Purview Data Classification is stuck at In-Progress for days

@Daniel Russell I hope you are doing well,

Purview scans sometimes hang when:

• The size of the data exceeds internal estimation limits
• There are nested or malformed file paths
• Service is under load or experiencing backend issues (which might not show as an error)

Try:

Splitting the scan into smaller, more focused jobs (e.g., scanning folders individually).

Temporarily disabling classification and just running a scan, to isolate the bottleneck.

• Setting scanLevel=File instead of File+Classification.

5. Restart Scan via PowerShell or CLI

If the UI retry fails:

# Azure CLI Example
az purview scan run --name myScanName --data-source-name myDataSource --resource-group myRG --account-name myPurviewAccount

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