Updated: Changes in Compliance Manager settings

October 2024
AI Hub

• UI changes to navigation: Although there's no change to functionality, some AI hub pages and navigation have changed. For example, the original Analytics page is replaced by Overview and Recommendations pages, and the one-click policies have moved from the Policies page to individual recommendation cards. If you need help navigating the AI hub, see How to use the AI hub.
• Event name change: The event name of "Classification stamped" in activity explorer is changed to Sensitive info types detected.

Compliance Manager

• Updated: Changes in Compliance Manager settings for automated testing of improvement actions and user access to assessments are now reflected in the audit log. Relevant schemas have also been added to Office 365 Management Activity API schema.

Data Governance

• Glossary terms to CDE associations: Data stewards can now connect glossary terms to critical data elements and vice versa.
• Updating abandoned domains: Data Governance Administrators listed under Settings->Data Catalog->Role and permissions can now update owners for governance domains that have become uneditable due to previous owners leaving the organization.

Self-service analytics and insights for data governance metadata (preview)

This feature empowers data analysts and data stewards to analyze and gain insights from Microsoft Purview Data Governance metadata in Fabric OneLake. Customers will have full flexibility in computing and tooling to leverage insights from Purview Data Governance metadata to manage and enhance their data estate health. They can link data governance metadata with other data sources to create leadership reports and generate insights that support fact-based decision-making and foster a culture of data governance across the organization.
ADLSg2 support is currently in gated preview. Please contact your Microsoft Purview account team to have your tenant allowlisted to access Purview Data Governance metadata for your ADLSg2 storage. You need to provide the following information for allow listing: Tenant ID, Organization name, Purview Account name, Purview Account ID, Azure Region, and Azure Subscription ID. Learn more.

• Azure Databricks view support in preview: Azure Databricks users will be able to profile and run data quality scans for data in Azure Databricks views in addition to Azure Databricks tables. Learn more.
• Native Synapse connector for Serverless and Synapse Data Warehouse with managed vNet support is available in gated preview for both tables and views. Customers will be able to profile and run data quality scans on their data in Synapse behind the private endpoint. You need to provide following information for allow listing: Tenant ID, Organization name, Purview Account name, Purview Account ID, Azure Region, and Azure Subscription ID. Learn more.

Purview Deployment Models

• New model: Microsoft Purview deployment models are a new content set authored by the product engineering team and are based on real-world customer experiences. They are intended to streamline and accelerate your deployment process for specific business scenarios. The first one, Secure by default with Microsoft Purview and protect against oversharing focuses on:
• Implementing a secure-by-default configuration using sensitivity labeling
• Using label publishing defaults and auto-labeling in the Office client.
• Using contextual default in SharePoint sites to increase deployment velocity.

Sensitive information types

• New: Indonesia passport number
• New: Ecuador unique identification number

Sensitivity labels

• Loop support: New article that lists the supported apps and scenarios for using sensitivity labels with Loop components, pages, and workspaces, Use sensitivity labels with Microsoft Loop.
• Change for label scopes: The Items scope is renamed Files & other data assets. This renamed scope now includes items that were previously in the removed Schematized data assets scope and newly includes items for Microsoft Fabric.
• In preview: Sensitivity labels that apply access control to encrypt items now support protection policies for Microsoft Fabric. For more information, see Protection policies in Microsoft Fabric.
• In preview: Now rolling out, a naming change to the encryption permissions levels that you see in the Microsoft Purview portal and Microsoft Purview compliance portal, and that users see when a sensitivity label prompts them for permissions in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The actual usage rights included in these permission levels haven't changed. Accompanying this change is a new dialog box for users, which displays the permission levels and additional options.
• Reviewer is renamed Restricted Editor
• Co-author is renamed Editor
• Co-owner is renamed Owner
• Improvements to default labels: Rolling out, the default sensitivity labels now include the Meetings scope if the tenant has licenses to manually apply a label for scheduled meetings. Additionally:
• The accompanying sensitivity label policy includes a default Teams meeting label.
• If the tenant has licenses to manually apply the label to Teams meetings, some of the sensitivity labels also have settings configured to protect these meetings.
• Improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot in Outlook (Classic) for Windows now supports encrypted items for version 2408 in Monthly Enterprise Channel.