Published Oct 2, 2024
The Microsoft Purview compliance portal will soon include a notification banner alerting users to hidden content matches in compliance policies. Rollout updates have been made with Public Preview in mid-January 2025 and General Availability in early February 2025. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Updated December 18, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon for Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Communication Compliance: A notification banner designed to enhance transparency will alert users when keywords embedded in hidden content (such as hyperlinks or encoded strings) trigger a compliance policy match. With this rollout, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 417483.
When this will happen:
Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by late January 2025 (previously late December).
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 (previously early January) and expect to complete by mid-February 2025 (previously early mid-January).
How this will affect your organization:
Before this rollout, users and investigators are not notified if policy matches occur for hidden text.
After this rollout, users will be notified if any policy matches in a message are concealed and not readily discernible in the main content.
This feature is available by default.
What you need to do to prepare:
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation.
Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.