Microsoft Purview: Paid public preview of Inline Protection of Sensitive Text transmitted in Edge for Business

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 18, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Starting October 31, 2025, Microsoft Purview’s inline protection of sensitive text in Edge for Business will require a paid public preview with pay-as-you-go billing via the In Transit Protection meter. Organizations must link an Azure subscription or lose this protection for unmanaged cloud apps.

Starting October 31, 2025, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will transition the inline protection of sensitive text in Microsoft Edge for Business to a paid public preview as a pay-as-you-go capability using the In Transit Protection meter. This capability helps organizations detect and prevent data exfiltration to unsanctioned Generative AI apps in the browser such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek. 

This message is associated with Roadmap ID 486368.

When this will happen:

Global rollout will begin in late October 2025 and is expected to complete by early November 2025.

How this affects your organization:

Who is affected:

Organizations using Microsoft Purview Collection and DLP Policies to monitor and protect sensitive text shared via Microsoft Edge for Business to unmanaged cloud apps.

What will happen:

• Inline protection of sensitive text in Edge for Business will move to paid public preview using the In Transit Protection meter.
• Impacted policies:
  
  • Microsoft Purview Collection Policies
  • Microsoft Purview DLP Policies

• Impacted locations:
  
  • Unmanaged cloud apps collection and protection in the Edge browser
  • Currently includes text upload activities; additional browser-based activities may be added in future updates.

• To continue using this capability, organizations must link an Azure subscription for billing.
• If billing is not configured by October 31, 2025, inline protection for unmanaged apps in Edge will stop working.

What you can do to prepare:

• Set up billing in Azure DevOps: Manage billing for your organization

• Link your Azure subscription to Microsoft Purview: Enable Microsoft Purview pay-as-you-go features via subscription
• Inform your Data Loss Prevention and Finance administrators of this change.
• Use Purview Activity Explorer to estimate usage:
  • Filter by enforcement plane: browser to review relevant activities.
  • Use the Azure Pricing Calculator to estimate costs under the In Transit Protection meter.
  • Review Microsoft Purview pricing.

Learn more:

• Purview DLP Browser Policy Documentation
• Collection Policies Reference
• Service Description for Microsoft Purview  

For questions or feedback, please contact your Microsoft account representative or support team. 

Compliance considerations:

Compliance Area	Explanation
Alters how existing customer data is processed	Purview protections for sensitive text shared via Edge is now metered and billed, requiring linkage to Azure subscription.
Modifies DLP enforcement	Inline collection and protection for sensitive text sharing to unmanaged apps will stop unless billing is configured.
Includes admin control	Admins must configure billing and policies.

Message ID: MC1154787