check before: 2025-03-24
Product:
Purview Communication Compliance, Purview Data Loss Prevention
Platform:
Online, World tenant
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Change type:
Admin impact, Retirement
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Summary:
Microsoft Purview will retire the event alerts capability within the Purview Audit solution on March 24, 2025. Existing alert policies created through the Audit solution will stop generating alerts, and related cmdlets will be retired. Users should recreate these policies through Purview DLP, which remains unaffected.
Details:
Microsoft Purview previously offered the flexibility to create event alert policies through the Purview Audit solution (in addition to the more commonly used Data Loss Prevention alerts). On March 24, 2025, we will be retiring the event alerts capability within the Purview Audit solution. With this change, any existing alert policies which had been created through the Audit solution will no longer generate alerts and customers will no longer be able to create new alert policies through the Audit solution. This functionality had already been removed from the Purview Portal's Audit UI in 2023. Starting March 24, 2025, support for the following cmdlets will also be retired:
Get-AuditConfigurationRule
New-AuditConfigurationRule
Remove-AuditConfigurationRule
Set-AuditConfigurationRule
Please note that the event alerts capability within Purview DLP will remain unaffected by this change. Any alert policies created through Purview DLP will continue to generate alerts as expected. We recommend that you use the alerts functionality within DLP, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.
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2025-02-15
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2025-02-15
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Direct effects for Operations**
Loss of Alert Functionality
Existing alert policies created through the Purview Audit solution will stop generating alerts, leading to potential oversight of critical events.
- roles: Compliance Officer, IT Administrator
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/create-activity-alerts?view=o365-worldwide, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/dlp-alerts-get-started
Increased Risk of Data Breaches
Without alerts from the Purview Audit solution, there is a higher risk of undetected data breaches or compliance violations.
- roles: Data Protection Officer, Security Analyst
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/create-activity-alerts?view=o365-worldwide, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/dlp-alerts-get-started
Operational Disruption
IT teams may face operational disruptions as they scramble to recreate alert policies in Purview DLP without prior preparation.
- roles: IT Support Specialist, System Administrator
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/create-activity-alerts?view=o365-worldwide, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/dlp-alerts-get-started
User Experience Degradation
Users may experience delays in incident response due to the lack of timely alerts from the Purview Audit solution.
- roles: End User, Help Desk Technician
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/create-activity-alerts?view=o365-worldwide, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/dlp-alerts-get-started
Training and Knowledge Gaps
Staff may require additional training to adapt to the new alerting system in Purview DLP, leading to temporary knowledge gaps.
- roles: Training Coordinator, Compliance Officer
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/create-activity-alerts?view=o365-worldwide, https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/dlp-alerts-get-started
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