Update02/28/2026

Microsoft Purview Data Quality supports incremental data quality scans

Microsoft Purview
Microsoft

February 2026

Data Governance

- In preview: Microsoft Purview Data Quality supports incremental data quality scans by using time-based filtering. By using incremental scans, you can choose between full scans, incremental scans, or both when you run data quality rules on data assets.

- In preview: Data quality scans for standalone data assets enable organizations to measure and improve data quality immediately without associating a data asset to a data product, significantly speeding up governance adoption. By running scans on assets, organizations can decide whether to associate a data asset to a data product if the data asset is in poor quality.

General availability (GA): Azure SQL Managed Instance support (SQL MI) is now generally available. You can now measure, understand, and improve the quality of your data in your SQL MI. Both public network and private endpoint configurations are supported. To get started, create a connection similar to Azure SQL database with supported port number, and assess the quality of your data using the Microsoft Purview Data Quality scanner.

Developers

Microsoft Purview enables software development companies to integrate governance, protection, and compliance capabilities into their applications using SDKs and APIs. A new list of partner integrations is now available, with links to partner documentation. For more information, see Software Developer Partner Integrations.

Insider Risk Management

In preview: Microsoft Fabric indicators now include Lakehouse indicators.
In preview: A new quick policy template for detecting data theft from non-Microsoft 365 apps by users leaving your organization is now available.

Sensitivity labels

New: The client-side improvements for sensitivity labels that extend SharePoint permissions to downloaded documents that started to roll out to Windows version 2601+ in January for the Current Channel is complete, and now also available with the Monthly Enterprise Channel.