Standalone data asset data quality scan is now generally available.
May 2026
Agent 365
- General availability (GA): Data security and compliance protections for Microsoft
Data Governance
- General availability (GA): Standalone data asset data quality scan is now generally available.
- General availability (GA): Incremental data quality scan is now generally available.
- General availability (GA): Configurable data quality thresholds for data quality rules and data assets are now generally available.
Data Loss Prevention
- Updated: Added the admin permissions (Directory Reader, Microsoft Edge administration, and Microsoft Intune administration) required to activate DLP policies for unmanaged cloud apps in Microsoft Edge for Business. For more information, see Learn about Data Loss Prevention for Cloud Apps in Edge for Business.
- Updated: Clarified Edge browser profile scope for cloud app DLP policies. Policies for unmanaged cloud apps on managed devices apply across all Edge profiles (work, personal, and InPrivate); policies for managed apps apply only in the Edge work profile. See Help prevent sharing via Microsoft Edge for Business to unmanaged AI apps from managed devices and Help prevent users from sharing sensitive info with cloud apps in Edge for Business.
- Changed: Removed DeepL and Zapier from the list of unmanaged AI apps supported by browser policies in Edge for Business.
Data Security Posture Management
- General availability (GA): The new version of Data Security Posture Management is now generally available. Partner solutions for non-Microsoft data sources remain in preview, as does the Data Security Posture Agent. This current version provides guided workflows for proactive risk management and streamlines data security operations so you can more confidently adopt AI across your digital estate.
- New: Support for administrative units, to bring parity with the classic versions of DSPM and DSPM for AI.
- New: To optimize resources, processing is paused for Microsoft 365 data when tenants are inactive for more than 60 days, and automatically resume when you return to the solution. For more information, see Data updates paused for inactive tenants.
- New: The "Responsible AI FAQ for Data Security Posture Management" is replaced with the more detailed Application card for Data Security Posture Management to better help you understand this solution's AI capabilities, intended uses, limitations, evaluations, safety components, and best practices.
Information protection scanner
- In preview: Administrators can now enable, disable, and configure cluster-level scanner features from PowerShell.
- In preview: Custom Reporting populates additional columns and tables in the scanner cluster database so administrators can build their own reports directly against scan results in Power BI or any SQL-based reporting tool, without stitching together per-scan CSV reports.
Sensitivity labels
- In preview: Rolling out, manual labeling support for MP4 files in SharePoint and OneDrive. For more information, see Video support (MP4 files.
- In preview: Rolling out, a new label policy setting for meetings, Apply meeting label to artifacts, automatically applies the meeting's sensitivity label to recordings and their transcripts (.mp4 files), and to meeting notes (.loop files).
- In preview: You can now see the sync status of your sensitivity label publishing policies on the Label policies page, giving you visibility into when label policy updates are fully synced across Microsoft 365.

