Data Governance: Usage monitoring (preview)

August 2025

Data Governance

• In preview: Usage monitoring (preview) in Unified Catalog gives Data Governance Administrators a view of governed assets and data governance processing unit (DGPU) consumption across different governance domains.

Sensitivity labels

• General availability (GA): Now rolling out in general availability, support for files in SharePoint or OneDrive that are labeled with user-defined permissions. Support now includes search, data loss prevention, and eDiscovery support for newly uploaded and edited files.
• In preview: Rolling out, support for cross-cloud access to encrypted documents with Microsoft Entra configuration. As a result, users who are part of an organization in another cloud environment can open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that are encrypted by your organization. For example, these users might be in Microsoft Azure Government, or Microsoft Azure China (operated by 21Vianet).