compliance scanning

The compliance scanning tag covers Microsoft Purview’s planned on-demand capability for examining existing files at rest in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The feature is designed to help administrators identify sensitive information in dormant or historical content that may predate current labeling, data loss prevention, and governance practices. The discussed roadmap item targets general availability in December 2026 and includes Microsoft’s GCC, GCC High, and DoD cloud environments. This archive is relevant to Microsoft 365 administrators tracking historical-data classification, security gaps in stored content, and the broader role of Purview in bringing older files into modern compliance and information-protection processes.