check before: 2025-06-30
Product:
Purview, Purview Communication Compliance, Purview compliance portal, Purview Information Protection, Purview Insider Risk Management
Platform:
Online, US Instances, Web, World tenant
Status:
Launched
Change type:
Admin impact, New feature, Updated message, User impact
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Summary:
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will enhance user scoping in policies, allowing admins to select users, groups, and adaptive scopes for inclusion or exclusion. Rollout begins late June 2025 worldwide and October 2025 for government clouds, with no admin action needed before deployment.
Details:
Updated: We have updated the timeline for gov clouds. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management will roll out enhancements to user scoping features in policies,
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412942.
[When this will happen:]
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.
General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early October 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2026 (previously early November 2025).
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General Availability
Created:
2025-05-17
updated:
2025-10-27
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summary for non-techies**
Microsoft is enhancing its Purview Insider Risk Management tool to allow easier management of who is included or excluded from risk management policies, with new features rolling out in June 2025 for most users and October 2025 for government cloud users, automatically updating without requiring administrator action.
Direct effects for Operations**
User Scoping Changes
The automatic rollout of enhanced user scoping features may lead to unintended exclusions or inclusions of users in Insider Risk Management policies, potentially increasing the risk of insider threats going undetected.
- roles: Insider Risk Management Admins, Compliance Officers
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/insider-risk-management-configure#step-6-required-create-an-insider-risk-management-policy, https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412942
User Awareness and Documentation
Without prior notification, users may be unaware of changes to their monitoring status, leading to confusion and potential non-compliance with internal policies.
- roles: End Users, Compliance Officers
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/insider-risk-management-configure#step-6-required-create-an-insider-risk-management-policy, https://purview.microsoft.com/informationprotection/purviewmipoverview
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change history
| Date | Property | old | new |
| 2025-10-27 | MC MessageTagNames | New feature, User impact, Admin impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact, Admin impact |
| 2025-10-27 | MC Summary | Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will enhance user scoping features in policies, rolling out globally from late June to early July 2025, and for GCC, GCC High, and DoD from early October to early November 2025. Admins can select users, groups, and adaptive scopes for policies. No action is required before the rollout. | Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will enhance user scoping in policies, allowing admins to select users, groups, and adaptive scopes for inclusion or exclusion. Rollout begins late June 2025 worldwide and October 2025 for government clouds, with no admin action needed before deployment. |
| 2025-10-27 | MC Last Updated | 05/17/2025 00:23:10 | 2025-10-27T18:26:10Z |
| 2025-10-27 | MC Messages | Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management will roll out enhancements to user scoping features in policies,
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412942. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025. General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early October 2025 and expect to complete by early November 2025. | Updated: We have updated the timeline for gov clouds. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management will roll out enhancements to user scoping features in policies, This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412942. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025. General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early October 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2026 (previously early November 2025). |
| 2025-10-27 | MC Title | Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Updated user scoping features in policies | (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Updated user scoping features in policies |
| 2025-10-27 | MC End Time | 12/26/2025 09:00:00 | 2026-02-27T09:00:00Z |
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