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Wednesday 7 August 2024

Microsoft Fabric Known Issues

There is a Power BI report that contains the list of known feature issues for the various areas of Microsoft Fabric. The report can be found here.



Tuesday 6 August 2024

The AI Hub in Microsoft Purview

The Microsoft Purview AI hub is a preview feature that helps you govern and gain insight to generative AI apps and helps protect through mitigating and managing risks. With the explosion of generative AI this has become a crucial addition in the governance world.

The AI Hub helps with

  • strengthening information protection for Copilot
  • supporting compliance management for Copilot
  • fortifying data security for AI
  • insights and analytics that enable that view on AI activity
  • policies to help protect and prevent data loss
  • compliance for optimal data handling

The use of Purview AI hub works well with other capabilities to improve data security.

  • Sensitivity labels and content encrypted by Microsoft Purview Information Protection
  • Data classification
  • Customer Key
  • Communication compliance
  • Auditing
  • Content search
  • eDiscovery
  • Retention and deletion
  • Customer Lockbox
The insights, policies and control secures data from Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and AI apps from third-party large language modules (LLMs).







Thursday 1 August 2024

The changing new Microsoft Purview Portal

Microsoft unveiled the new Purview portal, a game-changer for organizations navigating the complex landscape of data security and risk management. This change is ongoing within Microsoft Purview with the relocation of portal features and retirement of some features. The new Microsoft Portal features changes


The portal's design facilitates easy navigation with the solution cards for quick access to the solutions within  Risk & Compliance, Data Governance, and Data Security sections.

The key features areas are now

Data Security: covers discovery and protecting sensitive information across your organization with a robust set of data security solutions, including Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection and adaptive protection .

Data Governance: It offers unified data governance solutions to manage services across your on-premises, multi cloud, and SaaS environments. This includes creating an up-to-date map of your data estate with classification, data catalog, data quality (preview), lineage, data management, and data estate insights.

Risk and Compliance: The platform includes solutions to help minimize compliance risks and meet regulatory requirements, ensuring your organization stays ahead of the curve in data protection standards with eDiscovery and audit, communication compliance, data lifecycle management, and records management.