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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.

December 2024

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.

November 2024

Audit

  • Ignite 2024 update: New guidance for about how audit logs are generated for user interactions and admin activities related to Microsoft Copilot and AI applications.

Communication Compliance

Compliance Manager

  • In preview: Users can now customize Compliance Manager regulatory templates by adding controls and improvement actions in order to build custom assessments.
  • Updated: Compliance Manager has a Reports page, which displays a history of the recent activity impacting an organization's compliance score.
  • In preview: Organizations can assess their predeployment compliance (preview) before deploying any new Microsoft services.

Data Governance

Data lifecycle management and records management

  • Ignite 2024 - In preview: Retention policies support Teams AI-generated notes when you use the Teams chat location for AI-generated notes in chat, and OneDrive accounts for AI-generated notes in meetings. Retention labels are supported for AI-generated notes in meetings, but don't support cloud attachments.
  • Ignite 2024 update: In preview, you can create separate retention policies for Copilot interactions and Teams chats. Newly created policies use separate locations. You can also separate existing policies. Previously, messages from Teams and Microsoft Copilot were automatically included in the retention policy location.

Data Loss Prevention

Data Security Posture Management for AI

  • Ignite 2024 - General Availability (GA): Previously named Microsoft Purview AI Hub, Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) is now GA with added preview functionality and changes:
    • Data assessments (in preview) to identify and fix potential oversharing risks in your organization. Fixes include helping you to create a DLP policy to prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot from summarizing files with specific sensitivity labels, and specifying which SharePoint sites to be restricted from Microsoft 365 Copilot (SharePoint restricted content discoverability).
    • New recommendations and policies that include detecting risky AI usage using an Insider Risk Management policy.
    • Extending support for other generative AI apps, including Copilot Studio, ChatGPT - Microsoft Purview integration with ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API, and new support for Microsoft Teams AI-generated notes, currently in preview. You see these categorized on the Reports page and in activity explorer as Microsoft Copilot Experiences and Enterprise AI apps.
    • A version for E3 customers, to help turn on audit, see data related to Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, and other AI-related events in activity explorer.

Device onboarding

eDiscovery (preview)

  • Ignite 2024 update: New support and upgrades to the export flow in search and review sets, providing a unified export structure across premium and non-premium feature exports, faster export performance, detailed reporting, and flexible export options.
  • Ignite 2024 update: New support to identify web queries in Microsoft 365 Copilot usage.

Insider Risk Management

  • Ignite 2024 - In preview: New Risky AI usage policy template to help detect and enable risk scoring for user prompts and system responses across AI tools in your organization.

Security Copilot in Purview

Sensitivity labels

Trainable classifiers

October 2024

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

Data Governance

  • Glossary terms to CDE associations: Data stewards can now connect glossary terms to critical data elements and vice versa.

  • Updating abandoned domains: Data Governance Administrators listed under Settings->Unified Catalog->Role and permissions can now update owners for governance domains that have become uneditable due to previous owners leaving the organization.

  • Self-service analytics and insights for data governance metadata (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 in 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.

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

Data Governance

General availability (GA): The Microsoft Purview Data Governance experience with Unified 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.
  • Unified Catalog admin settings: The admin experience including roles, permissions, and self-service analytics is now part of the solution settings for Unified 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 Unified 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 Governance

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.