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Microsoft Teams – Enable data loss prevention,ATP safe attachments,retention of files and conversations

Security is considered one of the success factor for any implementations.With Office 365 security and compliance there are lot of options to enforce the security across Office 365 suite of products.We can enforce DLP on Microsoft Teams based on our requirement. ATP can be turned on for all file upload activities in Microsoft Teams. The best part is that now we do have option to enable retention as lesser as 1 day in Microsoft teams channel messages and chats.

Microsoft Data Loss Prevention have been protecting sensitive information across all Office365 platforms. The easiest part is that we already have more custom built-in templates which will be easier for us to create,test,evaluate the results and finally create one for the production.

DLP Policy in Teams:

To create a dedicated DLP policy for Teams navigate to security and compliance center – Create a new policy.

In our example we are creating a new policy which will block the sharing of PAN card number via teams channels and chats.

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Setting up Retention Policy in Exchange 2013

A Retention policy is a group of retention tags that can be applied globally to all the users . This helps us in maintaining the email lifecycle globally from the server end.

This will help users and the organization in terms of not loading up the server with unwanted old emails and end users maintaining their mailbox not as a part of their daily task. Messages are expired based on settings defined in the retention tags linked to the policy. There is no difference in retention policies from exchange 2010 to 2013 apart from the configuration part.

Below are the steps to set up retention policy in Exchange 2013.

1) Open EAC –> Select Compliance Management -> and click on retention policies

2) We have 3 options as shown above and we can choose as per the option and click on the + sign

3) In the next window you get the space where you can type the retention policy name. You can type any desired name since this name will not be displayed to the end users.