Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot
Type: Availability
Announcement date: 2026-07-17
Effective date: Date not published
Impact: Affected

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We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026 In development 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: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Micros

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Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026 In development General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026 In development General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Product Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026 In development General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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Microsoft Purview: Information Protection - Auto-labeling scale increase for SharePoint and OneDrive We are increasing the maximum auto-labeling capacity for SharePoint and OneDrive from 100,000 up to 500,000 files per tenant per day. This helps organizations label and protect more of their data at rest, faster, closing labeling gaps across existing content. With sensitivity labels and protection settings applied to more files sooner, organizations can better prepare their data estate for Microsoft 365 Copilot with greater confidence. GA date: October CY2026 Preview date: September CY2026 In development General Availability Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Microsoft Purview Web
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