two-admin approval for destructive actions, Autopilot patches during setup, and Windows 10 ESU hits the CSP price list.
Teams Premium flags sensitive content during screen sharing, Purview meters GenAI data security as pay-as-you-go, and Copilot lands across PowerPoint, Forms, and calls.
July 2024 ships the new Microsoft Entra Suite, auto-enables Microsoft-managed MFA Conditional Access policies, archives unlicensed OneDrive accounts after 90 days, and adds dynamic watermarking and scheduled Copilot prompts.
Personal-device access does not have to be negotiated client by client. Define three BYOD support tiers once, then deploy the matching Conditional Access, MAM, and DLP stack everywhere.
A license-by-license matrix of the native security and compliance features that protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data, plus the add-ons that get Business plans most of the way to E5.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 surfaces whatever a user can already touch, including the access nobody remembers granting. Here is the nine-step governance audit to run before you sell or deploy it.
Microsoft Teams holds chats, meetings, and files for the whole company. These eight CIS-mapped settings control who gets in, what apps run, and where data can leak.
Intelligent Meeting Recap reaches Teams Premium, Teams DLP becomes E5-only on May 30, Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management and Apple SSO plug-in hit GA, and Defender changes DMARC handling.
