Resources: Microsoft Purview

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

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.