Compliance Chapter

The Compliance roadmap provides information about Microsoft 365 regulatory- and legal-compliance-related services, including information about each service, and major changes expected to be made to these services.

As the repository for many, if not most, organizational documents, ranging from e-mails and Teams conversations to Word and Excel documents, Microsoft 365 can be subject to a wide range of compliance requirements. 

Services described in this chapter, under the Purview brand, include:

• Purview Information Protection & Governance
• Purview eDiscovery & Audit
• Purview Insider Risk Management.

Purview Overview

Purview provides several compliance assessment services that enable administrators to scan content held in Microsoft 365 and determine the degree to which it complies with relevant regulations (called assessments). They include the following:

Information Protection and Governance, a set of services supporting data classification, data retention and data loss prevention.