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Labels, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, audit, and records management. 24 guides in this topic.
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- Customer Key for Microsoft 365Reviewed 2026-08-30How Customer Key lets you bring your own encryption keys for Microsoft 365 service encryption — and when to use it.
- Customer Lockbox deep diveHow Customer Lockbox controls Microsoft engineer access to your tenant data — and when it actually triggers.
- How to create a DLP policy in Microsoft PurviewHow-toHow to create a DLP policy in Microsoft Purview for card and personal data: locations, sensitive info types, rules and actions, simulation mode, enforcement.
- How to create a retention policy in Microsoft PurviewHow-toHow to create a retention policy in Microsoft Purview: static or adaptive scope, locations, retain-then-delete settings, and rolling it out without surprises.
- How to publish sensitivity labels in Microsoft PurviewHow-toHow to publish sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview: create the label set, configure encryption and marking, publish a label policy, set defaults, pilot.
- How to search the audit log in Microsoft PurviewHow-toHow to search the Microsoft 365 unified audit log in Purview: check it's on, search by activity, user, and date, export, and Search-UnifiedAuditLog at scale.
- Microsoft 365 audit log query patternsPractical patterns for finding what you need in the unified audit log — investigations, compliance, and routine checks.
- Microsoft Priva privacy managementMicrosoft Priva is the data-privacy management product in Microsoft 365 — risk management and subject rights requests.
- Microsoft Purview audit retentionHow long Microsoft 365 retains audit logs by default, what Audit (Premium) adds, and how to think about retention.
- Microsoft Purview Compliance ManagerCompliance Manager scores your tenant against compliance frameworks and tracks improvements over time.
- Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention — a deep diveReviewed 2026-09-06DLP policies detect and prevent sensitive data from leaving Microsoft 365. Here's the architecture and how to roll them out.
- Microsoft Purview Data MapReviewed 2026-09-04The Data Map is the data governance side of Purview — discovering, classifying, and cataloguing data across the enterprise.
- Microsoft Purview records managementRecords management is retention with teeth — declaring content as a record locks it for legal/regulatory compliance.
- Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels — a deep diveReviewed 2026-09-06How Purview sensitivity labels classify and protect content, how to design a taxonomy that survives contact with users, and the rollout order that works.
- Microsoft Service Trust Portal and compliance documentationWhere to find Microsoft's compliance certifications, audit reports, and data-handling commitments.
- Purview auto-labelling policiesHow auto-labelling applies sensitivity and retention labels automatically based on content match — and the operational realities.
- Purview Communication ComplianceReviewed 2026-09-05Communication Compliance reviews emails, Teams chats, and Viva Engage messages against policy. Here's the model.
- Purview eDiscovery — standard vs premiumHow Purview eDiscovery finds, preserves, and exports content for legal cases — and what premium adds.
- Purview Information BarriersInformation Barriers prevent specific groups of users from communicating or collaborating — for regulatory, ethical, or legal reasons.
- Purview Insider Risk ManagementInsider Risk Management detects risky internal behaviour — data theft, IP leakage, policy violations — with built-in privacy controls.
- Purview retention policies explainedHow Microsoft Purview retention policies keep and delete content across Microsoft 365 — the model and the gotchas.
- Purview vs NetskopeComparisonMicrosoft Purview vs Netskope for data protection: native labelling and DLP inside Microsoft 365 against SSE-based DLP across every cloud app and the web.
- Purview vs VaronisComparisonMicrosoft Purview vs Varonis: Purview's native labels and DLP against Varonis's permissions analytics, automated remediation, and data-access detection.
- 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.
Frequently asked
- What is Microsoft Purview?
- Purview is the umbrella brand for Microsoft's data governance, protection, risk, and compliance tools — sensitivity labels, DLP, records management, insider risk, eDiscovery, and audit — used from a single admin portal.
- Do sensitivity labels require Microsoft 365 E5?
- The manual labels themselves are included in Microsoft 365 E3, F3, Business Premium, and A3. Automatic labelling, service-side auto-application, and container labelling with additional Purview capabilities generally require Microsoft 365 E5 or the Purview add-ons.
- Is DLP a replacement for insider risk management?
- No. DLP blocks a specific action against a defined policy in real time. IRM detects patterns of risky behaviour over time for review. Most mature programmes use both, targeting different failure modes.
- Do I need records management or just retention?
- Retention policies and labels are usually enough for organisations with light statutory obligations. Records management (record labels, regulatory records, disposition review) adds operational overhead and is aimed at regulated industries with statutory record-keeping.
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