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The practical side of Microsoft Purview.

Free tools, assessments, and plain-English guides to plan Microsoft Purview properly, and test every change before it reaches your tenant.

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Free, no sign-inEverything runs in your browserPlan and test before you deployBuilt by a working Purview practitioner

Know where you stand. Plan the change. Then deploy.

Getting Purview right takes planning. Getting it wrong means blocked users, exposed data, and compliance gaps. Here is the path, and all of it is free.

01

Find out where you stand

Five short assessments covering Purview readiness, Copilot and AI readiness, EU AI Act compliance, and where to begin. A personalised gap analysis in a few minutes, no sign-in.

Take an assessment
02

Plan it before you touch your tenant

Fifteen browser-based planners with what-if simulators for labels, DLP, retention, insider risk, and AI governance. Export a deployment plan to share with stakeholders.

Explore the tools
03

Learn how it really behaves

Short, practical articles on the gotchas and edge cases the docs gloss over. Five minutes each, written for production rather than the exam.

Read the articles

Things you cannot do in the portal

A faithful model of how Purview evaluates your data, down to the patterns, confidence values, and keyword lists. Everything runs in your browser, nothing leaves it.

Know Your Data

SIT X-Ray

See inside every built-in SIT: the real patterns, confidence values, and keyword lists. Paste the text from a DLP false positive and find out exactly why it matched.

Open the X-RayKnow Your Data

Custom SIT Builder

Design custom SITs and watch them match live as you type. Plain-English regex help, design warnings before the portal rejects you, and an exportable build spec.

Build a SITPrevent Data Loss

Inline Web DLP Planner

Stop sensitive data reaching ChatGPT and other unmanaged AI apps. Compare the three enforcement paths, test scenarios in a What If simulator, and estimate the cost.

Plan inline DLP
Licensing

What each licence actually includes

Side-by-side Microsoft 365 and Purview tiers, so you know what you are paying for.

Podcast

Purview in plain language

Short, practical episodes on data security and AI governance. No jargon.

Roadmap

What Microsoft is rolling out

A live feed of Microsoft 365 roadmap items filtered to Purview, updated automatically.