Manage holds, search content, and reduce review time in Microsoft 365—all while simplifying your discovery process with Purview eDiscovery

Members of the IT audit department use Purview eDiscovery to filter data across mailboxes and SharePoint by keyword and date range, supporting their efforts during a regulatory audit.

 

What is Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

 

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is a cloud-native solution that helps organizations identify, preserve, search, and export content across Microsoft 365—including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Built into Microsoft's compliance framework, it gives legal, compliance, and IT teams the tools they need to manage eDiscovery cases end to end—without moving data or relying on third-party systems.

How Purview eDiscovery solves business challenges

 
  • Reduces legal risk: Apply legal holds to preserve content immediately and securely.
  • Improves response time: Search across email, documents, and chats in one place.
  • Lowers discovery costs: Use in-place review, culling tools, and machine learning to minimize document volume and external vendor spend.
  • Supports compliance: Maintain audit trails and align with regulatory mandates like HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR.

Two IT officers organize findings into a review set using features like email threading and date sorting to uncover relevant email conversations that may require disclosure.

 

What can you do with Purview eDiscovery?

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery equips your legal, compliance, and IT teams with the tools they need to manage the full lifecycle of discovery—without leaving the Microsoft 365 environment. From issuing legal holds to reviewing and exporting data, each feature is designed to streamline response times, reduce risk, and support defensible outcomes:

Case management

Create and manage eDiscovery cases in a centralized workspace, with role-based access for legal, compliance, and IT teams.

Legal hold

Prevent deletion of potentially relevant data by placing content locations on hold without disrupting user workflows.

Content search

Search across mailboxes, chats, documents, and sites in Microsoft 365 using customizable, keyword-based queries.

Review sets

Consolidate collected content into focused sets for filtering, tagging, and early relevance analysis.

Advanced analytics

Accelerate review with tools like email threading, duplicate detection, and machine learning-driven relevance scoring.

Audit logs

Maintain detailed records of search, access, and export activities to support regulatory and legal defensibility.

Export capabilities

Package and export responsive content with associated metadata in formats compatible with legal review systems.

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Minimize legal and regulatory risk with the right discovery strategy. Our consultants will help you understand licensing, implement Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, tailor policies, and guide your team through best practices for legal holds and data governance.

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How can Purview eDiscovery help your organization?

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Legal, compliance, and HR leaders gather to review a case, using Purview eDiscovery’s shared tools to accelerate cross-department investigations and decision-making. A female compliance officer conducts a content search with Purview eDiscovery, quickly locating, filtering, and preserving content across Microsoft 365 to support her compliance review.

Accelerates investigations

When legal, compliance, or HR teams need to act quickly, delays in locating critical information can create risk. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery speeds up investigations by allowing authorized users to search, filter, and collect content across Microsoft 365, including email, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, all from a single platform. There is no need to export data from multiple systems or rely on manual processes, which makes it easier to respond to legal demands or internal incidents with confidence and speed.

A screenshot of the Microsoft Purview eDiscovery dashboard shows key tools—review sets, near-duplicate detection, and machine learning—that help reduce review time and improve relevance.

Improves efficiency and reduces costs

Legal discovery is one of the most resource-intensive activities for many organizations. With features such as review sets, email threading, near-duplicate detection, and machine learning, Purview eDiscovery enables teams to identity and prioritize relevant content early in the process. This approach helps reduce the volume of data requiring attorney review, lowers external vendor costs, and limits the time spent managing fragmented data sources.

An employee accesses his work content on a mobile device and benefits from Microsoft 365’s integration with Purview eDiscovery, which allows secure, on-the-go access to discovery-relevant data. A senior HR employee and a compliance officer examine a laptop screen, reviewing collected files through Purview eDiscovery’s unified platform to make quick decisions during a sensitive case. A senior HR employee and a compliance officer shake hands after successfully reviewing files placed on legal hold with Purview eDiscovery, confident that the process met compliance and legal standards.

Strengthens compliance and governance

From regulatory audits to internal investigations, organizations must demonstrate that their data handling practices are consistent and secure. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery helps enforce governance policies by enabling legal holds, capturing audit trails, and applying role-based access controls. As part of the broader Microsoft Purview suite, it supports a consistent strategy for managing information risk across the entire data lifecycle.

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Our proven experience

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  • Deployed over 20M seats of Office 365, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft EMS
  • Customers in all 50 states
  • Experience in 70+ countries
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