Author: David Drever
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M365 Ottawa – Records Management Presentation
I had a fantastic time today presenting to a standing-room only session on records management. So many great questions and interactions that I ran out of time for my session (sorry about that to all my attendees). I really turned on the auctioneer voice by the end. As promised however, is the slide deck I…
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Purview Records Management – Ensuring Your Data is There When You Need It
In August 2026, I had the privilege of speaking to a great group of people at the TechCon 365 Conference in Seattle. In this session I provided an overview and insights into how Microsoft Purview handles the records management and data lifecycle management needs of the organization. Quick teaser, I have a discussion post coming…
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Naming Things is Hard. The Hidden Cost of Poor Purview Naming
Recently a friend and colleague of mine, Anna Bordioug, co-wrote a blog with another friend and colleague, Antonio Maio on the pitfalls of bad naming for DLP policies. The blog discusses how a bad naming convention can cause your admins and your users problems and the outcomes from a supportability perspective. I was deeply honoured…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Creating an Endpoint DLP Policy – Video
In my previous video blog I had promised my next video was going to be the administrator and end user experience. Unfortunately, I have made a liar of myself. Before I do that video, I wanted instead to demonstrate the process for creating an endpoint DLP policy. This will allow me to demonstrate both the…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Protect your Sensitive Information in Remote Desktop Sessions
Believe it or not, it isn’t uncommon data loss to occur through the use of remote desktop services. One wouldn’t think this could happen often as you can actually configure group policies and Intune policies to block the flow of data across the remote desktop protocol (RDP). Organizations often don’t do this as it can…