General availability (GA): Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog metadata self-service analytics capability

December 2025
This month includes information about releases and updates that were announced and covered at Microsoft Ignite.

Data Governance

• General availability (GA): Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog metadata self-service analytics capability is now generally available.
• Updated: Multiregion configuration is available to store data quality error records locally where your data is located. Organizations can configure multiple location folders to store data quality error records in alignment with data residency compliance requirements.
• In preview: Get started with virtual network support for self-service analytics metadata storage, now in preview.

Insider Risk Management

• General availability (GA): Support for data risk graphs in Insider Risk Management. Data risk graph in Insider Risk Management uniquely visualizes correlations between impacted data, users, and their activities. It provides critical context to guide alert mitigation and next steps.
• General availability (GA): A Microsoft Security Copilot Agent for Insider Risk Management. The Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management provides an agent-managed alert queue where the alerts about the highest risk activities are identified and prioritized on the Triage Agent dashboard. For more information, see Security Copilot Agents in Microsoft Purview Overview (preview).
• In preview: The Triage Agent in Insider Risk Management supports feedback on incorrect alert categorizations.