Enable advanced Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) and Audit (Premium) to support compliance and legal workflows
Our Microsoft Purview E5 eDiscovery & Audit Add-on Enablement service helps organisations activate and operate advanced compliance features for legal discovery, investigation and extended audit scenarios by configuring the add-on, mapping case processes and defining roles and policies.
We assess your current Purview configuration, implement eDiscovery (Premium) and Audit (Premium) licensing prerequisites, design operating procedures and deliver runbooks so that legal, compliance and security teams can manage cases and extended audit policies effectively.
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Service Overview
Highlights
- Assessment of current Purview compliance posture
- Enablement of eDiscovery (Premium) and Audit (Premium)
- Role and permissions design for case and audit workflows
- Operational runbooks and handover artefacts
Business Benefits
- Support legal and internal investigations with advanced search and review
- Retain audit logs for extended compliance and forensic purposes
- Align roles and processes for compliance teams
- Prepare governance artefacts for consistent case handling
Typical use cases
- Organisations upgrading from Standard compliance to advanced discovery
- Legal teams responding to litigation and regulatory requests
- Compliance functions seeking longer audit retention and richer logs
- Security operations requiring audit visibility beyond basics
Objectives & deliverables
What Success Looks Like
- Verify licensing prerequisites for Purview eDiscovery and Audit add-ons
- Enable and configure eDiscovery (Premium) features in Purview
- Set up advanced audit policies and retention levels
- Document processes and roles for legal and compliance workflows
What You Get
- Purview eDiscovery and Audit readiness report
- Configuration artefacts for Premium features
- Role and permission design documentation
- Case and audit operating runbooks
How It Works
- Perform discovery of current compliance configuration and licensing
- Validate and assign E5 eDiscovery & Audit add-on licences
- Configure eDiscovery (Premium) and Audit (Premium) settings
- Document and hand over operational artefacts to stakeholders
Engagement Options
- Purview Compliance Readiness Assessment
- eDiscovery Workflow Design Workshop
- Audit Policy and Retention Planning
- Operational Handover and Training
Additional Information
Prerequisites & licensing
To begin this enablement engagement you need visibility of your Microsoft Purview compliance configuration, appropriate admin access, and clarity on legal and audit requirements for your organisation.
- Global or Compliance administrator access to Microsoft 365 tenant
- Licensing checklist for Purview E5 eDiscovery & Audit add-on licences
- Inventory of teams and roles needing advanced eDiscovery and audit access
- Definition of regulatory or legal obligations relevant to audit and discovery
Security & Compliance Notes
- Ensure role assignments for eDiscovery and audit align to responsibility boundaries within legal and compliance functions.
- Extended audit log retention and Premium features should reflect stated compliance and regulatory requirements.
Common Bundles
Customers who use this service often bundle with these services
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