Summary
In this module, you learned how to configure Dataverse auditing at the environment, table, and column levels to capture a complete change history for regulatory evidence. By routing audit data to Microsoft Purview, you established long-term compliance retention that satisfies PCI-DSS requirements without letting Dataverse log storage grow unchecked. Duplicate detection rules now flag matching records before they're saved, and scheduled bulk detection jobs catch duplicates that predate your rules. Finally, data retention policies move inactive records to compressed long-term storage, and bulk delete removes data that has no compliance or business value.
Zava's admin team started this module with three critical gaps: no audit trail for compliance reviews, duplicate customer records inflating costs and confusing business teams, and years of stale data consuming expensive storage capacity.
Together, these capabilities form a complete data lifecycle strategy: audit for accountability, deduplication for quality, and retention for cost control - all operating within Dataverse's security model to maintain appropriate access controls.