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
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
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
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
952 Reviews
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
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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