Enhancements to Microsoft Purview policies for Arc-enabled SQL Server

A recent change in Microsoft Purview extends and makes it easier to create data policies for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Servers. With this change:

• Policies on Linux Arc-SQL are now supported. Prior to this, only policies on Windows Arc-SQL were supported.
• Microsoft Purview seamlessly adapts to updates made to the app registration used to enable Azure AD authentication for Arc-SQL.
• It is now simpler to register an Arc-SQL data source in Microsoft Purview and then enable policies, given that capturing the Application Id of the Arc-SQL app registration is not needed anymore.
• Policies on whole resource groups and subscriptions are now enforced on Arc-SQL data sources without the need to individually and explicitly register them in Microsoft Purview.

This is the simplified registration experience for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server in Microsoft Purview

Follow these documents to configure policies for Arc-enabled SQL server in Purview:

• Data owner policies for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server
• DevOps policies for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server