Microsoft has recently unveiled the redesigned Microsoft Purview eDiscovery product experience, now available in public preview. This enhanced user interface aims to revolutionize data search, review, and export tasks within eDiscovery, focusing on efficiency and ease of use. The modern eDiscovery experience incorporates customer feedback and innovative features to save time and reduce costs in the eDiscovery process.
The new eDiscovery experience, accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, offers a unified platform for data governance, security, and compliance across your data estate. It provides a seamless and intuitive experience across different licensing tiers, simplifying workflows for creating cases, conducting searches, applying holds, and exporting data. The security controls have been strengthened to ensure authorized access to sensitive data, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring compliance with legal standards.
Efficient data source management is crucial for litigation and investigations. The improved data source picking capability allows for precise selection of data sources, enhancing search accuracy and reducing unnecessary data proliferation. Users can now search by different identifiers and manage data source locations more effectively, streamlining the eDiscovery workflow.
The integration with Microsoft Information Protection enables searches based on Sensitive Information Types and sensitivity labels, facilitating data classification and encryption for enhanced security and compliance. The new eDiscovery experience also introduces enhanced investigation capabilities, including search by audit log and improved search capabilities by identifier, empowering users to expedite security investigations.
Microsoft Security Copilot’s capabilities in eDiscovery simplify query generation from natural language and provide contextual summarization, enhancing the review process and aiding in identifying key insights from extensive datasets. Additional export options, export setting enhancements, and a review set query report further streamline the eDiscovery process, providing transparency and defensibility in investigations.
Overall, the modernized Microsoft Purview eDiscovery experience is set to redefine legal compliance and security investigations, offering a more efficient and accessible eDiscovery process. These transformative enhancements are expected to be Generally Available by the end of 2024, empowering legal and compliance teams to achieve new levels of efficiency and effectiveness in their work. Visit the Microsoft documentation to learn more about these changes and provide feedback to continue innovating for an improved user experience.
