Compliance & Purview Administration

📚 Course 8 of 8 · Advanced

Microsoft Purview

Compliance & Purview Administration
Complete SC-400 Course

Master Microsoft Purview end-to-end — classify sensitive data, deploy sensitivity labels, enforce DLP policies, manage retention and records, run eDiscovery, search audit logs, and govern insider risk across your Microsoft 365 tenant.

🟣 Advanced📦 6 Modules⏱ ~6 Hours🎯 SC-400 Aligned
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🎯 Aligned to SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator

Every module maps to an SC-400 exam skill area with an exam alignment section and 5-question mock test per module.

Implement Information Protection
Sensitive Information Types
Sensitivity Labels
Data Loss Prevention
Retention Policies
Records Management
eDiscovery & Audit
Insider Risk Management

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this course you will be able to implement a full data governance and compliance programme in Microsoft 365 and pass SC-400 scenario questions on every topic

Navigate the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and understand every section
Use Compliance Manager to assess, track, and improve compliance score
Create and manage built-in and custom sensitive information types (SITs)
Configure trainable classifiers to detect custom content at scale
Use Content Explorer and Activity Explorer to understand data landscape
Create sensitivity labels with encryption, watermarking, and access restrictions
Deploy sensitivity label policies and configure auto-labelling policies
Apply sensitivity labels to Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint sites, and Teams
Create DLP policies for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and endpoints
Configure retention policies and retention labels across all M365 workloads
Build a file plan and manage records including regulatory records
Run Content Search, eDiscovery cases, and export evidence packages
Search the Unified Audit Log and set up audit retention policies
Configure Insider Risk Management policies and Communication Compliance

📋 Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with Microsoft 365 admin basics (M365 Admin Center course recommended)
  • Understanding of Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive as data sources
  • Optional: Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance trial or Purview trial tenant to follow along

Course Modules

Six modules covering every area of Microsoft Purview compliance — SC-400 aligned with a mock test in every module. All modules freely accessible.

01
SC-400 Aligned · 5 Topics

Microsoft Purview Overview & Compliance Portal

Microsoft Purview positioning, the compliance portal (compliance.microsoft.com), Compliance Manager and Compliance Score, admin roles, and the data map and data catalog overview.

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02
SC-400 Aligned · 5 Topics

Sensitive Information Types & Data Classification

Built-in and custom sensitive information types, Exact Data Match (EDM) classifiers, trainable classifiers, Content Explorer, and Activity Explorer for understanding the data landscape.

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03
SC-400 Aligned · 6 Topics

Sensitivity Labels

Sensitivity label hierarchy and scopes, creating labels with encryption and visual markings, label policies, auto-labelling policies, labels for sites and groups, and meeting sensitivity labels.

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04
SC-400 Aligned · 5 Topics

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

DLP policy creation and rule configuration, policy tips and notifications, DLP across Exchange / SharePoint / OneDrive / Teams, Endpoint DLP, and investigating DLP alerts and activity reports.

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05
SC-400 Aligned · 5 Topics

Retention Policies & Records Management

Retention policies vs retention labels, adaptive scopes, creating and applying retention across all M365 workloads, file plan management, event-based retention, and disposition review.

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06
SC-400 Aligned · 5 Topics

eDiscovery, Audit & Insider Risk Management

Content Search, eDiscovery (Standard) and eDiscovery (Premium) case workflows, Unified Audit Log search and export, Audit Premium retention, Insider Risk Management policies, and Communication Compliance.

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Ready to Govern Your Data?

Start with Module 1 — Purview Overview and the Compliance Portal — and work through each module in sequence to build a complete SC-400 skill set.

Begin Module 1: Purview Overview →