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Purview eDiscovery — standard vs premium

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Purview eDiscovery — standard vs premium

How Purview eDiscovery finds, preserves, and exports content for legal cases — and what premium adds.

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What is the difference between eDiscovery Standard and Premium?

Standard: cases, holds on mailboxes and sites, searches, and export of results. Premium: custodian management, legal hold notifications, collection with review sets, processing (OCR, threading, near-duplicates), tagging…

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Which licence do I need for eDiscovery Premium?

Microsoft 365 E5, E5 Compliance, or the eDiscovery and Audit add-on. Custodians must be licensed; the reviewers need access to the Purview portal roles.

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Has Microsoft replaced Content Search?

The classic Content Search and Core/Advanced eDiscovery tools were unified into the new Purview eDiscovery experience during 2025, with Standard and Premium as feature tiers within it. Old cases were migrated; the cmdle…

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One or two matters a year, mostly a single custodian

Recommendation: Standard. Practise the search-hold-export loop on a training case first.

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Regulated industry with steady request volume

Recommendation: Premium. Custodian management and hold notifications are the difference between "we responded" and "we can prove we responded."

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Large litigation with millions of items and outside counsel

Recommendation: Premium plus Cloud Attached — process in Purview, export the relevant subset to Relativity or your review platform.

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You already run Relativity or a similar review tool tenant-wide

Recommendation: Cloud Attached eDiscovery. Do not duplicate review UX in Purview when your reviewers already live in the third-party tool.

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