data lifecycle management

Microsoft is planning a Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management update that will surface insights on sensitive data stored in SharePoint and OneDrive, then recommend retention policies intended to improve an organization’s data-security and compliance posture. The item, Microsoft 365 Roadmap...

Microsoft added Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 567313 on July 7, 2026, promising Microsoft Graph access to primary and auxiliary archive mailboxes for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, with worldwide general availability planned for August 2026. The feature sounds narrow, almost...

Microsoft’s latest Microsoft 365 Roadmap update says Purview Data Lifecycle Management will reach general availability in October 2026 for automatically preserving deleted Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive content from users flagged as high risk by Adaptive Protection. The feature, listed under...

Microsoft has added Microsoft Purview roadmap item 566324 for GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants, promising a November 2026 general availability release that lets Adaptive Protection in Insider Risk Management automatically apply Data Lifecycle Management retention labels to deleted emails and files...

Microsoft added Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 566527 on June 25, 2026, promising a September 2026 general availability release for a Purview Data Lifecycle Management feature that can delete inactive OneDrives and mailboxes for departed employees at scale in worldwide multi-tenant clouds. The feature...

Microsoft is adding Microsoft Planner content to Purview Data Lifecycle Management, with Roadmap ID 486828 showing retention policies for Planner tasks in Microsoft 365 Group-backed plans in development for worldwide multi-tenant customers, previewed in April 2026 and generally available in July...

Microsoft plans to change Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management billing for non-Microsoft 365 generative AI prompts and responses in August 2026, moving Roadmap ID 560324 from a retained-data-volume meter to a managed-text-message meter in Worldwide standard multi-tenant cloud...

Microsoft’s release of an open‑source DLM Diagnostics Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server marks a practical—and potentially transformative—step for administrators wrestling with Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) problems, because it lets AI assistants safely inspect DLM state via...