Windows 10: New sensitivity labeling for Office apps on Mac, iOS and Android

Brink · Jan 28, 2019

At the last Microsoft Ignite conference we announced several capabilities to help you better protect your sensitive information, wherever it lives or travels – across devices, apps, cloud services and on-premises. Our goal is to provide a consistent approach to discovering, classifying, labeling and protecting sensitive data. Today we’re announcing the general availability of sensitivity labeling built natively into Office apps on Mac, iOS and Android.

Apps now supporting end-user driven sensitivity labeling includes:

Office for Mac: Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook

Office mobile apps for iOS: Word, PowerPoint & Excel (Outlook coming soon)

Office mobile apps for Android: Word, PowerPoint & Excel (Outlook coming soon)

With these new capabilities, users can easily apply sensitivity labels to documents and emails – based on the labels defined by your organization. The experience is built directly into Office apps, with no need for any special plugins or add-ons. It looks and feels like the familiar Office experience, which makes it easy for workers to use.

Applying sensitivity labels not only helps you protect company confidential information, but also plays an important role in addressing compliance obligations, such as GDPR. Suppose that someone in the HR department is working on an Excel file that contains personal information, such as employee mailing addresses. Knowing that this information should be protected and kept private, the worker can select a “Confidential-PII” sensitivity label while in Excel, and the label applies the appropriate protection settings as configured by the organization.

Simple and consistent experience for end-users

The screenshots below illustrate the end-user experience in Office apps on Mac. The Sensitivity drop-down menu makes it easy to view the available labels and select the appropriate option. The experience is similar across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.

Apply sensitivity labels in Office apps on Mac – encryption, rights restrictions and visual markings can be applied, based on your label policy.

For Office mobile apps, the same set of sensitivity labels are available to users. No matter which device or platform they are working on, there is a consistent experience.

Easily apply same sensitivity labels in Office mobile apps on iOS…

…and in Office mobile apps on Android.

Once a sensitivity label is applied to a document or email, the label persists with the file, even if it travels to other locations, such as other devices, apps or cloud services. Your organization has the flexibility to customize its policy to apply different actions based on which label is selected, including encryption, restricting access to the file or applying visual markings to the document (such as headers/footers or a watermark indicating the file is confidential or contains sensitive information).

An email labeled “Highly Confidential” in Outlook for Mac get encrypted, and headers & footers are applied.

Administrators can also require users to provide a justification if they downgrade a previously applied sensitivity label – for example, changing a label from “Confidential” to “General”. This can be useful in keeping users accountable and maintaining an audit trail. You can also specify if a default label should be applied to new documents and emails. For example, you can set a “General Business” label to be applied by default, and then end-users can apply a different label based on the content they are authoring.

End-users can be prompted to provide a justification when downgrading a sensitivity label.

Sensitivity labels in documents and emails can also be understood by other apps and services. For example, if a “Highly Confidential” document resides on a Windows device, Windows Information Protection and Windows Defender ATP can work together to block the copying or sharing of content from that document to other locations on the device, such as personal email accounts or social accounts. Our growing ecosystem of partners using the Microsoft Information Protection SDK can also understand sensitivity labels and extend information protection to their own apps and services.

Getting started and next steps

To use these new labeling experiences, you must first configure your organization’s sensitivity labels in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center. Once configured, the labels become available in supported Office applications. If your organization has sensitivity labels configured in the Azure portal for Azure Information Protection, you will first need to migrate your labels to the Security & Compliance Center, and then the labels can be used by the updated Office apps. You can find more information on migration steps here.

To learn more about sensitivity labels in Office apps, review the documentation, which provides more information on supported apps and version numbers. Office 365 customers have access to the updated apps now, as of the January update.

We’re excited to release these new capabilities to help you better protect your sensitive information. In the coming months we’ll expand sensitivity labels to additional Office apps and platforms, including Outlook for iOS and Android, Outlook on the web, Office apps on Windows and Office Online apps . Please check the Microsoft 365 roadmap for the latest information.

