Resources: Microsoft Purview

Online training

If you’re a High Schooler or Middle Schooler, you can register for the Licensing Microsoft Purview training which we ran in August 2025. It’s a 59-minute session covering:

Getting started: Purview overview

• A little bit of history
• Microsoft Purview today
• Microsoft Purview portal
• Innovation continues: AI and Pay-As-You-Go
• User licenses in the Product Terms
• Service description – who needs to be licensed?
• Policies
• Pay-As-You-Go billing enabling AI scenarios
• “Upgrading” to Pay-As-You-Go billing
• Microsoft Purview solution areas

Core

• Audit: what is it, and how is it licensed? Tenant level licensing. Pay-As-You-Go billing

Data Security

• Insider Risk Management: what is it, and how is it licensed? Who needs to be licensed? Pay-As-You-Go billing
• Information Protection: the stack, sensitivity labels. Information Protection at the tenant level. Pay-As-You-Go billing
• Data Security Posture Management for AI: what is it, prerequisites

Risk and Compliance

• eDiscovery: what is it and how is it licensed? Standard and Premium, and tenant level licensing. Pay-As-You-Go billing
• Communication Compliance: what is it and how is it licensed, and who needs to be licensed. Pay-As-You-Go billing

Resources

• Microsoft Purview Solutions trial
• Azure Pricing Calculator
• Purview in the Product Terms
• Detailed feature to SKU map from 2020
• Comparison documents
• Microsoft Security Licensing Summer Camp Credly badge

Exam

Demonstrate your knowledge of the fundamentals of Microsoft Purview licensing by taking our exam here. There are 10 questions, and you’ll need 70% to pass, when you’ll be able to download your certificate.

Online training

If you’re a High Schooler or Middle Schooler, you can register for the Microsoft Purview licensing training which we ran in June 2025. It’s a 60-minute session covering:

Getting started: Purview overview

• A little bit of history
• Microsoft Purview today
• Microsoft Purview portal
• Innovation continues: AI and PAYG
• Microsoft Purview solution areas

Getting started: Licensing options

• Available licenses from the Product Terms
• Detailed feature to SKU map
• Microsoft Purview Solutions trial
• Comparison documents and service description

Core

• Audit: what is it, and how is it licensed? Tenant level licensing

Data Security

• Insider Risk Management: what is it, and how is it licensed? Who needs to be licensed?
• Information Protection: the stack, sensitivity labels. Information Protection at the tenant level
• Data Loss Protection: what is it, and how is it licensed? DLP at the tenant level, and policies
• Data Security Posture Management: what is it, and how is it licensed?

Risk and Compliance

• eDiscovery: what is it and how is it licensed? Standard and Premium, and tenant level licensing
• Information Barriers: what is it and how is it licensed?
• Communication Compliance: what is it and how is it licensed, and who needs to be licensed
• Compliance Manager: what is it? Licensing Regulations and purchasing Premium Assessments
• Records Management: what is it and how is it licensed?

Data Governance

• Data Lifecycle Management: what is it, key terms, how is it licensed, and which users need a license?

Online training

If you are a High Schooler, or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions, then you can register for the Dear Louise: Purview Extra training which we ran in June 2025. It’s a 58-minute session covering:

Introduction

• Microsoft Purview today with continuing innovation
• Microsoft Purview billing models
• Pay-As-You-Go billing enabling AI scenarios
• Enabling Pay-As-You-Go billing (upgrading)

Purview capabilities: Pay-As-You-Go only

• Unified (Data) Catalog: what is it, and how it’s billed
• Data Security Investigations (DSI): what is it, how it’s billed, relationship with Security Copilot

Core

• Audit: why PAYG billing, relationship with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Data Security

• Information Protection: why PAYG billing
• Insider Risk Management: why PAYG billing

Risk and Compliance

• Communication Compliance: why PAYG billing
• eDiscovery: why PAYG billing

Data Governance

• Data Lifecycle Management: why PAYG billing

Data Security Posture Management for AI

• What is it, prerequisites

Security Copilot and Agents

• Purview and Security Copilot experiences: standalone and embedded
• Security Copilot Agents: standalone and embedded