Cloud Solution Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
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Jan 26, 2026
I work with Defender for IoT by chance because I see that we have enough reviews for Defender for Office 365 today, and we need reviews for some Azure products. I work with Azure products such as Logic Apps, Synapse Analytics, and DevOps. I am working with Exchange today as well. There is also Microsoft Azure Data Share, which is a data exchange service. I work with some other tools from Microsoft such as SharePoint, and I may also work with some smaller products for other use cases.
Microsoft Purview Audit functions as a compliance center. Whenever these systems generate logs, we use Microsoft Purview Audit to capture or retrieve those logs. While there are more tools available through Microsoft Purview Audit, we primarily use it for the audit functionality. There is also a compliance element that we will likely leverage at some point, but currently, it's focused on log retrieval. When logging into Microsoft Purview Audit and accessing the audit link, users can specify parameters such as date range, log types, and keywords. These parameters help refine the log data retrieval. It's fairly standard compared to other logging tools, but being part of the Microsoft suite makes it SaaS-based and easily accessible. For our platform and any apps deployed into an environment or Dataverse, we enable audit logging and monitoring. Through the Power Platform Admin Center, when audit logging is configured for any Dataverse, those logs automatically get transported to Microsoft Purview Audit. While we are still in the early stages of using Microsoft Purview Audit for the current client, it will be increasingly leveraged over time.
The unified auditing functionality in Microsoft 365 provides organizations with visibility into many types of audited activities across many different services in Microsoft 365. Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by increasing audit log retention required to conduct an investigation, providing access to crucial events that help determine scope of compromise, and faster access to Office 365 Management Activity API.
I work with Defender for IoT by chance because I see that we have enough reviews for Defender for Office 365 today, and we need reviews for some Azure products. I work with Azure products such as Logic Apps, Synapse Analytics, and DevOps. I am working with Exchange today as well. There is also Microsoft Azure Data Share, which is a data exchange service. I work with some other tools from Microsoft such as SharePoint, and I may also work with some smaller products for other use cases.
Microsoft Purview Audit functions as a compliance center. Whenever these systems generate logs, we use Microsoft Purview Audit to capture or retrieve those logs. While there are more tools available through Microsoft Purview Audit, we primarily use it for the audit functionality. There is also a compliance element that we will likely leverage at some point, but currently, it's focused on log retrieval. When logging into Microsoft Purview Audit and accessing the audit link, users can specify parameters such as date range, log types, and keywords. These parameters help refine the log data retrieval. It's fairly standard compared to other logging tools, but being part of the Microsoft suite makes it SaaS-based and easily accessible. For our platform and any apps deployed into an environment or Dataverse, we enable audit logging and monitoring. Through the Power Platform Admin Center, when audit logging is configured for any Dataverse, those logs automatically get transported to Microsoft Purview Audit. While we are still in the early stages of using Microsoft Purview Audit for the current client, it will be increasingly leveraged over time.
We utilize Microsoft Purview Audit for monitoring security and compliance aspects.
I use the solution to secure, protect, and manage our Active Directory, and our Microsoft environment.