New Microsoft Purview portal experience for data governance FAQ

The new Microsoft Purview portal is located at https://purview.microsoft.com. The classic data governance portal is located at https://web.purview.azure.com.

The new portal experience is available to all organizations. If you're using Microsoft Purview for the first time and you use Power BI or Microsoft Fabric, you'll automatically have access. If not, create a new account and you're automatically upgraded to the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview within a few weeks. For existing Microsoft Purview users, learn more about using the new experience if you have one Microsoft Purview account or if you have multiple Microsoft Purview accounts.

Yes. Learn more about pricing at Microsoft Purview pricing.

It depends:

If you're already using a Microsoft Purview account that's upgraded to use the new portal experience, your organization is using the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview. You can check your organization's account type in the Microsoft Purview portal by going to Settings > View all settings.

The new Microsoft Purview experience uses a single, organization-wide instance of Microsoft Purview.

One of your Microsoft Purview governance portal accounts are elevated to be the primary tenant/organization level account with all its current metadata and information. If you have other Microsoft Purview accounts, in the future their information will also be made available in the primary account.

Not currently. The new experience uses a single, primary Microsoft Purview account. If you have multiple accounts, you select a primary account when you upgrade to the new experience. In the future, the information in your other accounts will also be made available in this environment.

There's no impact on upgrading the account to the enhanced experience. Users can navigate the capabilities in the new Microsoft Purview portal and classic governance portal in Azure. If users browse Microsoft Purview portal from the Azure portal, the upgraded account provides two links to browse the portals.

If your account is eligible, upgrading to the new experience only takes a few minutes.

You can still access Microsoft Purview through the classic portal by launching the old endpoints through https://web.purview.azure.com.

Upgrading to enhanced experience doesn't change the status of generally available (GA) features.

If your Microsoft Purview account had disabled all public network access and is using private endpoints, you can still upgrade to the new experience. You can continue to use your ingestion private endpoints as is, but the new experience also uses a platform private endpoint. After upgrading to the new experience, you can follow this guide to set up platform the private endpoint for governance solutions in the Microsoft Purview portal. For more information, see what to do if your account has disabled all public network access.

If your organization uses Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Microsoft Fabric, Power Apps, or Power BI, your tenant has the Microsoft Purview Discovery Plan added. Administrators can find this plan under Your products in the admin center. This plan has no cost and grants access to the new experience.

If you're an existing Microsoft Purview customer (your Microsoft Entra tenant already has a Microsoft Purview account), a user holding a Purview Administrator role can upgrade your instance to the new experience. When that happens, you're prompted to confirm the upgrade. When you confirm, your tenant is added to the Microsoft Purview Discovery Plan. Administrators can find this plan under Your products in the admin center. This plan has no cost and grants access to the new experience. If a global or billing admin attempts this upgrade, they receive an error. If you don't have access to the Microsoft 365 role groups to assign Purview Admins, contact support.

Access the classic portal at https://web.purview.azure.com.

Yes. The upgraded account is accessible via both portals, and changes in metadata and configurations are visible in the classic and new portals.

Existing Microsoft Purview accounts stay the same and remain operational in parallel with the new experience for a time. Eventually users are encouraged to transition to the new experience.

We recommend all Microsoft Purview customers to start the upgrade as soon as possible. New features and capabilities are only available on the new portal.

1. Prepare your change request. Before the upgrade, Microsoft Purview users can navigate to the classic Microsoft Purview governance portal only through legacy endpoints:

Portal: web.purview.azure.com
Endpoint: https://[accountname].purview.azure.com/

After the upgrade, the upgraded account is accessible via legacy experience and the new experience. To use the new experience, make sure your corporate firewalls allow outbound traffic to new endpoints.

Access to classic portal and endpoints:
Portal:web.purview.azure.com
Endpoint - https://[accountname].purview.azure.com/

Access to new portal and endpoints:
Portal: purview.microsoft.com
Endpoint: api.purview-service.microsoft.com

2. Add new endpoints to your corporate firewalls. Even though the classic portal and endpoints are still available, as part of retiring these endpoints, Microsoft suggests planning to include new URLs and endpoints to your firewall. These updates make sure your users' access and applications aren't impacted when the legacy endpoints are retired.

3. Adjust permissions. The upgraded account can be accessed by users through Microsoft Purview roles. New roles are also added to your Microsoft Purview account at the tenant level. You can manage these roles in new portal. Learn more about data governance roles and permissions.

You can upgrade your primary account. All other Microsoft Purview accounts in your tenant can still be accessed through the classic portal. Be prepared to merge those accounts with the primary account when the feature becomes available. Microsoft will notify customers who require to perform more steps to merge these accounts.

We suggest you select the production account, the account that is used by most of your end users, or the account that's the most critical to your daily operations. See our guide to choosing your primary account.

Use collections and assign role-based access on those collections to provide granular access control.

The free version allows users to explore their Azure and Microsoft Fabric resources. See what's available in the free version.

The free version of Microsoft Purview governance solutions uses the same location mappings as Microsoft 365, and maps to a location based on your Microsoft Entra ID home region.

If your tenant has no Microsoft Purview account: The free version of Microsoft Purview governance solutions is mapped to the same location as your Microsoft 365 instance. If that's unavailable, then it falls back to using the location geographically closest to your Microsoft Entra ID region. When you upgrade from free to enterprise, the enterprise version uses the same location.

If your tenant has a Microsoft Purview account: If your Microsoft Purview account is already upgraded to the new experience, it's using the region it was created in or the region that was selected during upgrade. If you haven't upgraded a Microsoft Purview account to the new experience, if you upgrade an existing account or create a new account to upgrade then the enterprise version will use that account's region.

The Microsoft Purview region is incidental; it doesn't affect your configurations or how you use your data, even if your sources are in another region. Microsoft Purview does all data processing local to your data sources, and doesn't move your data to its own region or store your data. Your data remains securely in its own location, and ingress and egress charges that other Azure products sometimes incur aren't applicable. Regardless of where your data sources are housed, you don't need to change the region your Microsoft Purview account is using to interact with your sources.

If you're trying to upgrade from the free version to enterprise and can't upgrade due to security policy or data residency constraints around Microsoft Purview's mapped region, contact support. Also contact support if you're trying to create a first Microsoft Purview account in the Azure portal and can't create the account in the selected region due to security policy or data residency constraints.

If you're moving because of a security policy, you can only move to another region in your tenant's current Azure Geography. If you need to move to a region outside your tenant's current geography, you need to create a tenant in that geography.

All governance features and capabilities are available by upgrading to the enterprise version of Microsoft Purview.