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Last updated: 2026-07-27
Microsoft Purview is a set of data security, governance, and compliance solutions, not a single switch. This repository explains how to discover data, define ownership, classify and protect sensitive information, reduce oversharing, and retain evidence.
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Important
Start with What is Microsoft Purview?. Define an accountable owner, intended outcome, data boundary, and pilot evidence before enabling a production scan, label, or policy.
| I need to | Microsoft Purview capability | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Establish ownership and least-privilege administration | Governance and role-based access control (RBAC) | Governance and roles |
| Discover, organize, and govern enterprise data | Data Map and collections | Data map and collections |
| Connect a data store and scan metadata | Data source onboarding and scanning | Data sources and scanning |
| Classify, mark, encrypt, or control sensitive content | Sensitivity labels | Sensitivity labels |
| Detect or reduce unsafe sharing | Data loss prevention (DLP) | Data loss prevention |
| Preserve investigation and legal evidence | Audit and electronic discovery (eDiscovery) | Audit and eDiscovery |
| Plan a controlled rollout | Deployment checklist | Deployment checklist |
| Run Purview as a service | Operational model | Operational model |
- Inventory sensitive data, business processes, regulatory obligations, owners, and data locations.
- Confirm licensing, supported workloads, data residency, administrative roles, and logging requirements.
- Build a limited pilot with one source, classification, protection control, and documented success criteria.
- Use simulation or audit mode for data loss prevention policies; review matches, user impact, and exceptions.
- Expand only after accountable owners approve results, support procedures, rollback, and ongoing evidence collection.
Use the deployment checklist for rollout evidence and the operational model for the service-review cadence.
Note
Features, licensing, workloads, and regional availability can change. Confirm current support and pricing in Microsoft Learn before production deployment.
Refresh Date: 2026-04-07