What's new in Microsoft Purview

Whether it be adding new solutions to the Microsoft Purview governance or compliance portals, 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 and risk and compliance areas. Take a look at the following information to see what's new in Microsoft Purview.

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November 2023

Announced at Microsoft Ignite

The following new Microsoft Purview capabilities are announced at Microsoft Ignite:

Communication compliance

Data lifecycle management and records management

Data Loss Prevention

  • In preview: Microsoft managed storage for DLP evidence. When saving evidence of the matches detected by your DLP policies, you can now use Azure blob storage managed by Microsoft as an alternative to creating an Azure blob that you manage yourself.

  • General availability (GA): Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan content in images for sensitive information.

Information protection

  • New graphic added to Consider a phased deployment to conceptually illustrate a phased deployment of sensitivity labels and DLP policies that become more integrated, and with more restrictive controls.

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

  • In preview: Identify duplicates, apply actions once to all duplicate items, and filter duplicates from view when reviewing data for a subject rights request.

Sensitivity labels

  • General availability (GA): Sensitivity labels are recognized and used by Copilot for Microsoft 365 to provide an extra layer of protection for your organization's data.

October 2023

Adaptive scopes

New guidance: How adaptive scopes work with Microsoft Entra administrative units

Communication compliance

Data lifecycle management and records management

Data loss prevention

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Sensitivity labels

  • General availability (GA): Outlook on the web supports the sensitivity bar and label colors.
  • General availability (GA): PDF support for auto-labeling policies, default sensitivity labels for SharePoint document libraries, and labeling activities in Office on the web that include manual labeling and displaying labeled documents, and encrypted PDFs that are now supported for DLP, eDiscovery, and search. You must opt-in for this PDF support.
  • General availability (GA): Now in Current Channel, in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows and Mac, users can no longer select Information Rights Management (IRM) options that can override your sensitivity label encryption settings. Instead, users are prompted to apply a sensitivity label. For more information, see the updated section, Information Rights Management (IRM) options and sensitivity labels.
  • Updated guidance:
    • For auto-labeling policies, added a callout note that simulation results might not include expected files because they were updated after simulation ran.
    • New requirement for a default sensitivity label for a SharePoint document library that files must contain content to be labeled. Empty files are labeled when they are updated with content.
    • Clarification that sensitivity labels to protect meetings don't extend to related meeting items, such as recordings, transcripts, whiteboard, and tasks.
    • The Label priority (order matters) section is updated to reflect the updated UI that displays Priority instead of Order for the Labels page of the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

September 2023

Audit

Communication compliance

Compliance Manager

  • Improvement actions have a new design to make it easier to digest status information and record implementation and testing work.
  • Improvement actions no longer support the "parent" testing type, which linked the test status to that of another action.
  • The page formerly titled "Compliance score calculation" has been renamed Compliance Manager scoring, and has updates to clarify action types and scoring.

Data lifecycle management and records management

Data loss prevention

  • Named entities are now supported on government clouds. The full list of supported clouds now includes:

    • Microsoft Commercial Cloud
    • Microsoft Government Community Cloud
    • Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High
    • Microsoft 365 Department of Defense
  • General availability (GA): Just-in-time protection for Endpoints is now generally available.

eDiscovery

Information barriers

  • Updated subscription and licensing references in all articles.

Information protection

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Sensitive information types

Sensitivity labels

  • General availability (GA): In SharePoint and Teams, you can see and apply sensitivity labels to documents by using the details pane.
  • General availability (GA): The following new conditions are now generally available for auto-labeling policies. Just the final new condition listed requires an advanced rule, and is applicable to OneDrive and SharePoint only. All the other new conditions are available in common rules:
    • Attachment or file extension is
    • Attachment or document name contains words or phrases
    • Attachment or document property is
    • Attachment or document size equals or is greater than
    • Document created by

August 2023

Audit

Communication compliance

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • Improvements for archive mailboxes: When a mailbox is enabled for archive and assigned a retention policy to retain items, or any other type of hold, more storage space is available to support a large number of deleted items. The storage quota for the Recoverable Items folder in the primary mailbox is increased by 5 GB, raising it from 100 GB to 105 GB. Correspondingly, the Recoverable Items warning quota is increased from 90 GB to 95 GB.
  • New guidance: Will an existing label be overridden or removed?

Data loss prevention

eDiscovery

Information barriers

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Sensitivity labels

Zero Trust

July 2023

Audit

  • New notification concerning the retirement of Audit Classic Search.
  • New: Addition of new operation search bar in the compliance portal.
  • Updates to clarify the audit item lifetime limit. This is determined when it's added to the auditing pipeline and is based on the licensing defaults or applicable retention policies.
  • Clarification on the support for the Search-MailboxAuditLog and Search-AdminAuditLog cmdlets.

Communication compliance

Data loss prevention

eDiscovery

  • Clarification about placing distribution lists on hold. When you select a distribution list to be placed on hold, the hold is placed on each of the member mailboxes in the distribution list when the policy is created. Subsequent changes in the distribution list do not change or update the holds or the policy.
  • General availability (GA): Upgrading a case to eDiscovery (Premium).
  • General availability (GA): Jobs report in eDiscovery (Premium).
  • New: Improving on the default filters in previous versions, eDiscovery (Premium) now provides advanced filters that let you build more flexible and advanced filters for review sets.
  • Clarification on the default options to select retrieval options in draft collections. These are configured on the global eDiscovery Settings > Collections page. Retrieval options selected on the Collections setting page are selected as the default retrieval settings for all collections.
  • Updates to clarify recipient expansion searches. These searches may not return expected results when using an email alias or part of an alias. We recommend using the full UPN in these searches.

