Microsoft Purview data governance documentation

Learn how to use the Microsoft Purview governance portal so your organization can find, understand, govern, and consume data sources. Tutorials, REST API reference, and other documentation show you how to plan and configure your data repository where you can discover available data sources and manage right use.

About Microsoft Purview

Overview

• Microsoft Purview data governance solutions

Concept

• Use the Microsoft Purview governance portal
• Understand Microsoft Purview access control
• Understand the elastic data map
• Scan and ingest sources
• Share and receive data
• Data classification

Learn

• Introduction to Microsoft Purview

Get started

Get Started

• Create a Microsoft Purview account - Portal
• Create a Collection - Portal
• Share and receive data - Portal

How-To Guide

• Manage access and collections
• Connect to sources

Deploy

• Deployment best practices

Register and scan Azure data sources

How-To Guide

• Scan Multiple Azure sources
• Scan Azure SQL Database
• Scan Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2
• Scan Azure Synapse Workspace
• Scan Power BI Tenant
• Scan Azure Blob Storage
• Troubleshoot connections

Tutorial

• Onboard Azure sources at scale

Classify data

Tutorial

• Resource sets, assets, schemas, classifications
• Glossary terms

How-To Guide

• Apply sensitivity labels
• Create, edit, & delete custom classifications and rules
• Create, import, & export a glossary
• Bulk edit assets

Discover data

Tutorial

• Browse and lineage

How-To Guide

• Connect to Azure Data Factory
• Use data lineage features
• Browse by asset type
• Search for assets, terms, annotations, and contacts

Share data in Microsoft Purview

How-To Guide

• Share data
• Receive shared data
• Share data from Azure Storage
• Share data from ADLS Gen 2

Scan non-Azure data sources

How-To Guide

• Scan SQL server on-premises
• Scan Google BigQuery
• Scan Amazon S3
• Scan Amazon RDS
• Scan Oracle
• Scan Hive Metastore Database

Understand your data

How-To Guide

• View sensitivity label insights
• View asset insights
• View classification insights
• View glossary insights

Secure your network

How-To Guide

• Use private endpoints with Microsoft Purview
• Network configuration
• Connect to private networks

Secure your data

Concept

• Data owner policies
• Self-service data access policy

How-To Guide

• Registering data sources for Data Use Management
• Authoring and publishing data owner access policies

Tutorial

• Data owner policies for Azure Storage
• Data owner policies on resource groups or subscriptions

Master Data Management - MDM

How-To Guide

• Profisee MDM Master Data Management