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Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Azure AI Search honors Purview labels and policies

Azure AI Search will now honor Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and enforce protection policies during indexing, ensuring that only authorized documents are searchable and returnable to applications, including agentic RAG workflows. Admins must validate label configurations work as intended with their search indexing pipelines.

Action required: Review and validate Purview sensitivity label configurations and Azure AI Search indexer policies to ensure labels are enforced correctly across search operations and RAG scenarios.

Key dates

2024 — preview (Feature currently in development; GA timeline not specified)

Microsoft's description

Azure AI Search now ingests Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and enforces corresponding protection policies through built-in indexers (SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, ADLS Gen2). This enables secure, policy-aligned search over enterprise data, enabling agentic RAG scenarios where only authorized documents are returned or sent to LLMs, preventing data oversharing and aligning with enterprise data protection standards.

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