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narenbabu
Copper Contributor
Sep 21, 2024

How to create a Pre-prod environment for Microsoft Purview

Hello, 

In order to implement policies in Microsoft purview for any organization, they need to be tested. 

How to setup a pre-prod environment and test these policies before moving these policies to prod environment?

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  • HaraldRau's avatar
    HaraldRau
    Iron Contributor

    I believe you have basically two options:

    • setup a Pre-prod M365 tenant with all the necessary M365 workloads. That's a lot of work and will only make sense, if the teams responsible for the other M365 workloads use it too for their testing purposes. However, I don't think there is a good way of deploying policies from one tenant to another. 
    • use the Purview Prod environment and limit the scope of your test policies to a test user group while testing - alternatively set policies into simulation mode before turning them on and evaluate the simulation results. That works fairly well when dealing with DLP and Information Protection policies.

    Hope that helps. 

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