What's new in Microsoft Purview

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.

October 2024

Microsoft Purview Data Governance

  • Self-service analytics and insights for data governance metadata (Public Preview)

    • This feature empowers data analysts and data stewards to analyze and gain insights from Microsoft Purview Data Governance metadata in Fabric OneLake. Customers will have full flexibility in computing and tooling to leverage insights from Purview Data Governance metadata to manage and enhance their data estate health. They can link data governance metadata with other data sources to create leadership reports and generate insights that support fact-based decision-making and foster a culture of data governance across the organization.
    • ADLSg2 support is currently in gated preview. Please contact your Microsoft Purview account team to have your tenant allowlisted to access Purview Data Governance metadata for your ADLSg2 storage. You need to provide the following information for allow listing: Tenant ID, Organization name, Purview Account name, Purview Account ID, Azure Region, and Azure Subscription ID. Learn more..
  • Azure Databricks view support is in public preview. Azure Databricks users will be able to profile and run data quality scans for data in Azure Databricks views in addition to Azure Databricks tables. Learn more

  • Native Synapse connector for Serverless and Synapse Data Warehouse with managed vNet support is available in gated preview for both tables and views. Customers will be able to profile and run data quality scans on their data in Synapse behind the private endpoint. You need to provide following information for allow listing: Tenant ID, Organization name, Purview Account name, Purview Account ID, Azure Region, and Azure Subscription ID. Learn more.

AI Hub

  • UI changes to navigation: Although there's no change to functionality, some AI hub pages and navigation have changed. For example, the original Analytics page is replaced by Overview and Recommendations pages, and the one-click policies have moved from the Policies page to individual recommendation cards. If you need help navigating the AI hub, see How to use the AI hub.
  • Event name change: The event name of "Classification stamped" in activity explorer is changed to Sensitive info types detected.

Compliance Manager

Purview Deployment Models

  • New model: Microsoft Purview deployment models are a new content set authored by the product engineering team and are based on real-world customer experiences. They are intended to streamline and accelerate your deployment process for specific business scenarios. The first one, Secure by default with Microsoft Purview and protect against oversharing focuses on:
    • Implementing a secure-by-default configuration using sensitivity labeling
    • Using label publishing defaults and auto-labeling in the Office client.
    • Using contextual default in SharePoint sites to increase deployment velocity.

Sensitive information types

Sensitivity labels

  • Loop support: New article that lists the supported apps and scenarios for using sensitivity labels with Loop components, pages, and workspaces, Use sensitivity labels with Microsoft Loop.
  • Change for label scopes: The Items scope is renamed Files & other data assets. This renamed scope now includes items that were previously in the removed Schematized data assets scope and newly includes items for Microsoft Fabric.
  • In preview: Sensitivity labels that apply access control to encrypt items now support protection policies for Microsoft Fabric. For more information, see Protection policies in Microsoft Fabric.
  • In preview: Now rolling out, a naming change to the encryption permissions levels that you see in the Microsoft Purview portal and Microsoft Purview compliance portal, and that users see when a sensitivity label prompts them for permissions in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The actual usage rights included in these permission levels haven't changed. Accompanying this change is a new dialog box for users, which displays the permission levels and additional options.
    • Reviewer is renamed Restricted Editor
    • Co-author is renamed Editor
    • Co-owner is renamed Owner
  • Improvements to default labels: Rolling out, the default sensitivity labels now include the Meetings scope if the tenant has licenses to manually apply a label for scheduled meetings. Additionally:
    • The accompanying sensitivity label policy includes a default Teams meeting label.
    • If the tenant has licenses to manually apply the label to Teams meetings, some of the sensitivity labels also have settings configured to protect these meetings.
  • Improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot in Outlook (Classic) for Windows now supports encrypted items for version 2408 in Monthly Enterprise Channel.

September 2024

Microsoft Purview Data Governance GA

The Microsoft Purview Data Governance experience with Data Catalog is generally available with some new features and capabilities:

  • Business concept deletes - enables data stewards to delete business concepts (governance domains, data products, glossary terms, critical data elements, and OKRs that are unpublished and don't have associations with other concepts.
  • Data catalog admin settings - the admin experience including roles, permissions, and self-service analytics is now part of the Solution Settings for Data Catalog in the Microsoft Purview portal.
  • Data product policies - optional access providers in data product request access workflows can record the asset level access provisioning status for assets in the data product and mark the request as Completed. See our access policies article for more information.
  • Data product request access workflows -
    • Data consumers can select a request from the My Data Access tab in Data Products page and see the request details, including approval details and asset level access provisioning status. Learn more.
    • Access request approvers or new optional access providers who are the last step in the workflow can record asset level access provisioning status for assets in the data product and mark the request as ‘Completed’ post approval. Learn more.
  • Data quality for multi-cloud data sources - Data Quality Stewards will be able to profile, add data quality rules, run data quality scans and monitor data quality scores of their data in multicloud data estate.
  • Enterprise glossary (Preview) - data consumers can browse and understand all glossary terms, CDEs, and OKRs across the enterprise in this new page under Discovery.
  • New navigation - New navigation and menu enhancements to navigate the 3 main categories of experiences: Discovery, Catalog management, and Health management, and separate admin experiences to Solution settings in the Microsoft Purview portal.
  • Partner-built bulk import functionality - Download our partner Macula’s standalone utilities to bulk import business concepts into the new Data Catalog.
  • Self-service analytics and insights for data governance metadata (Private Preview) - Empower data analysts and data stewards to analyze and derive insights from Microsoft Purview Data Governance metadata. Customers will have full flexibility in computing and tooling to analyze and utilize insights from Purview Data Governance metadata to manage and improve their data estate health. They can link data governance metadata with other data sources to create leadership reports and generate insights that drive fact-based decision-making and foster a data governance culture across the company. Learn more.
  • Tree-view visualization: Hierarchy for governance domains and glossary terms can be visualized as a tree-view within the catalog management and discovery experiences.

