What's new in Microsoft Purview

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Whether it's adding new solutions, updating existing features based on your feedback, or rolling out fresh and updated documentation, Microsoft Purview helps you stay on top of the ever-changing data governance, data security, and risk and compliance areas. Take a look at the following information to see what's new in Microsoft Purview.

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What's planned for Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview continues to add new solutions and features to help with data governance, data security, and risk and compliance in your organization. Check out the following roadmap sites to learn more about what's planned for Microsoft Purview:

  • Roadmap for data governance solutions.
  • Roadmap for data security and risk and compliance solutions.

May 2025

Audit

Collection policies

Communication Compliance

Data Governance

Data Lifecycle Management

  • In preview: Rolling out, new retention policy locations and expanded support for Copilots and AI apps. Teams chats have been separated from Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, with a location just for Teams chat. Current locations that support Copilot and other AI apps:

    • Microsoft Copilot experiences: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot, Copilot in Fabric, Copilot Studio
    • Enterprise AI Apps: Microsoft Entra-connected AI apps, ChatGPT Enterprise, Azure AI Services
    • Other AI Apps: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Bing, DeepSeek

  • In preview: Retention for the Teams chats location now includes the Teams Facilitator features of moderation for meetings, and questions and answers for meetings. Previously, just AI-generated notes for chats were included.

Data Loss Prevention

-In preview: Learn about Microsoft Purview Network Data Security (preview)

Data Security Posture Management for AI

  • In preview: Rolling out, the new recommendation to Extend insights into sensitive info in AI app interactions, which creates a one-click policy that uses network data security to detect sensitive info types shared with AI apps in browsers, applications, APIs, add-ins, and more, using a Secure Access Service Edge or Security Service Edge integration.

Device Onboarding

eDiscovery

Insider Risk Management

Microsoft Purview billing models

Sensitivity labels

  • New: Three new sensitivity label auditing events to help you identify failed labeling operations: Failed to apply file sensitivity label; Failed to change file sensitivity label; Failed to remove file sensitivity label. These events can be particularly helpful for monitoring auto-labeling policies. Refer to the new table for a description of FailureReason property values for these activities.

April 2025

Administrative units

Collection policies

  • In preview: New. Collection Policies solution overview (preview) provides a high-level overview of the Collection Policies solution, including its purpose, key features, and benefits. This article is intended for users who are new to the Collection Policies solution and want to understand its capabilities and how it can help them manage their data collection processes more effectively.

Data Governance

  • In preview: Critical data elements (CDE) and objectives and key results (OKR) data are now available for self-service analytics and can be used alongside other Microsoft Purview metadata for analytics and insights.
  • In preview: Data Health controls users can configure the severity of rules they apply for each data health control.
  • General Availability (GA): If your Azure Databricks is running on a virtual network or behind a private endpoint, you can now use Microsoft Purview data quality virtual network enabled compute to connect and perform data quality assessments, including profiling and rule-based scanning. This feature is now generally available and supported across all regions.
  • In preview: If your Snowflake is running on a Virtual Network or behind a private endpoint, you can now use Microsoft Purview data quality virtual network enabled compute to connect and perform data quality assessments, including profiling and rule-based scanning. This feature is now in preview and supported across all regions.
  • General Availability (GA): The consumed Processing Units (PUs) per data quality job are now displayed on the Data Quality Job Monitoring page. You can view the PU consumption for both profiling and data quality scanning jobs. Additionally, you can calculate the cost of your data quality scans and profiling activities based on the SKU type configured for your organization.

Data Lifecycle Management

Data Loss Prevention

  • In preview: Learn about Advanced Label Based Protection (preview). This setting enhances productivity for users that label and encrypt file types other than those for Office and PDF by using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client.
  • In preview: Expanded Coverage for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for DLP policies.

Data Security Investigations (preview)

  • In preview: Data Security Investigations is now available in public preview to help cybersecurity teams in your organization harness generative artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and respond to data security incidents, risky insiders, and data breaches.

