(Updated) Data Loss Prevention: Decoupling policy tips and email notifications for SharePoint and OneDrive

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summary: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention will decouple policy tips and user email notifications for SharePoint and OneDrive, allowing admins to configure either or both independently. Rollout begins late January 2026 (preview) and late March 2026 (general availability). Configuration uses the new -NotifyUserType parameter in PowerShell or the DLP portal. No admin action needed before rollout.

Updated September 26, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. 

 Coming soon to Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: When an admin wants to enable user email notifications, policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa. After this rollout, notifications and policy tips will be decoupled, and admins can configure the following rules to enable:

  1. Only a user email notification
  2. Only a policy tip
  3. A user email notification and a policy tip
  4. No policy tips or user email notifications

After this rollout, policy tips and user email notifications will align with the behavior currently available with Microsoft Exchange.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394279.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late January 2026 (previously late June) and expect to complete by late February 2026 (previously late July).

General Availability Worldwide: We will begin rolling out late March 2025 (previously late December) and expect to complete by late April 2026 (previously  late January). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

After rollout, to configure policy tips and user email notifications, you can use PowerShell or Purview | Data Loss Prevention.

In PowerShell

After rollout, use the new parameter called -NotifyUserType with the cmdlets New-DlpComplianceRule and Set-DlpComplianceRule.

Use New-DlpComplianceRule to create a new rule. Use Set-DlpComplianceRule to update an existing rule.

  • Default value: NotSet
  • To enable a policy tip: PolicyTip
  • To enable a user email notification: Email
  • To enable a user email notification and a policy tip: Email,PolicyTip

Example 1: New-DlpComplianceRule -Name "PT rule" -Policy "Policy Name" -ContentContainsSensitiveInformation @{Name="India Unique Identification (Aadhaar) Number"} -NotifyUserType PolicyTip -NotifyUser SiteAdmin,LastModifier,Owner

Example 2: Set-DlpComplianceRule -Identity "Rule Name" -NotifyUserType Email

To check that the value is set correctly, check the following and check the parameter value for NotifyUserType:

Get-DlpComplianceRule -Identity "Rule Name" | fl

In Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Before rollout:

admin settings

After rollout:

admin settings

DLP examples

Rule 1: Configured to only trigger a user email notification:

admin settings

Rule 2: Configured to only trigger a policy tip:

admin settings

Rule 3: Configured to trigger a user email notification and a policy tip:

admin settings

admin settings

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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