Microsoft Purview
The latest Microsoft Purview coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Purview to Show Unscanned Files and Classification History, Helping Admins Prioritize Compliance
Microsoft is updating Purview Content Explorer with new summary metrics that promise to eliminate a longstanding blind spot for compliance administrators: the number of files that haven’t been...
New Purview Sensitivity Label Controls Let Admins Exclude Microsoft 365 Groups, Target Dynamic Groups
Microsoft is rolling out a significant update to how administrators assign sensitivity labels in Purview, with new controls that let them exclude entire Microsoft 365 groups and include dynamic...
Purview Endpoint DLP’s New JIT Audit Scoping Will Target Specific Users Starting 2026
Microsoft has placed a new data loss prevention capability on its public roadmap: Purview Endpoint DLP will soon support Just-in-Time (JIT) audit scoping with user-level inclusion and exclusion...
Preview: Purview Insider Risk Management Now Catches Data Leaks in Microsoft Fabric and Cloud Apps
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a preview that arms security teams with new weapons against data leaks in two rapidly expanding frontiers: Microsoft Fabric and cloud storage services. The update to...
Teams Recordings Gain Automatic Sensitivity Label Inheritance from Meetings
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that automatically applies the sensitivity label of a Teams meeting to all its associated recordings, transcripts, and Loop notes. The capability, part of...
Microsoft Purview’s New Sync Status Ends the Guessing Game for Sensitivity Labels
In April 2026, Microsoft rolled out a long-awaited update to Microsoft Purview: policy sync status for sensitivity label publishing policies. Now, when IT admins configure and publish sensitivity...
Hands-On Data Control: Microsoft Adds Manual Sensitivity Labels to Viva Engage Communities
Microsoft has started rolling out a preview that lets organizations apply Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels directly to Viva Engage communities. The feature, available now...
Microsoft Purview to Introduce Pre-Curated File Extension Picker for Endpoint DLP by September 2026
Microsoft has quietly added a new feature to its development roadmap for Microsoft Purview: a pre-curated file extension picker for Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Roadmap ID 562993,...
Microsoft Purview DLP to Group Alerts by User in GCC High and DoD: September 2026 Rollout
Microsoft has confirmed that a long-awaited feature for government cloud customers—the ability to consolidate Data Loss Prevention alerts around a single user, even when multiple policies are...
Microsoft Will Extend Endpoint DLP to Sensitive Files in Windows Temp and AppData by Sept 2026
Microsoft is closing a long-standing blind spot in its data loss prevention for Windows endpoints. According to a new entry on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (ID 562992), Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP...
Microsoft Purview On-Demand Scans Promise to Unearth Sensitive Dormant SharePoint Data
Microsoft is building a new capability within its Purview compliance platform that allows administrators to scan every existing file in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information—even if...
Government Tenants Get AI Data Guardrails: Purview to Detect Sensitive Content in AI Prompts by August 2026
Microsoft will bring priority-content filtering to its Risky AI usage policy template in Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management for U.S. government cloud environments starting in August 2026, the...