Skip to main content
🦉
Message CenterMicrosoft 365 Updates
HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio
🦉
M365 Message Centerby Cengiz YILMAZ

Track the latest updates, features, and announcements for Microsoft 365 services. Comprehensive archive of service updates and important changes.

Quick Links

HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio

Connect

© 2026 M365 Message Center. Created with ❤️ by Cengiz YILMAZ

Data sourced from Microsoft 365 Message Center • Not affiliated with Microsoft

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. MC799274

Microsoft Purview portal: Enhanced global Search

Informational

Message ID

MC799274
View in Admin Center

Roadmap ID

396570,396571
View in Roadmap

Services

Microsoft Purview

Affected Platforms

Web

Summary

The Microsoft Purview portal will soon introduce an enhanced global Search feature, allowing users to search for organizational profiles, including names, email addresses, role groups, and admin units. This update, associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 396570 and 396571, will start rolling out in mid-July 2024 and is expected to complete by early October 2024. No admin action is required for this automatic rollout.

Details

Updated July 23, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to the new Microsoft Purview portal: An enhanced global Search feature will enable you to search for users in your organization and access their profiles. You will find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you will be able to view assigned role groups and admin units for the searched users. The global Search also allows you to search for navigational results, data, and learning resources.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396570 and Roadmap ID 396571.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by early August 2024.

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early September 2024 (previously early August) and expect to complete by early October 2024 (previously early September).

How this will affect your organization:

Before this rollout, the Search feature displays navigation, data, and resources results in the new Purview portal.

After this rollout, the Search feature in the new Purview portal includes all existing functionality and also displays user profile results:

admin controls

Search is on by default and accessible to all Purview portal users.

What you need to do to prepare:

Learn more in the Global Search section of Learn about the Microsoft Purview portal (preview) | Microsoft Learn

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Timeline

📅
Published
Jun 6, 2024
Message published to Message Center
✏️
Updated
Jul 23, 2024
Message content updated
🏁
End Date
Dec 31, 2024
Message timeline ends

Tags

#Updated message#New feature#Admin impact

Category

📖Stay Informed

Related Messages

Similar updates

MC804767

Purview compliance portal | eDiscovery: Compliance boundary cmdlet tool to manage compliance boundary property

Jun 24, 2024
MC803011

Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Adaptive Protection in GCC, GCCH, DoD

Jun 18, 2024
MC801975

Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Enhancements to the device onboarding page

Jun 14, 2024
MC800494

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Save filters for Microsoft 365 Activity Explorer

Jun 10, 2024
MC808165

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery | Modernized eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview portal

Jul 3, 2024