Data Security Posture Management for AI

  • General availability (GA): Previously named data assessments and now renamed data risk assessments, the default weekly assessment is now GA while custom assessments remain in preview. For privacy requirements, data is stored and displayed for 30 days only, with a new field that displays when the data expires.
  • In preview: Data risk assessments now support on-demand classification as a remediation action to scan data for sensitive information from SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts that report items as Data Not Scanned. From the flyout pane for the location, select the Identify tab, and then select the new option to Scan all items for sensitive information.
  • In preview: The recently released recommendation and one-click policy to secure interactions for Microsoft Copilot experiences now also includes Security Copilot. As a shortcut to this policy recommendation, use the banner at the top of the Overview page that displays Microsoft Purview now secures Copilot in Fabric and Microsoft Security Copilot interactions. and select the Learn more option.
  • Updated: Now that Endpoint DLP supports Off mode, going forward, the following one-click policies will apply to supported generative AI sites only, rather than all sites. If you previously created these policies and want the updated configuration, delete and recreate them:
    • DSPM for AI: Detect sensitive info added to AI sites
    • DSPM for AI - Block sensitive info from AI sites
  • New: Rolling out, Export options for data risk assessments and activity explorer that let you save and customize the current data into a choice of file formats (Excel, .csv, JSON, TSV).

Microsoft Purview billing models

  • In preview: The Microsoft Purview Billing Models article is updated for multiple new meters and Microsoft Purview services that have features that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Sensitivity labels

  • General Availability (GA): Dynamic watermarks are now also generally available for labels that are configured with user-defined permissions (the Let users assign permissions encryption option). Dynamic watermarks deter leakage of labeled and encrypted documents by rendering over the document the reader's Universal Principal Name (UPN) or other identifying information. Unlike standard content markings, dynamic watermarks can't be changed or removed by the user.
  • General availability (GA): When you protect a Teams meeting with a sensitivity label, you can automatically apply or recommend that the meeting is labeled with the highest priority sensitivity label from files shared for the meeting. Use the new label policy setting Apply inheritance between Teams meetings and artifacts and ensure that this policy is published to meeting organizers.
  • New: The Microsoft Purview information protection client supports the Endpoint DLP preview setting Advanced label-based protection for all files on devices for users who label and encrypt file types other than those for Office and PDF. For more information, see Integration with Endpoint data loss prevention.

March 2025

Data Governance

  • Collection limit increase: Data Map collection limit has increased from 400 to 1000.
  • In preview: Data observability in Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog provides a single view of your data estate to help you understand lineage and data health, and identify improvements in metadata, ownership, data quality, or data architecture.
  • General Availability (GA): Snowflake view support for data profiling and data quality scan is now generally available. Data quality stewards can profile and scan data in Snowflake view to measure and monitor the quality of data in Snowflake view.
  • General Availability (GA): Table lookup data quality rule enhancement enables data quality steward to compare and confirm that a value in one table can be found in a specific column of another table.
  • In preview: Data governance and data quality action data are now available for self-service analytics. Customers can use data governance and data quality action data alongside other Purview metadata for analytics and insights.
  • General Availability (GA): Azure Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW) is supported for measuring data quality. Users can profile their data, apply data quality rules, and schedule data quality jobs for their data in Azure Dedicated SQL Pool (SQL Data Warehouse). See connection setup instructions.
  • Updated: The Data Quality Steward role is enhanced to allow for the setup of a data quality schedule to run a data quality scanning job hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly.

Data lifecycle management and records management

Data loss prevention

Data Security Posture Management for AI

  • In preview: New recommendation and one-click policy to capture interactions for Microsoft Copilot experiences, which captures prompts and responses for Copilot in Fabric. The first Fabric copilot supported in DSPM for AI is Copilot for Power BI.
  • Updated: Added clarification to the Prerequisites documentation that the Microsoft Purview browser extension is required on Windows for the Insider Risk Management policy, and for endpoint DLP policies on Windows when you use Chrome.

February 2025

Audit

Data connectors

  • Hong Kong CSL SMS/MMS data connector: New article for setting up a connector to archive Hong Kong CSL SMS/MMS data.

