Usage monitoring (preview)

August 2025
Data Governance

• In preview: Usage monitoring (preview) in Unified Catalog gives Data Governance Administrators a view of governed assets and data governance processing unit (DGPU) consumption across different governance domains.

Data Loss Prevention

• General availability (GA): Learn about the Microsoft 365 Copilot policy location released to GA.

Data Security Posture Management for AI
New: Rolling out, the following new roles are added to support view-only permissions for DSPM for AI:

• Purview Data Security AI Viewer: View-only permissions in DSPM for AI, for sensitivity labels, and sensitive information types only.
• Purview Data Security AI Content Viewer: View-only permissions specific to AI interactions (prompts and responses) in DSPM for AI.
• AI Administrator: Recently introduced role from Microsoft Entra to manage Microsoft Copilot. In Microsoft Purview, this role provides view-only permissions in DSPM for AI, for sensitivity labels, and sensitive information types—the equivalent of the Purview Data Security AI Viewer role, but also can be used with other management solutions.

Sensitivity labels

• General availability (GA): Now rolling out in general availability, support for files in SharePoint or OneDrive that are labeled with user-defined permissions. Support now includes search, data loss prevention, and eDiscovery support for newly uploaded and edited files.
• In preview: Rolling out, support for cross-cloud access to encrypted documents with Microsoft Entra configuration. As a result, users who are part of an organization in another cloud environment can open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that are encrypted by your organization. For example, these users might be in Microsoft Azure Government, or Microsoft Azure China (operated by 21Vianet).