We also look forward to hearing your feedback; you can also engage with us and the community on Yammer or Twitter and provide additional feedback on UserVoice.
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Brink · Jan 28, 2019

OneDrive New Sharing and Collaboration Features to Mac, iOS & Android

I get asked by users all the time, “Why should my company use cloud storage?” I always respond by saying that “cloud storage is great but, you need more than just storage and that’s where OneDrive comes in. OneDrive is all about enabling people to easily share and work together from anywhere, on any device, securely”.

Over the past year, we have worked hard to bring new sharing features to OneDrive and SharePoint, including real-time collaboration for Office for Mac as well as to iOS and Android.

Today we have several announcements that reinforce our commitment to deliver a first-class experience to our Mac, iOS and Android users.

Updates to Sharing in the OneDrive Mobile Application

We consistently hear that users are more confident and comfortable sharing files when given a simple, consistent experience across their devices. Over the past year, we’ve focused on delivering that with a unified sharing experience to Office, OneDrive, and SharePoint across desktop and web.

OneDrive Web View

OneDrive sharing from the Windows Explorer

OneDrive Sharing in an Office application

Today we take our next step in that journey by bringing the same, successful sharing experience that you currently see in our other clients to our OneDrive app for iOS and Android.

OneDrive on iOS

OneDrive on Android

This feature is available now for Android users and is currently rolling out for iOS users so, make sure to keep your OneDrive app updated to the latest version when prompted. If you don’t already have OneDrive mobile on your device, you can download it here.

New Updates for Mac Office Users

In January, we introduced that enhance how teams can easily produce advanced documents, presentations, and spreadsheets from anywhere, as well as have powerful ways to search, preview, and interact with those files.

Starting this week, the OneDrive client for Mac will now be part of the Office 2016 for Mac Click-to-Run installer. This means that the OneDrive standalone client will be automatically installed as part of your Office installations rather than having to install it separately. For customers currently running the Mac App Store version, OneDrive will now automatically migrate your settings to the standalone version.

Why are we doing this? First off, we want to make getting OneDrive as easy as possible as well as you up and running quickly. Second, many customers have asked us to add the standalone version of OneDrive as it will not only automatically launch at startup but the OneDrive quick access icon will stay persistent in the Mac Finder, much the same way it does on the Taskbar for Windows users today.

Finally, this update will also bring requested functionality to the Mac OneDrive client:

Office For Mac will work with OneDrive to intelligently open your files locally if it has already synced the file rather than download a new copy, so your files will open much more quickly

For our Office 2016 for Mac users, updates made to your documents will now sync only the changes (differential sync) rather than the full file each time you save, allowing you to work faster than ever.

Files synced onto the local machine can be shared within Office 2016 for Mac with the same user experience found on all OneDrive and SharePoint endpoints so go ahead and share from anywhere.

We will announce more features and functionality coming to our customers in May at the SharePoint Conference North America. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions you’d like to see us implement, make sure to visit our OneDrive UserVoice page.
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Source: OneDrive Brings New Sharing and Collaboration Features to Mac, iOS and Android - Microsoft Tech Community - 185389

Brink · Jan 28, 2019

Microsoft Edge now available for iOS and Android

In October, we introduced Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android in preview, in response to your request to make Microsoft Edge work well with your phones. A special THANK YOU goes out to each of you—hundreds of thousands of you—who downloaded, test-drove, and sent feedback on the preview apps. Your ideas and passion have contributed to an even better app experience.

We are pleased to announce that we’re removing the “preview” label from our Android and iOS app.

Starting today, Microsoft Edge is available for iOS (Apple Store) and Android (Google Play Store) as a free download.

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Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android brings familiar features like your Favorites, Reading List, New Tab Page, Reading View, and Roaming Passwords across your PC and phone, so, no matter the device, your browsing goes with you. But what makes Microsoft Edge really stand out is the ability to continue on your PC, which enables you to immediately open the page you’re looking at right on your PC—or save it to work on later.