Sensitivity labels

  • Improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot in Outlook (Classic) for Windows is now rolling out support for encrypted items, starting with version 2408 in Current Channel.

August 2024

AI Hub

  • Copilot prompts and responses reported by activity explorer: The activity explorer event AI interaction includes the prompt and response independently from eDiscovery and insider risk management.
  • Improvements to permissions: You can use the Microsoft Purview Security Reader role for read-only access to the Microsoft Purview AI Hub. For more information, and a comparison breakdown of permissions by activities, see the new article, Permissions for Microsoft Purview AI Hub.

Compliance Manager

Sensitivity labels

  • In preview: Dynamic watermarks are now also supported on iOS and Android, and the custom string supports a date and time variable.

July 2024

AI Hub

Audit

Compliance Manager

Data connectors

  • Retired: All Veritas data connectors in Microsoft Purview were retired in June 2024. Non-Veritas data connectors in your organization aren't affected by this change. Contact your Veritas account representative if you have questions about Veritas archiving services.

eDiscovery

  • In preview: Use the new eDiscovery (preview) solution in the Microsoft Purview portal to identify, review, and manage content in Microsoft 365 services to support your investigations. The new experience supports most of the features and capabilities from the previous experience, with more features being added over the coming months.
  • Updates: New scenarios added for the Invoke-ComplianceSecurityFilterAction cmdlet for compliance boundaries.

Microsoft Purview portal

  • Updated: The global search feature now supports the new User category in the Microsoft Purview portal.

Sensitivity labels

  • In preview: New privacy control for Office apps that prevents sending labeled content to some connected experiences for analysis. This setting impacts services such as data loss prevention, automatic and recommended labeling, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • In preview: Dynamic watermarks to 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: Rolling out, the condition builder to create search queries in eDiscovery from the Microsoft Purview portal supports sensitivity labels. For example, as part of your eDiscovery case, restrict content to files and emails that have a Highly Confidential sensitivity label. Or conversely, exclude content to files and emails that have a Public sensitivity label.
  • Improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot: Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android join the platforms that support Copilot in Outlook for encrypted items.

June 2024

Communication compliance

Data lifecycle management and records management

Insider risk management

Sensitivity labels

  • General Availability (GA): New privacy control for Office apps that prevents sending labeled content to some connected experiences for analysis. This setting impacts services such as data loss prevention, automatic and recommended labeling, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • Improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot in Outlook now supports encrypted items for Outlook for Mac, Outlook on the web, and the New Outlook for Windows.
  • Improvements to auto-labeling: The maximum number of automatically labeled files in your tenant per day is increased from 25,000 to 100,000 and the number of matched files that simulation supports is increased from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000.
  • New: Additional column, "New Outlook for Windows" is now included in the capabilities table for Outlook.

Data governance private endpoints

May 2024

AI Hub

  • In preview: Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides easy to use graphical tools and reports to quickly gain insights into AI use within your organization. Not just for Microsoft 365 Copilot, but also third-party LLMs. One-click policies help you protect your data and comply with regulatory requirements. For more information, see Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides insights, policies, and controls for AI apps.

Communication compliance

Compliance Manager

  • Updated: There are four new AI regulatory templates to help organizations assess, implement, and strengthen their compliance against AI regulations, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, ISO/IEC 23894:2023, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF.

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • In preview: Adaptive protection for content in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. An auto-labeling retention policy for these locations is automatically created when you use Adaptive Protection with insider risk management. For more information, see Dynamically mitigate the risk of accidental or malicious deletes. You might need to opt in to this new capability:
    • If Adaptive Protection was turned on before this data lifecycle management preview release, you must manually enable the auto-labeling retention policy.
    • If you turn on Adaptive Protection after this data lifecycle management preview release, the auto-labeling retention policy is automatically turned on for you.

Information protection scanner

  • General availability (GA): A new scanner version from the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client is generally available and procedural information is updated to use the new PowerShell module. When you upgrade from the Azure Information Protection client, it's important to follow the upgrade instructions because service names and other components are renamed.

Insider risk management

Sensitivity labels

April 2024

The Microsoft Purview portal (in preview) is being gradually updated with solutions from the compliance portal. Where relevant, the documentation now includes configuration steps for both portals.

Audit

Communication compliance

Compliance Manager

Copilot for Security

Data catalog

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • Improvements to SharePoint and OneDrive retention: For these services, you can now delete a folder that's subject to retention, even if it contains files.

Data loss prevention

eDiscovery

Information protection scanner

  • In preview: A new scanner version from the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client, now in preview. When you upgrade from the Azure Information Protection client, it's important to follow the upgrade instructions because service names and other components are renamed.

Insider risk management

Microsoft Priva

Microsoft Purview portal

Sensitivity labels