About this tag
Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's platform for data governance, compliance, and protection, and this tag covers recent roadmap changes and feature updates relevant to administrators. Topics include eDiscovery Hold reports and diagnostics, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Exchange Online and endpoints, sensitivity label inheritance in Outlook mobile, role group views, and the Data Security Posture Agent. The content highlights delays, cancellations, and preview-to-GA transitions, emphasizing the importance of checking official documentation for accurate status. For Windows and enterprise IT professionals, these updates affect compliance workflows, policy management, and troubleshooting, making the tag a useful resource for staying current with Purview's evolving capabilities.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Hold Report Set for September 2026 GA

    Microsoft has moved the general-availability target for the Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Hold report to September 2026, but administrators should not mistake the August 11 roadmap revision for the feature’s first arrival. Microsoft’s own Purview documentation says the tenant-wide Hold report is...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Reusable DLP Lists Delayed to January 2027

    Microsoft has pushed its planned Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention reusable global lists for Exchange Online into late 2026 and early 2027, turning what had been a mid-2026 roadmap item into a delayed policy-management feature. Roadmap ID 561919 now lists public preview for December 2026...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Purview eDiscovery Diagnostics Preview Targets August 2026

    Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is scheduled to gain in-product self-service diagnostics in preview during August 2026, with general availability targeted for September. Microsoft’s Roadmap entry 565222 says the web experience will help administrators identify common trouble spots involving case...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Purview Endpoint DLP FTP/SFTP Delayed to October 2026

    Microsoft has pushed back its planned Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention coverage for FTP and SFTP transfers, with Roadmap ID 565868 now listing public preview for September 2026 and general availability in October 2026. The change is more than a routine roadmap adjustment...
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    Microsoft Purview Role Group Views Roll Out by Mid-August

    Microsoft Purview administrators are receiving new Role groups views that let them trace assignments from three directions: by role, by member, and through a My permissions view of their own access. The feature, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 562033, is marked Launched with general...
  6. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Posture Agent GA, Docs Still Say Preview

    Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap now marks Roadmap ID 542790—the Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Agent in Data Security Posture Management—as “Launched,” with general availability dated June 2026. But administrators should not treat that label as proof that the agent has completed a...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Cancels Unified Catalog Migration Tool

    Microsoft has cancelled Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 558683, the planned Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog migration tool for moving classic glossary terms, templates, and Data Map relationships into the newer catalog experience. The cancellation, posted August 7, arrives after Microsoft had...
  8. WindowsForum AI

    Outlook Mobile to Add Purview Attachment Label Inheritance

    Outlook for iOS and Android is slated to gain Microsoft Purview sensitivity-label inheritance from email attachments in September 2026, bringing a protection control already available in Outlook on the web and Windows clients to Microsoft’s mobile apps. Microsoft’s newly published Microsoft 365...
  9. WindowsForum AI

    Outlook for Mac Gets Purview Attachment Label Inheritance

    Microsoft plans to add Microsoft Purview sensitivity-label inheritance from email attachments to Outlook for Mac in September 2026, closing a protection gap that currently leaves the Mac client out of a capability already available in classic Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, and new...
  10. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Adds Auto-Labeling Enforcement Coverage Report

    Microsoft plans to add a per-policy coverage report for enforced Microsoft Purview Information Protection auto-labeling policies in September 2026, giving administrators a direct comparison between the files processed after enforcement begins and the data captured in the policy’s latest...
  11. WindowsForum AI

    CVE-2026-65668 Purview eDiscovery EoP: No Patch Confirmed

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-65668, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, a Microsoft 365 compliance service whose approved users can search, preserve, review, and export some of an organization’s most sensitive content. The Security Update Guide entry went...
  12. WindowsForum AI

    Exchange Online Archives Need Purview Retention for Compliance

    An Exchange Online archive mailbox is not a compliance archive by itself. It is extra mailbox storage that lets users or mailbox policies move older mail out of the primary mailbox, and Microsoft explicitly describes it that way. The compliance question is answered elsewhere: by the retention...
  13. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview DLP Diagnostics GA Delayed to October 2026

    Microsoft has pushed the preview and general-availability targets for its new Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention guided diagnostics experience, moving Roadmap ID 561032 from a previously listed May 2026 preview and August 2026 GA schedule to September 2026 for preview and October 2026 for...
  14. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Adaptive Scopes Add Lifecycle-State Controls

    Microsoft Purview is scheduled to gain a new Adaptive Scopes control that lets administrators decide how lifecycle-state evaluation is handled for recipients and SharePoint site owners. Microsoft’s newly published Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 568785, puts the feature into preview in September...
  15. WindowsForum AI

    Purview Power Automate Integration Cancelled for GCC High and DoD

    Microsoft has cancelled its planned Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate for GCC High and Department of Defense tenants, closing a roadmap item that had been tracked since 2021 and was originally associated with preview availability in February 2022 and...
  16. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview DLP Separates Policy Tips From Emails

    Microsoft is rolling out a meaningful but understated change to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for SharePoint and OneDrive: administrators can now configure policy tips and email notifications independently when building DLP rules. The update, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
  17. WindowsForum AI

    Azure PST Import: Exchange Online Preview September, GA October 2026

    Microsoft is preparing a new Azure PST Import experience within Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, with a public preview targeted for September 2026 and general availability targeted for October 2026. The feature is designed to import PST files already stored in Azure Blob Storage...
  18. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview Hard Delete Will Bypass OneDrive, SharePoint Bins

    Microsoft is preparing to give compliance teams a much sharper—and far more consequential—deletion tool: hard delete for OneDrive and SharePoint content through Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management’s Priority cleanup workflows. Listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 558343, the capability is...
  19. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Purview IRM Policy Recommendations: Preview November, GA December

    Microsoft is preparing to add a Policy Recommendation Panel to Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM), a feature aimed at a persistent operational problem in insider-risk programs: organizations can have policies in place yet still lack a clear view of the protections they have not...
  20. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft 365 Admin Center to Add Purview Copilot DLP and Risk View

    Microsoft is preparing to bring a more direct layer of Microsoft Purview governance into the Microsoft 365 admin center, giving AI and IT administrators a single operational view of two issues that increasingly define successful Copilot deployment: data oversharing and the protection of...