In preview: The custom metadata (preview)

July 2025

Data Governance

• In preview: The custom metadata (preview) area in Unified Catalog centralizes the creation and management of user-defined attributes, which provide context to describe and organize data. Attibute types are the new business concept attributes (preview) and data asset attributes (formerly "managed attributes" in the classic governance experience).
• Update: You can customize the label for contatcs in data products.
• In preview: Data quality error record publishing to customers’ cloud storage is now available in all supported Azure regions. Data engineers, data quality stewards, and analysts can review and correct data, as well as monitor continuous improvements by creating dashboards with Unified Catalog metadata and Data quality error records for their data governance and data quality teams. This feature helps Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog users not only measure and monitor data quality, but also improve it by enabling them to correct data quality error records and handle rule exceptions.
• General availability (GA): Virtual network provisioning admin capability is now generally available. Microsoft Purview Data Governance Administrators can provision a Virtual Network (vNet) compute location in supported Azure regions by navigating to Settings > Unified Catalog > Virtual network.

Data Security Posture Management for AI

• In preview: Rolling out, a new Web searched filter in activity explorer that helps you locate web queries in prompts with the search query text itself displayed as part of the AI interaction event.
• Update: Previously, an administrator who was assigned to one or more administrative units could create policies for all users. This scenario is now prevented and only unrestricted administrators can create the one-click policies that apply to all users.
• Update: The recommendation Protect items with sensitivity labels from Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent processing now helps you create the DLP policy without leaving DSPM for AI. You're prompted to select one or more of your sensitivity labels for the one-click policy that's named DSPM for AI - Protect sensitive data from Copilot processing.

Sensitivity labels

• In preview: Gradually rolling out, a change to the sensitivity labeling scheme to replace parent labels with label groups. Although users won't see a difference in their apps, label groups support better organization and reduce the deployment complexity. Unlike parent labels, they can't be configured for label settings other than name, description, color, and priority. They also can't be published by themselves. To convert existing parent labels to label groups, you must manually migrate them.

Insider Risk Management

• In preview: New support for a Microsoft Security Copilot Agent for Insider Risk Management. The Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Triage Agent provides an agent-managed alert queue where the alerts about the highest risk activities are identified and prioritized on the Alert Triage Agent dashboard (preview). For more information, see Security Copilot Agents in Microsoft Purview Overview (preview).