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Frequently Asked Microsoft Purview Questions

Published 2024-09-13 by Kevin Feasel

James Serra has answers:

Microsoft Purview is now the combination of multiple Microsoft products.  Can you explain the differences?

Let’s break Microsoft Purview down into three sections of features that were formerly other products to clarify things:

  • Data governance:  This deals with data catalog, data quality (preview), data lineage, data management, and data estate insights (preview).  The product that had these features was formerly called Azure Purview
  • Data security: Covers data loss prevention, insider risk management, information protection, and adaptive protection.  The product that had these features was formerly called Microsoft Information Protection (MIP)
  • Data compliance: This covers compliance manager, eDiscovery and audit, communication compliance, data lifecycle management, and records management.  The product that had these features was formerly called Microsoft Information Governance

My question is, why is it so incomprehensibly expensive? It’s a really neat tool that a lot of organizations could make great use of, but it has at least one and maybe two too many zeroes on the bill, causing limited adoption.

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Microsoft Purview Classifications and Sensitivity Labels

Published 2024-07-25 by Kevin Feasel

James Serra labels the data:

I see a lot of confusion on how classifications and sensitivity labels work in Microsoft Purview. This blog will help to clear that up, but I first must address the confusion with Purview now that multiple products have been renamed to Microsoft Purview. I decided to use a question-and-answer format that will hopefully clear up the confusion (I was very confused too!):

Purview is a fantastic product. I just wish it cost about 10% as much as it does; then I could heartily recommend it to people.

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New Data Governance Features in Microsoft Purview

Published 2024-04-18 by Kevin Feasel

James Serra takes a look:

The changes to Purview, in short, are that the “Data Catalog” section of Microsoft Purview was redesigned and updated with new features, including a “Data management” section and a “Data estate health” section. Within the data management section, you can easily define and assign business-friendly terminology (such as Finance and Claims). Business-friendly language follows the data governance experience through Data Products (a collection of data assets used for a business function), Business Domains (ownership of Data Products), Data Quality (assessment of quality), Data Access, and Data Estate Health (reports and insights). Let’s explore each of these new features in detail:

Read on for a fairly deep dive into these changes.

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Documenting Table Columns with the Python SDK for Purview

Published 2024-04-16 by Kevin Feasel

Danaraj Ram Kumar breaks out the Python IDE:

There are several approaches to work with Microsoft Purview entities programmatically, especially when needing to perform bulk operations such as documenting a large number of tables and columns dynamically. 

This article shows how to use the Python SDK for Purview to programmatically document Purview table columns in bulk – assuming there are many tables and columns that needed to be automatically documented based off a reference tables – as in this example, the data dictionary maintained in Excel.

On the other hand, Purview REST APIs can be used to natively work with the REST APIs whereas the Python SDK for Purview is a wrapper that makes it easier to programmatically interacts with the Purview Atlas REST APIs in the backend.

Click through for sample code and explanations.

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Accessing the Purview Portal in Your Fabric Environment

Published 2024-02-12 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant enables a feature:

In this post I want to cover accessing the new Microsoft Purview portal in your own Microsoft Fabric environment.

To clarify, I mean a Microsoft Fabric environment you have created for your own use. Like the one I covered in a previous post.

You can do this in a trial environment thanks to the new capability provided by Microsoft last year to infuse Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Purview. Which Microsoft covered in a blog post about Microsoft Fabric items in Microsoft Purview.

Read on to see how.

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Diving into the New Purview Portal

Published 2023-08-04 by Kevin Feasel

Wolfgang Strasser takes screenshots:

In order to access the new version of the Purview portal, you need to migrate/upgrade you existing Purview account to the new, one account per tenant model. You can find more information about that process in the documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/account-upgrades)

Wolfgang shows off what you get if you do make this migration or create a new account.

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Updates to Microsoft Purview

Published 2023-08-03 by Kevin Feasel

Wolfgang Strasser keeps us informed:

It’s been a while that there were some (major) announcements around Microsoft Purview Data Governance. But it seems that August (2023) is a good month with some quite huge announcements:

Click through for those announcements. I particularly appreciate the free version. Even though it’s fairly limited, the price is right for people who are just playing around with the system and don’t want a massive bill.

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Configuring Compliance in Microsoft Fabric

Published 2023-06-06 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant checks a box:

Compliance is a very important aspect when working for data. Especially when you must work to standards like PCI-DSS. With this in mind I looked into the compliance story for Microsoft Fabric.

By the end of this post, you will have a better idea of how to test configuring compliance for Microsoft Fabric. Along the way I share plenty of links.

Read on for step-by-step instructions, as well as those links.

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Try Purview (Almost) for Free

Published 2023-03-10 by Kevin Feasel

Wolfgang Strasser wants to try Microsoft Purview but doesn’t want to break the bank:

And my reaction was – Nice, very nice.. I can try and create Microsoft Purview instances for free and test new features..

BUT: I wanted to be sure and check, how much metadata (sources, scan results, data assets, classifications) can fit into 1 MB of metadata.

Read on for Wolfgang’s test, as well as the full set of costs around trying out Purview.

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Building Custom Lineage in Purview

Published 2023-02-13 by Kevin Feasel

Alex Crampton writes some Python code:

The aim of this blog is to explain how to create custom Purview processes, enabling you to add lineage from processes that are not tracked out of the box.

As covered in this blog, Azure Purview can help with understanding the lineage of your data, offering visibility of how and where data is moving within your data estate.

Lineage can only be tracked out of the box when using tools such as Data Factory, Power BI, and Azure Data Share. Lineage is lost when using other tools like Azure Functions, Databricks notebooks, or SQL stored procedures.

Read on to see the code, as well as what you can do.

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