check before: 2025-12-01
Product:
Purview, Purview Communication Compliance, Purview compliance portal
Platform:
Online, Web, World tenant
Status:
Launched
Change type:
New feature, Admin impact
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Details:
Summary:
Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations will gain AI analysis enhancements, including improved investigative context, vector search, content categorization, and a new natural language AI-powered search (preview). Public preview starts December 2025; general availability by March 2026. No admin action required before rollout.
Details:
[Introduction]
Microsoft Purview compliance portal's Data Security Investigations (DSI) now includes advanced AI analysis capabilities. These enhancements improve investigative context, vector search relevance, and content categorization to better identify risky material. A new AI-powered search function, Search with AI (preview), enables investigators to use natural language to locate specific files by searching through keywords, metadata, and embeddings.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 518228.
[When this will happen:]
Public Preview: Rolling out early December 2025; expected completion by early December 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): Rolling out early February 2026; expected completion by late March 2026.
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General Availability, Preview
Created:
2025-11-18
updated:
2025-11-18
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summary for non-techies**
Microsoft is enhancing its Purview compliance portal with new AI analysis capabilities in the Data Security Investigations feature, including improved investigative context, vector search, content categorization, and a natural language search function, all available by default.
Direct effects for Operations**
AI Analysis Capabilities Rollout
The introduction of AI analysis capabilities may lead to confusion among users if they are not prepared for the new features, potentially resulting in inefficient investigations or misinterpretation of search results.
- roles: Investigators, Admins
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/data-security-investigations, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/data-security-investigations-ai-analysis
Natural Language Search Feature
The new natural language search feature could overwhelm users unfamiliar with AI tools, leading to a decrease in productivity as they adapt to the new search methods without prior training or documentation updates.
- roles: Investigators, Admins
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/data-security-investigations, https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=518228
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