Microsoft Purview: Information Protection-Azure AI Search honors Purview labels and policies
Azure AI Search will now respect Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and enforce their associated protection policies during indexing, ensuring only authorized documents are searchable and accessible to LLMs in RAG scenarios. Admins must configure indexers to enable this enforcement across SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, and ADLS Gen2 sources.
Key dates
- 2024 — preview (Feature currently in development; preview availability not yet announced)
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.