What to expect in the new Microsoft Purview portal

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This article covers usage and features for the new Microsoft Purview portal. For information about the Microsoft Purview governance portal, or the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, follow these links:

Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate.

The new experience is an enhancement to the current Microsoft Purview governance portal, and doesn't impact your information already stored in Microsoft Purview or your ability to use our APIs. It's a user experience upgrade based on your feedback with some new features for you to try!

In this article we cover:

Get started

The new Microsoft Purview experience uses a single, organization-wide instance of Microsoft Purview. Access to the latest Microsoft Purview experience depends on your current relationship with Microsoft Purview.

New Microsoft Purview customers

If you're a Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics 365, or Power Apps user, to access the new version of Microsoft Purview for your organization go to https://purview.microsoft.com.

If you're not a Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics 365, or Power Apps user, we're currently making this new version of Microsoft Purview available to organizations in batches. Go to https://purview.microsoft.com to check if it's available to your organization. If not:

  • You can create a Microsoft Purview account to access the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview. (Recommended, as the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview has all available Microsoft Purview features.)
  • You can wait until the free version of Microsoft Purview is available to your organization within the next few weeks.

Existing Microsoft Purview customers

If you're already using Microsoft Purview, we're making the new experience available for you to use over the next few weeks. You can follow this link for more information about upgrading to the new experience.

What applications can I access in the new Microsoft Purview portal?

What you have access to in the new portal depends on your Microsoft Purview account.

Existing Microsoft Purview customers

If you're an existing customer who has upgraded to the new experience, you have access to all your existing data governance applications in the new experience. There's just a new user experience housing your information!

New Microsoft Purview customers

If you're a new Microsoft Purview customer, you may be starting out with the free version of Microsoft Purview.

Only a core subset of Microsoft Purview's applications with limited capabilities are currently available in the free version:

For more information, see our free version of Microsoft Purview documentation.

Use the new portal

You can launch the new portal directly by going to https://purview.microsoft.com.

Tip

If you can't access the portal, it may not be available for your organization yet. We are making the new experience available to organizations in batches. For more information, see our account upgrade documentation.

Home page

The home page is the first page in the Microsoft Purview portal.

Screenshot of the Microsoft Purview portal homepage, with the main features numbered.

The following list summarizes the main features of home page. Each number in the list corresponds to a highlighted number in the preceding screenshot.

  1. Tiles for available applications - selecting a tile takes you directly to that application, or you can search all applications by selecting View all apps.
  2. In the data catalog tile, the search box allows you to search the data catalog directly from the home page. There's also a list of quick links to connect to recently accessed data assets.
  3. The knowledge center tile links to conceptual and training videos, blogs, and documents for Microsoft Purview.
  4. The waffle menu provides quick links to all your Microsoft 365 products.
  5. The top navigation bar contains links to:
    1. Upgrade to the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview
    2. View any notifications from Microsoft Purview
    3. View release notes and updates
    4. Provide feedback
    5. View and manage settings
    6. Help and support
    7. Management for your user account

Application page

Application pages host unique features for each application, but still allow you to navigate the rest of the portal from the application's individual page.

Screenshot of the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog page, with the main features numbered.

The following list summarizes the main features of an application page. In this example, the data catalog page. Each number in the list corresponds to a highlighted number in the preceding screenshot.

  1. The main navigation menu can be opened or minimized, and contains links to:
    1. Return to the Microsoft Purview home page
    2. Navigate features of the application you're currently using. In this example, you can select the data catalog's overview page to search, or select the browse feature.
    3. Return to a list of all applications
    4. Navigate to related applications
  2. The main body of the page contains the application, in this example, the data catalog's search bar, quick access to navigate data by source type, and quick access to recently access data assets.
  3. The top navigation bar to manage support, settings, and account is always available at the top of the page.

New features

You can enjoy all the features you already have access to in the classic governance portal in the new experience, but there are also a few new features in the new portal:

Settings

Settings in the new Microsoft Purview portal include:

  • Account type - either Free or Enterprise. The free version of Microsoft Purview only includes a subset of applications and sources. The enterprise version of Microsoft Purview includes all available governance applications and sources.
  • Private endpoints - set private endpoints to allow your Microsoft Purview instance to connect using a virtual network.
  • Kafka configurations - configure Microsoft Purview to be able to send and receive Atlas Kafka topics events with Azure Event Hubs

Support

With the free version of Microsoft Purview, you can't open support tickets for Microsoft Purview. You need to upgrade to enterprise access for support.

FAQ - Frequently asked questions

For frequently asked questions about the new portal or upgrading to the new experience, see our FAQ page for the new Microsoft Purview portal.

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