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Microsoft Purview Information Security Administrator Course (Udemy.com)

Learn how to expertly administer Microsoft Purview with hands on experience!

Created by: John Christopher

Last updated October 2026

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What you will learn

  • Learn the concepts and perform hands on activities needed to master Microsoft Purview
  • Gain a tremendous amount of knowledge involving Microsoft Purview
  • Learn using hands on simulations on how Microsoft Purview is administered!
  • Learn how to set up your own test lab for practicing the concepts!

How it compares

Against the other 523 rated Udemy courses in Hacking on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 72% of them
  • Reviews952#197 of 524 by number of reviews
  • Length8.6 hourslonger than 66% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2026more recently than 99% of them

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Course Description

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

  • Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

  • Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

  • Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

  • Welcome to the course!

  • Understanding the Microsoft 365 and Azure Environment

  • A Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains

  • A Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

  • A Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

  • DONT SKIP: Before beginning your account setup

  • Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

  • IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

  • Questions for John Christopher

  • Certificate of Completion

Using Data Classification and Sensitivity Label in Microsoft Purview

  • Introducing the new Microsoft Purview portal

  • Understanding requirements for sensitive information

  • Concepts of built-in or custom sensitive information requirements

  • Creating custom sensitive info types

  • Document Fingerprinting

  • Working with exact data match (EDM) classifiers

  • Understanding trainable classifiers

  • Working with trainable classifiers

  • Using data explorer & content explorer for monitoring data classification

  • Sensitive info types with optical character recognition (OCR)

  • Understanding sensitivity labels

  • Administering permissions for sensitivity labels

  • Creating sensitivity labels

  • Sensitivity label protection settings and content marking

  • Publishing sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview

  • Using auto-labeling policies for sensitivity labels

  • Controlling sensitivity label to containers

  • How users can apply sensitivity labels manually using Microsoft Word

  • Monitor label usage by using Content explorer, Activity explorer, & label reports

  • Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

  • How Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can apply sensitivity labels

Using Microsoft Purview for information protection of clients and data

  • Concepts of the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client

  • Setting up the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client

  • Using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client to manage files

  • Understanding MS Purview Information Protection scanner bulk classifications

  • Deleting the Azure VM that is no longer needed

  • Understanding the Microsoft 365 email Encryption solutions

  • Microsoft Purview Message Encryption

  • Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption

Using Data Loss Prevention with Microsoft Purview

  • Understanding data loss prevention policies

  • Data loss prevention roles and permissions

  • Creating data loss prevention policies

  • Using Adaptive Protection with data loss prevention

  • Data loss prevention policy and rule precedence

  • Using Defender for Cloud apps to deploy DLP file policies

  • Monitor for DLP alerts, events, and view reports

  • Concepts of Endpoint DLP device requirements

  • Settings used to manage Endpoint DLP

  • Managing DLP policies using the advanced rules

  • Working with just-in-time (JIT) protection

  • How to monitor endpoint activities

Using and maintaining retention in Microsoft Purview

  • Understanding information retention and disposition

  • Retention Policies vs Retention Labels vs Retention Label Policies

  • Using adaptive scopes

  • Creating retention labels

  • Publishing a retention label using a label policy

  • Using auto-apply labels for retention

  • Understanding policy precedence in regards to conflicts

  • Creating retention policies

  • Concepts for recovering retained content in Microsoft 365

Using Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview

  • Understanding Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365

  • Concepts of Insider Risk Management roles and permissions

  • Using Insider Risk Management connectors

  • Managing Insider Risk Management settings

  • Managing the settings for policy indicators

  • Understanding the concepts of policy templates

  • Creating Insider Risk Management policies

  • Working with forensic evidence settings

  • Managing insider risk levels for Adaptive Protection

  • Insider risk alerts and cases

  • Using notice templates within Insider Risk Management

Using alert monitoring and protecting data used by AI services

  • Understanding the license concepts for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)\

  • Looking into activities by using Microsoft Purview Audit

  • Working with audit retention policies

  • Using activity explorer to analyze Microsoft Purview activities

  • Data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview

  • Viewing insider risk activities

  • Viewing Purview alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR

  • Working with file policy alerts using Defender for Cloud Apps

  • Performing content searches

  • Understanding controls for the AI services in Microsoft Purview

  • Concepts of Microsoft 365 workload controls

  • Setting up a Windows 11 VM for hands on

  • Setting up the pre-requisites involving DSPM for AI

  • AI policies with DSPM

  • DSPM for AI activity monitoring

  • Deleting the Windows 11 VM from the lab



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Instructor Details

John Christopher

John Christopher is a Technical Instructor that has been in the business for 25 years. His first experience with information technology occurred in the early 90s when he ran an MS-DOS based BBS(Bulletin Board System) as a System Operator. In the late 90s, after working with Windows NT 3.50 performing backups for Regal Group, he decided to get Windows NT Microsoft Certified.

In 1998 he got his first Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer certification. Shortly after getting certified, he began working as a Junior Administrator and Instructor for Knowledge Alliance. From there John was able to become one of the first people in the world to gain an MCSE for the Windows 2000 operating system and he began teaching full time for a company called Productivity Point International. At Productivity Point, John got Citrix Metaframe certified and began teaching Citrix along with Microsoft classes. Productivity Point began experiencing financial troubles and John moved on to work with another training company in 2001

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Reviews

4.6

952 ratings on Udemy

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By Samuel Majekodunmi on 7/26/2026

As always, John's courses are on point. I appreciate the high level of information on each topic. I leave his courses confident in my understanding of Microsoft's security products.

By King Masweneng on 4/15/2026

The instructor is doing an amazing job. The content is engaging and not boring at all, and I really enjoy the jokes he casually throws in. Overall, I am very happy with the course—the content is highly informative, and I genuinely love it.

By Anonymized User on 4/14/2026

I learn to more about knowledge based new things, Hope it will be accessing fit for me to upgrade skills.

By Niclas Gustafsson on 2/25/2026

I have taken a few of the courses from John and he is very good at explaining things in a way that is easy to understand and i would highly recommend this and his other courses.

By Juan Manuel González Paz on 2/24/2026

Buena visión global de Purview. Se agradecería que profundizara en muchas de las opciones que se pueden seleccionar, en lugar de limitarse a leer los textos que muestra la aplicación. Aún con todo, muy recomendado.

By Roger Collingwood on 1/27/2026

Just the first 2 lessons into this course, and I can't tell he will be a good teacher that knows what he is talking about and where the lesson is going. Thank You. Well Done!

By Camaron McCluggage on 12/4/2025

Coming from a UNIX background, I really appreciate starting with the foundation. This is the first Microsoft-related course I have taken that did not assume I was a domain admin. Awesome.

By Jonathan D on 11/21/2025

Very informative and thank you for the labs. It helped with my understanding seeing how this works. In the end I did the Microsoft SC-401 exam and passed. I'm officially certified.

By Russel Fernandes on 7/20/2025

The course is good to get a general overview. I was looking for courses that can help me clear the certification exam, and this is rather something that helps with brushing up on concepts, this does help at work to do my job more efficiently. i have few other other courses from John that i would be completing to understand if that would help me prepare for the SC exams.

By Onimole Oludolamu on 7/18/2025

Great course. Would be nice to add other purview components to it like DSPM, Information barriers, Data map to it for a fuller course. I hope this can be added in the future as purview is now very extensive and more companies are now using it!

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