Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online)

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Microsoft Purview, Exchange
Type: Availability
Announcement date: 2026-05-11
Effective date: Date not published
Impact: Affected

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Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web

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Who is affected: The audience described by the Microsoft update is represented by: Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Avail

Why it matters: The change matters because the official source describes: Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Avail

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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - Granular classification error controls (Exchange online) Granular Protections 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: August CY2026 Preview date: July CY2026 Launched General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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