Insider risk management

Sensitivity labels

  • General availability (GA): A Contextual Summary tab is added to auto-labeling policies that are in simulation. Similar to other solutions that support contextual summary, when you select an item to review for matched files on SharePoint or OneDrive, this new tab highlights the matched content and its surrounding context. Use this tab to confirm that the match is positive and therefore suitable to turn on the policy. Or, the match is negative, in which case you can fine-tune the policy and rerun simulation. Contextual summary isn't supported for emails.
  • In preview: Now rolling out in preview, PDF support for auto-labeling policies, default sensitivity labels for SharePoint document libraries, and labeling activities in Office on the web that include manual labeling and displaying labeled documents, and encrypted PDFs that are now supported for DLP, eDiscovery, and search. You must opt-in for this PDF support.

June 2023

Communication compliance

Compliance Manager

  • Updated the regulations list page for the addition of a new template for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
  • Update to clarify that some automatically tested actions might show a status of "Out of scope" within the first 24 hours of setup with Microsoft Defender for Cloud monitoring.
  • Update to reflect that the link to export an assessment report is now called "Export actions."

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • General availability (GA): Auto-labeling retention policies for cloud attachments that are shared via Viva Engage are now in general availability.
  • Rolling out: A default retention label for Outlook is always retained when an item is moved to the Deleted Items folder.

Data loss prevention

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Sensitivity labels

  • General availability (GA): Now rolling out, Outlook for Android and Outlook for iOS support a setting for mandatory labeling that you can configure with Microsoft Intune to prompt users to select a sensitivity label when they first compose an email instead of when they send it.
  • General availability (GA): Outlook for Android and Outlook for iOS, the sensitivity bar and label colors are now in general availability. For iOS, the release is still rolling out.
  • In preview: Now rolling out in preview, OneDrive locations for auto-labeling policies are changing from sites specified by URLs to users and groups. This change of configuration means that administrative units are now supported for OneDrive auto-labeling policies. Any existing OneDrive sites specified in auto-labeling policies as site URLs will continue to work but before you can add more OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing OneDrive sites specified as URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups.
  • In preview: Now rolling out in preview, limited support for labels configured for user-defined permissions for Office on the web, SharePoint and OneDrive.
  • In preview: The following new conditions are rolling out in preview for auto-labeling policies. Just the final new condition listed requires an advanced rule, and is applicable to OneDrive and SharePoint only. All the other new conditions are available in common rules:
    • Attachment or file extension is
    • Attachment or document name contains words or phrases
    • Attachment or document property is
    • Attachment or document size equals or is greater than
    • Document created by
  • In preview: A Contextual Summary tab is added to auto-labeling policies that are in simulation. Similar to other solutions that support contextual summary, when you select an item to review for matched files on SharePoint or OneDrive, this new tab highlights the matched content and its surrounding context. Use this tab to confirm that the match is positive and therefore suitable to turn on the policy. Or, the match is negative, in which case you can fine-tune the policy and rerun simulation. Contextual summary isn't supported for emails.
  • Removal of limitations for Teams when using sensitivity labels: Several previous limitations are removed for Teams protected meetings, which include Safari and Firefox support to prevent copy chat, support for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), policy settings for justification for changing a label, mandatory labeling, and a help link to a custom help page, and more methods are now supported to prevent copying chat.

May 2023

Audit

Compliance Manager

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • General availability (GA): Simulation mode for auto-apply retention label policies is now generally available.
  • General availability (GA): Auto-labeling retention policies for cloud attachments that are shared via Exchange or Teams are now generally available. Cloud attachments shared via Viva Engage remain in preview.

eDiscovery

  • In preview: New article for guest access in eDiscovery (Premium). With guest access, you can provide access to an eDiscovery Premium case to people outside your organization. You can invite guests users to eDiscovery (Premium) cases just like you can invite guests into your Teams environment.
  • In preview: New support for Export collected items and Export as report options for review sets in eDiscovery (Premium).
  • In preview: New support for viewing job reports for eDiscovery (Premium). eDiscovery (Premium) now includes a jobs report tool that lists all jobs that count towards the jobs concurrency and daily limits in eDiscovery for a defined time period.
  • Updates to clarify the indexing of non-custodial data sources in eDiscovery (Premium) cases.

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

  • Updates to Get started with Priva: insights for the data minimization policy begin surfacing within three days after starting Priva for data that hasn't been modified within the last 30 days.
  • Updates to Find and visualize personal data in Priva for the privacy regulations card, which pulls in insights from Compliance Manager.

Sensitivity labels

  • Rolling out: PDF support for Office on the web so that when Word, Excel, and PowerPoint convert a labeled Office document into a PDF document, the label with any content markings persists.
  • In preview: Built-in labeling support for Double Key Encryption (DKE) is in preview as a parity feature for the AIP add-in.

April 2023

Audit

Communication compliance

Compliance Manager

  • Updated regulatory templates list with templates Turkey - Information and Communication Security Guide and SA - Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA) & National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA).

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • In preview: Scan for sensitive information in images with support for optical character recognition when you use auto-apply retention label policies.
  • In preview: Auto-labeling retention policies for cloud attachments that were already in preview now include attachments and links shared in Viva Engage.
  • In preview: Support for Microsoft Entra administrative units—for both data lifecycle management and records management—is starting to roll out.
  • In preview: You can now optionally configure auto-approval when you configure a retention label for disposition review.

Data loss prevention

eDiscovery

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Sensitivity labels