Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Reviews

Our primary use case for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is related to eDiscovery cases internally. If someone is placed on litigation hold and we need to produce documents that may be related to a case, that's typically the use case.

This solution makes it much quicker for us on the support side to produce the materials because they're all in one place. Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented Purview now take just 30 minutes.

We primarily use Purview eDiscovery for litigation requests.

Purview eDiscovery has made it significantly easier to handle rare litigation requests. When we get the litigation request to pull the information that is being requested by our counsel, we do not have to be the ones to present it. The legal team can independently access and review information requested by counsel. They can get it, understand it, look at it, and tell us what they need. It has made that very easy for them.

It can connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices, and data in other SaaS apps. This would be important for my legal team. For me, what is important is that it is secure and limited to just the corporate data that is involved with those devices, depending on how it is enrolled.

It delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments. It is important for us because we do have an AWS footprint.

It was built taking into account critical regulations from around the world. We deal with a number of different compliance requirements. Being able to stay compliant with those regulations is definitely important.

It has affected the visibility we have into our estate. It definitely shows that a lot of my salespeople are not doing things the way they are supposed to. It has increased the workload a little bit, but it has also saved us money and the risk of not being in compliance.

It enables us to show our compliance in real-time. We have all the various policies turned on. We can do that quickly with a checkbox and screenshot. It has definitely sped that up.

We are using Microsoft Purview eDiscovery for our legal department to place legal holds whenever there's any type of litigation against our company.

Before using Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we manually placed our legal holds. This tool allows us to automate the process, allowing users in our legal department to place holds without needing IT involvement. The visibility and reporting are way better than what we had before because it was all manual. Before, all we could do was email someone and have them pull all the content. It significantly reduces the amount of time to generate a legal hold.

I sometimes use it for legal holds or to find lost items, and to determine what is going on. However, most of the time, my use case is legal-related.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery has saved me personally a lot of time because I can query it, and it touches everything we have as a full Microsoft shop. If I had to find things by hand, it would probably be a day's work, but I can find it in 10 minutes using Purview. I wouldn't want to do it the other way. It retrieves all the relevant results I need. This helps the company because it helps us ensure we have accurate information when there are legal disputes.

I was learning the product and using it to help others develop eDiscovery workflows through 365 data. I taught them how to collect data from Teams and other Microsoft products. 

One of our primary use cases was related to the pandemic. Many companies rolled out Teams quickly and had to play catch-up on various information governance issues, such as where Teams data resides and how to collect it. I spent a lot of time testing in a live environment, teaching people how things work, and doing other tasks to help them. 

I think eDiscovery Premium has made dealing with data from Teams much more accessible than any other platform. It has improved visibility by enabling us to pull things into a review set. Reviewing the metadata has helped us understand where things sit, whether in a mailbox or a SharePoint site. It shows us where the data is located and how it fits together.

It has been tremendously helpful to have a tool in my 365 environment and allows me to poke around to see where things are. I can create data that it doesn't see. The ability to test that quickly has been valuable. 

I think eDiscovery helped my client save time and money. You can run searches and get a feel for what is in the environment. The ability to use some of the tools with Teams data helps them. The alternative is to grab somebody's mailbox and send it to a vendor, who will process it and charge you. So having sort of an almost an early case assessment early data assessment tool that you can use again sits right there in your environment that gives you a feel for what's out there.

Purview lets me partially check compliance in real-time. They've updated some of the reporting, so it's getting better. I think one of the complaints for a long time was a lack of reporting. You could run a search and target a collection based on that search. The number of items that got pulled in as part of your collection wouldn't necessarily equal the number of search hits. There wasn't a lot of reporting to explain that. There were reasons for it. When you understand how the process works, it makes sense why it doesn't add up. However, it would be confusing how it went from 400 search hits to 600 items collected. 

I understood all the ways that could happen in theory, but I don't have any reporting that showed me that. They've started implementing reports like that, so it is improving in those areas. That was something I often heard on the compliance side. People complained they couldn't show their work because it was all Microsoft's secret sauce. Everything happened in the background, and you couldn't get a report on it. 

We use Microsoft Purview eDiscovery for searching historical data during legal cases. It helps us capture information from Outlook or Teams if a past employee leaves and their information is needed later.

Purview helps us find the information we need on time. It has increased visibility into our estate and helped us have the data readily available when we need it. 

Our company has been transforming since last year. Due to this, there have been numerous changes in the workforce, with employees joining and moving out. This solution helps collect data from SharePoint and email exchanges. It enables me to provide access to users for specific emails. Additionally, the solution allows you to search through contacts and other content.

The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and they didn't disclose it. Thanks to the product, it's easy for me to search and find out what communication a specific user has done, whether it's from SharePoint or any other platform. With Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we can easily retrieve and restore this data.

I used it for eDiscovery of electronically stored information in Microsoft 365. I craft searches, KQL queries, for litigation cases. It can be used for placing litigation holds, culling data, and even analytics.

The machine learning wasn't half bad. I really like that part. I thought it was novel. It pretty much automated it, once you trained the model.

And something that helps, internationally, is that Purview takes into account regulations around the world so that you can adhere to those regulations. That's a plus for an international enterprise.