Data Governance

Data Security Posture Management for AI

Device Onboarding

eDiscovery

  • General Availability (GA): New eDiscovery experience in the Microsoft Purview portal is now generally available.
  • Process report: Clarifications for the processes scoped to each eDiscovery page in the Process report.
  • Distribution groups: Support for distribution groups as data sources when creating eDiscovery holds.
  • Existing holds: Clarifications on the removal of holds and associated locations limits based on your eDiscovery license.
  • Search for eDiscovery activities in the audit log: New article to help you search for activities that are performed in Microsoft Purview portal or in PowerShell that are logged in the audit log.
  • Mailbox hold updates: When migrating mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online, you need to create new holds in the Microsoft Purview portal for mailboxes with holds to preserve the data. Legacy holds in on-premises Exchange organizations aren’t migrated.

Insider risk management

  • Limits in Insider Risk Management: New article about the item, settings, triggers, and policy limits in Insider Risk Management.
  • In preview: New Microsoft Entra ID indicators in Insider Risk Management.

Sensitivity labels

  • General Availability (GA): Dynamic watermarks are now generally available for labels that are configured with the Assign permissions now encryption configuration, sometimes referred to as "admin-defined permissions". Support for user-defined permissions (the Let users assign permissions option) is now in preview. Dynamic watermarks deter leakage of labeled and encrypted documents by rendering over the document the reader's Universal Principal Name (UPN) or other identifying information. Unlike standard content markings, dynamic watermarks can't be changed or removed by the user.
  • In preview: When you protect a Teams meeting with a sensitivity label, you can now automatically apply or recommend that the meeting is labeled with the highest priority sensitivity label from files shared for the meeting. Use the new label policy setting Apply inheritance between Teams meetings and artifacts and ensure that this policy is published to meeting organizers.
  • Extending prevent copying chat to clipboard: For protected meetings, the label setting that prevents copying chat to the clipboard now also prevents or allows copying and forwarding links, live captions, transcripts, and AI-generated meeting recap content.

January 2025

Data Governance

  • In preview: Data quality native support for the Iceberg open table format is now available in public preview. Microsoft Purview users using storage solutions such as ADLS Gen2, Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, AWS S3, and GCP GCS can now use Microsoft Purview to curate, govern, and perform data health control and data quality assessments on Iceberg data assets.

eDiscovery

  • Process report updates: Clarifications for the Process manager on the scoped processes to each eDiscovery page in the Microsoft Purview portal.
  • Download report updates: New information details for each section of the Summary CSV report for Process managers.
  • Teams content types: Clarifications on searches for recorded teams meetings and storage, based on initators and attendees.
  • In preview: Summarize cases with Microsoft Copilot.

December 2024

Compliance Manager

  • Updated: New regulatory templates are published in Compliance Manager:
    • CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark Level 1 V4.0.0
    • CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark Level 2 V4.0.0
    • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Personal Data Protection Law (KSA PDPL)

Data Governance

  • General Availability (GA): The governance domains are now listed consistently in a hierarchical or tree view on Requests and Data Quality pages. Customers can now understand the domain hierarchy clearly across areas of Unified Catalog in a consistent manner.
  • In preview: Self service analytics and insights for data governance metadata (preview) now extends to ADLS Gen2, which is in preview with general availability-grade support. Customers can now subscribe to Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog metadata to publish it to either ADLS Gen2 or Fabric OneLake storage for analytics and actionable insights.
  • In preview: Data governance health report now has a glossary terms report (preview), providing a shared vocabulary for business users to make it easier to understand how terms and their definitions bring business context to data products. These terms are integral to Microsoft Purview, supporting data governance by incorporating policies. The glossary terms report, in preview with general availability-grade support, allows data stewards to explore:
    • Trends in glossary terms,
    • Glossary terms hierarchy,
    • Data product associations with glossary terms, and
    • Governance domain associations with glossary terms.
  • In preview: Fabric Lakehouse sub-item metadata and data quality scanning now in preview.
    • Comprehensive and granular metadata: Lakehouse table level metadata is available in Purview Data Map for enhanced data governance and security.
    • Enriched Unified Catalog with Lakehouse sub-item metadata: Discover table/file level metadata in the catalog by browsing through Fabric Lakehouse, table/folder/files, and asset detail view.
    • Table level data quality scan: Measure data quality of a Fabric Lakehouse table by associating a Lakehouse table to a data product and running the scan.