Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management - Ability to create cases without content in IRM

Introduction

Insider Risk Management is providing the ability to create a case without content. With this, we will introduce a new active case limit of 2000. This new functionality will allow customers to create more cases particularly when content download is unnecessary. If a case is created without content download, content download can be initiated anytime the case is active pending available content download limits. There is no change to the active content download limit of 100.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 554940.

When this will happen:

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late February 2026 and expect to complete by mid-March 2026.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC-High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2026 and expect to complete by late June 2026.

How this will affect your organization:

Who is affected:

Admins who manage Insider Risk Management cases and alerts in Microsoft Purview.

What will happen:

• You will be able to create Insider Risk Management cases with or without content download.
• A new active case limit of 2000 will be introduced.
• There is no change to the active content download limit (100).
• Workflow updates for creating or modifying a case will follow these steps:

1. Log into Insider Risk Management.
2. Open an active alert.
3. Select Confirm alert & create case.



4. Choose whether to create the case with or without content download enabled.



5. To turn on content download later, open an active case and navigate to Content Explorer.

What you need to do to prepare:

• There are no prerequisites to enable this feature.

Learn more:

• Microsoft Purview: Insider risk management
• Create a case for an alert | Microsoft Support

Compliance considerations:

No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.