🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 577187: Read-Only Device Onboarding Access Is Coming
Microsoft Purview is continuing to improve how organisations delegate administrative responsibilities without compromising security. Roadmap ID 577187 introduces a new View-Only Device Management role for the device onboarding experience in Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (Endpoint DLP). For organisations working towards least-privilege administration, this is a small but meaningful change. The principle is simple:…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 575287: Delegating Copilot DLP Without Giving Away the Keys
Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention | Administrative Units | AI Governance As organisations introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork, protecting sensitive information is only part of the challenge. Another question quickly follows: How do you let regional or departmental teams manage their own DLP policies without giving them control over the…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 575285: Extending Network DLP Beyond Known Cloud Apps
Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention | Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access How do you protect sensitive information when users upload it to a website your organisation hasn’t explicitly identified or sanctioned? It’s a challenge for information security teams. Organisations can build detailed Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for known cloud applications, but users can…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 568217: Sensitivity Labels Are Coming to Entra Security Groups
Microsoft Purview is extending sensitivity labels to Microsoft Entra cloud security groups. Here’s why that matters for identity, access management and information governance. Sensitivity labels are an important part of Microsoft Purview Information Protection. They help organisations classify information and, when configured for supported workloads, apply protection and governance settings. But what happens when we…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Is Retiring DSPM Classic – Here’s What You Need to Do
If your organisation is still using the classic Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management experiences, there is a change coming that you should put on the radar now. Microsoft Message Center update MC1481315 confirms that Microsoft is retiring: The retirement begins 30 November 2026, with the classic experiences expected to be fully retired by 31…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 571157: Copilot Readiness Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
Microsoft is bringing new Copilot readiness and Data Explorer experiences into Purview DSPM, and this could change how we think about AI readiness. If you’ve been following Microsoft Purview over the last couple of years, you’ll probably have noticed something. The conversation has changed. We used to ask: “Have we classified our data?” Then: “Have…
🔥 Your AI Agent Isn’t Breaking the Rules, It’s Following Them!
👉 Why AI governance is becoming less about what an agent can access – and more about what it can do with what it’s allowed to access Here’s an uncomfortable thought. Your AI agent might not be doing anything wrong. It might be following every permission you’ve given it, it might be operating exactly as…
🚨 Microsoft Purview JIT Audit Is Getting More Granular – And That Matters
There is a relatively small Microsoft Purview change coming that could have a bigger operational impact than its roadmap description suggests. Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention is gaining the ability to scope Just-in-Time Audit by user or group. The change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 562991 and Message Center announcement MC1387575. Microsoft…
Accessibility Isn’t a Feature – It’s Part of Quality
We often talk about accessibility as though it is something we need to add for a particular group of people. I think we should look at it differently. Accessibility is about removing unnecessary barriers so people can participate independently. That distinction matters. An estimated 1.3 billion people – around 1 in 6 globally – experience…
🚨 Microsoft Purview: Helping You Make Better Retention Decisions
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 562343 Data retention sounds simple. Keep what you need.Delete what you don’t.Retain information for as long as regulations, policies and the business require. In reality, it’s rarely that straightforward. Most organisations have enormous amounts of information sitting across SharePoint and OneDrive. Some of it is sensitive. Some of it is business-critical.…
🚨 Microsoft Purview DLP Comes to Microsoft Cowork: One Policy, More Protection
Microsoft Roadmap ID: 570845 AI is rapidly becoming part of the way people work — but as organisations introduce more AI experiences, the security challenge becomes increasingly important: How do you protect sensitive information consistently across all of them? Microsoft is addressing part of that challenge with Roadmap ID 570845, which brings Microsoft Purview Data…
🚨 You’ve Deployed Endpoint DLP – But Is It Actually Ready to Protect Your Devices?
There is a question that doesn’t get asked often enough when organisations deploy Data Loss Prevention: “We’ve created the DLP policy. But do we know whether our devices are actually ready to enforce it?” It’s an important distinction. Creating a Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP policy is relatively straightforward. Making sure that the devices across your…
🚨 Microsoft Defender XDR: DLP Alerts Are Becoming Behaviours by Default
Microsoft 365 Message Center: MC1465771Last modified: 1 September 2026 Microsoft is making an interesting change to the way Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) signals are handled inside Microsoft Defender XDR. From 12 October 2026, Microsoft Defender XDR will, by default, treat Microsoft Purview DLP alerts as behaviours rather than standard alerts. At first glance,…
🚨 Microsoft Power Platform is getting an interesting new security capability
🚨 Microsoft Power Platform gets smarter record-level security with column-based filtering There are plenty of organisations where record ownership simply doesn’t reflect how the business actually works. Think about a large dataset containing thousands of records. Perhaps each record has a Region, Department, Business Unit or another attribute that determines who should be able to…
🚨 Microsoft Purview Roadmap 549288: Making SharePoint DLP Smarter with Adaptive Scopes
Microsoft Purview continues to evolve from a collection of individual compliance controls into a much more dynamic governance platform. One particularly useful development is Roadmap ID 549288: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – Adaptive Scopes for DLP for SharePoint. And while the headline might sound like another technical DLP feature, the real benefit is much…
🚨 What if we stopped retaining files simply because nobody has deleted them?
