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What is Microsoft Purview?

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What is Microsoft Purview?

What Microsoft Purview is: labels, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, insider risk, and the data-governance catalogue — how the two halves differ and where to start.

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What is Microsoft Purview?

One brand covering two products: the Microsoft 365 risk-and-compliance stack (sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, audit, insider risk) and a separate data-governance catalogue (Data Map, Data Catalog) for da…

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Is Purview included in Microsoft 365?

The risk-and-compliance half is, at a level that depends on your SKU — E3 and Business Premium get the manual basics, E5 or the E5 Compliance add-on gets automation and investigation. The data-governance half is license…

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What do I get with E5 Purview that E3 doesn't have?

Auto-labelling, endpoint and Teams DLP, adaptive retention scopes, Records Management, eDiscovery Premium, one-year audit retention, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Information Barriers, Customer Key,…

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Where should we start with Purview?

Verify audit is on, deploy a small sensitivity-label taxonomy (three to five labels, manual first), set baseline retention policies per workload, and run DLP in audit mode before enforcing anything. The most common fail…

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