And thanks to your feedback, we’ve added some new and popular features since launching the preview mobile app:

Roaming Passwords – Save a new password on your phone, and it follows you to your PC. Get to what you need, regardless of where you are or what device you are currently working on.

Dark theme – You can now enjoy this popular theme on your phone, in addition to your PC.

On market and language availability, Microsoft Edge for iOS is available in the United States (English), China (Simplified-Chinese), France (French) and the UK (English). Microsoft Edge for Android is available in the United States (English), Australia (English) Canada (English and French), China (Simplified-Chinese), France (French), India (English) and the UK (English). We look forward to bringing MS Edge for iOS and Android to additional markets and languages over time!

We are committed to empowering people and organizations to achieve more. And Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android is another step in that journey. While we’re excited to remove the preview label along with the download restrictions, we are more excited about all that’s ahead. We have a long list of new features to build and improvements to make. We hope you will try the app alongside your Windows 10 PCs and provide your ideas on what can make it even better. As has been our approach with Windows 10, we’ll continue to try new things, learn and build the best experiences possible.
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Source: Microsoft Edge now available for iOS and Android - Windows Blog

Brink · Jan 28, 2019

Microsoft Edge now available for iOS and Android (Updated)

3/26/18, 9AM PT: iPad and Android tablet owners – we’ve got some great news for you! Microsoft Edge is now available as a free download in the Apple Store and Google Play Store. Now, you too, can experience familiar features like your Favorites (including Roaming Favorites), Reading List, New Tab Page, Reading View, and Roaming Passwords in Microsoft Edge across all of your devices. And, what makes Microsoft Edge really stand out is the ability to continue on your PC, allowing you to open a web page from your phone right on to your PC. We look forward to bringing new features and updates to Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android in future updates, so please keep providing feedback!

In October, we introduced Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android in preview, in response to your request to make Microsoft Edge work well with your phones. A special THANK YOU goes out to each of you—hundreds of thousands of you—who downloaded, test-drove, and sent feedback on the preview apps. Your ideas and passion have contributed to an even better app experience.

We are pleased to announce that we’re removing the “preview” label from our Android and iOS app.

Starting today, Microsoft Edge is available for iOS (Apple Store) and Android (Google Play Store) as a free download.

Q8pbqba6rzY

Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android brings familiar features like your Favorites, Reading List, New Tab Page, Reading View, and Roaming Passwords across your PC and phone, so, no matter the device, your browsing goes with you. But what makes Microsoft Edge really stand out is the ability to continue on your PC, which enables you to immediately open the page you’re looking at right on your PC—or save it to work on later.

And thanks to your feedback, we’ve added some new and popular features since launching the preview mobile app:

Roaming Passwords – Save a new password on your phone, and it follows you to your PC. Get to what you need, regardless of where you are or what device you are currently working on.

Dark theme – You can now enjoy this popular theme on your phone, in addition to your PC.

On market and language availability, Microsoft Edge for iOS is available in the United States (English), China (Simplified-Chinese), France (French) and the UK (English). Microsoft Edge for Android is available in the United States (English), Australia (English) Canada (English and French), China (Simplified-Chinese), France (French), India (English) and the UK (English). We look forward to bringing MS Edge for iOS and Android to additional markets and languages over time!

We are committed to empowering people and organizations to achieve more. And Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android is another step in that journey. While we’re excited to remove the preview label along with the download restrictions, we are more excited about all that’s ahead. We have a long list of new features to build and improvements to make. We hope you will try the app alongside your Windows 10 PCs and provide your ideas on what can make it even better. As has been our approach with Windows 10, we’ll continue to try new things, learn and build the best experiences possible.
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Source: Microsoft Edge now available for iOS and Android - Windows Blog

Windows 10: New sensitivity labeling for Office apps on Mac, iOS and Android

New sensitivity labeling for Office apps on Mac, iOS and Android

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