Microsoft Purview is bringing “last accessed” retention to SharePoint and OneDrive One of the biggest challenges in Microsoft 365 isn’t necessarily creating information. It’s getting rid of information we no longer need. Over the years, organisations accumulate enormous amounts of content in SharePoint and OneDrive: And often, nobody knows whether any of it is still…
🚨 Microsoft Purview is coming for the data you’ve already forgotten about
Your biggest data protection problem might already be sitting in SharePoint When organisations talk about information protection, the conversation often focuses on what happens from now on. New documents get created. New files are uploaded. Users apply sensitivity labels. Policies are configured. DLP is enabled. Everything looks nicely governed. But there is a problem. ❓…
🚨 Microsoft Purview gets another layer of protection for Copilot web searches
What happens when Copilot needs to search the web? Microsoft 365 Copilot has become an increasingly powerful way for users to find information, summarise content and get answers without having to manually search across multiple sources. But there is an important question for organisations: What happens when the information being used by Copilot contains sensitive…
🚨 Power Platform Cost Controls: Microsoft Introduces Tenant Credit Pool Governance
Microsoft 365 Message Center ID: MC1458282General Availability: 26 August 2026 If your organisation is using Power Platform, Copilot Studio or AI-powered workloads, keeping control of capacity and consumption is becoming increasingly important. Microsoft is introducing a new Cost controls – Draw from tenant credit pool rule in the Power Platform admin center, giving administrators more…
🚨 Bringing Anthropic Claude Enterprise into Microsoft Purview: A Practical Deployment Guide
As organisations accelerate their adoption of generative AI, governance teams face a familiar challenge: how do you maintain visibility, compliance and security when business users are interacting with AI platforms outside of Microsoft 365? Microsoft Purview’s Anthropic Claude Enterprise connector helps address this challenge by bringing Claude activity and conversation data into the Microsoft Purview…
📦 Azure Roadmap update: Azure PST Import Is Coming to Exchange Online – and It Changes How Administrators Handle Archived Email
If you’ve ever had to deal with PST files, you’ll know they have a habit of appearing at exactly the wrong time. Old Outlook archives. Historical mailboxes. Former employees. Data sitting on file shares or someone’s laptop. And eventually someone asks the inevitable question: “Can we get all of this email back into Microsoft 365?”…
🚨 Shadow AI: The AI Your Organisation Doesn’t Know It’s Using
“Are our employees using AI?” If your immediate answer is “Not really” or “We don’t think so”, you might want to keep reading. Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: AI adoption is moving much faster than most organisations can govern it. Employees are already using AI to write emails, summarise meetings, analyse spreadsheets, create presentations, write…
🔍 Troubleshooting Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Just Got Easier
If you’ve ever spent far too long trying to work out why an eDiscovery case isn’t behaving as expected, a new Microsoft Purview update could make life considerably easier. Microsoft is introducing self-service diagnostics for eDiscovery, designed to help administrators identify and resolve some of the common configuration issues that can prevent eDiscovery from working…
🔐 Microsoft Purview DLP Gets Smarter with Automated Alert Management
Security teams spend valuable time reviewing alerts that often follow predictable patterns. Microsoft is helping reduce that burden with a new Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capability: rule-based alert tagging and auto-resolution. With this enhancement, organisations can define rules that automatically handle DLP alerts based on business needs: ✅ Automatically resolve low-priority alerts that…
🔐 🔐 Microsoft Purview is finally bringing sensitivity labels to SharePoint data at rest
I’m excited to see Microsoft Purview Information Protection introducing the ability to automatically apply a SharePoint document library’s default sensitivity label to existing files (data at rest). Today, default sensitivity labels help ensure that new and modified documents are classified correctly. However, many organisations still have thousands of legacy documents that remain unlabelled or inconsistently…
🚨 Important Update: Microsoft 365 Cost Management Enhancements for Copilot Credits and Usage-Based Billing
Microsoft is rolling out a series of updates to Cost Management in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, designed to improve reliability, predictability, and the overall administrator experience for usage-based AI services such as Cowork and Work IQ APIs. 📅 Rollout begins 22 July 2026 and is expected to complete by the end of July. Key…