We are excited to announce the latest updates and enhancements in Powell Governance for November 2024. This release is focused on improving governance flexibility, streamlining communication, and enhancing control over workspace configurations. Our new features aim to optimize sensitivity labels reporting, provide more engaging communication tools, and offer greater control over the lifecycle of teams and workspaces. 

The release is planned for Tuesday, October 29th, 2024.

Sensitivity labels reporting

We’re introducing sensitivity label reporting, enabling administrators to filter workspaces by their sensitivity labels through reports. This update offers greater visibility and control, allowing admins to efficiently manage and monitor workspaces in line with their organization's governance policies.

New campaign actions

Extend expiration date

Campaigns now include an option to request workspace owners to extend the expiration date on a workspace, whether an expiration date has already been defined or is missing but present in the team template. This action ensures that workspace owners can easily update or set expiration dates, providing better control over the lifecycle of their teams. Owners can be asked to extend the expiration date during campaigns, following the same process to other campaign actions.

Missing tag values

Campaigns now also include an option to request workspace owners to fill in the missing tag values for their workspaces. This action ensures that all workspaces are properly configured and managed according to the organization's governance policies. Owners can be asked to update the tag values during campaigns, following the same process as other campaign actions.

Improved email visualization in campaigns

To enhance communication between administrators and workspace owners, we’ve introduced better email visualization in campaigns. Emails sent within campaigns are now clearer, better formatted, and provide a more engaging reading experience for recipients.

This update is aimed at improving the effectiveness of communication, ensuring that messages are well understood and impactful.

Channel rework in templates

We’ve reworked the way channels are managed within templates, allowing administrators to configure both public and private channels more effectively. This update includes new options to edit channel details, manage sensitivity labels, and oversee tabs within each channel, providing greater flexibility and control over team configurations.

Other updates

• Site template application at template save: As it's already possible to do so on teams templates, it will be possible to apply a SharePoint site template on associated sites when saving it.

• Site storage quota edition after creation: Site storage quotas will now be editable by administrators in site edition. It is possible to override the template configuration if needed.

• New user report properties: New properties will be available in user's custom reports concerning the number of workspaces they are owners or members of. Here is the complete list you will have access to:

  • Number of workspaces a user is owner of

  • Number of workspaces a user is member of

  • Number of teams a user is owner of

  • Number of teams a user is member of

  • Number of sites a user is owner of

  • Number of sites a user is member of

• Archived teams as reference teams in templates: Archived teams will now be available to choose as reference teams of your templates.

• Powell and Microsoft Ids in automations: As we already do for our API endpoints, Powell Governance automations will now send both Powell and Microsoft workspace Ids when using automation.