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Microsoft purview enviornments i.e TEST & PROD?
As per microsoft, it allow only Microsoft Purview account per tenant. How to design/ create the multiple environments in the microsoft purview i.e Test & prod? is it through domains?
Another question related to same, In my organisation we got single tenant and through subscriptions project/department segregration happened. Already one of department in organization they've created the purivew account for their project purpose. Now another department of project want to implement the purview and their team wants to managing asking purview admin privs and don't want to existing purivew admins to access the data, how to implement in the sceinarios?
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Microsoft Purview only allows one account per Azure tenant, so you can’t create completely separate “Test” and “Production” environments like you might with other tools. Instead, using collections, you can set up separate areas inside the same Purview account. Think of collections like folders with their own access controls — you can create one for testing and another for production and give different people access to each. This way, your test and production setups stay separate, even though they live in the same place.
If your organization already has a Purview account set up by one department, and now another team wants to use it without sharing data or admin rights, you don’t need a second account. Just give the new team their own collection and assign them admin roles only within that space. They won’t see the other team’s data, and the original admins won’t have access to theirs. Everything stays secure and separate. Creating an entirely new tenant (which would allow a second Purview account) should only be done if you truly need rigid separation — like for legal or regulatory reasons — because it adds a lot of extra complexity.
