RM569477 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – Default Protection Controls for Exchange Online in the event of classification failure

Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Summary

Default protection controls for Exchange Online is available in public preview. This release gives administrators fine-grained control to create DLP policies based on specific classification or text extraction failure types — such as timeout, throttling and other scan errors — rather than one blanket policy for all failure conditions.

Published

Sep 1, 2026

Status

In development

Release

General Availability

Platforms

Web

Service

Microsoft Purview

Tag

In development
General Availability
GCC
GCC High
DoD

Cloud

DoD
GCC
GCC High

Description

Default protection controls for Exchange Online is available in public preview. This release gives administrators fine-grained control to create DLP policies based on specific classification or text extraction failure types — such as timeout, throttling and other scan errors — rather than one blanket policy for all failure conditions.

GA date: September CY2026