Microsoft has recently launched a redesigned Microsoft Purview eDiscovery product experience in public preview, aiming to revolutionize data search, review, and export tasks within eDiscovery. This enhanced user experience focuses on efficiency and ease, addressing customer requests and introducing innovative features like draft query with Copilot and search using audit log. The new eDiscovery experience is available exclusively in the Microsoft Purview portal, offering a unified platform for data governance, security, and compliance.
Key highlights of the new eDiscovery experience include:
– Unified experience across different licensing tiers, simplifying workflows and providing access to premium features seamlessly.
– Strengthened security controls for Content Search, ensuring authorized access and preventing data breaches.
– Enhanced data source management for precise selection and effective search, reducing costs associated with data storage.
– Improved integration with Microsoft Information Protection, supporting searches by Sensitive Information Types and sensitivity labels.
– Enhanced investigation capabilities for security investigations, including search by audit log and evidence file.
– Microsoft Security Copilot capabilities for generating KeyQL from natural language and providing contextual summarization.
– Additional export options with setting enhancements for greater flexibility and control.
– Transparency in long-running processes with progress bars and detailed reports for increased visibility and defensibility.
These enhancements aim to streamline the eDiscovery process, making it more efficient and accessible. The new eDiscovery experience is currently in public preview and is expected to be Generally Available by the end of 2024. Users can explore the changes in eDiscovery through the product documentation and provide feedback via the Microsoft Purview portal. The rollout is expected to reach all worldwide tenants by mid-September, empowering legal and compliance teams to achieve new levels of efficiency and effectiveness in their work.
