Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

Build a Smarter Data Lifecycle Strategy

Deploy Microsoft Purview retention policies and labels with confidence.

Every day, your business creates and stores more emails, Teams chats, SharePoint files, and OneDrive documents. At the same time, data security incidents are becoming more common, AI is introducing new compliance challenges, and organizations are relying on more security tools than ever to protect sensitive information.

Without a clear data lifecycle strategy, information is retained longer than necessary, increasing compliance risk, storage costs, and the likelihood of sensitive data being exposed.

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management Deployment helps you implement retention policies, retention labels, and automated records management across Microsoft 365, giving you a consistent, defensible approach to governing your data while reducing the burden on employees.

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Why Data Lifecycle Management Matters

Keeping everything forever isn’t a compliance strategy. Businesses often retain far more information than necessary because they don’t have automated retention policies in place. That increases storage costs, complicates legal discovery, and creates unnecessary risk.

At the same time, deleting information too early can create regulatory issues. Microsoft Purview helps strike the right balance, but only when it’s configured correctly.

With a clear Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management strategy, your business can:

  • Automate retention and disposition with consistent policies across Microsoft 365.

  • Reduce legal and compliance risk through defensible records management and audit-ready processes.

  • Simplify governance by eliminating manual classification and ensuring data is retained only as long as necessary.

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A Complete Retention Strategy

With discovery workshops, retention policy and label design, taxonomy development, and technical documentation tailored to your business and compliance requirements.

A Fully Deployed and Validated Solution

Including policy configuration, retention label deployment, pilot testing, production rollout, validation, knowledge transfer, a Policy Management Guide, and complete as-built documentation.

Advanced Automation Capabilities

For larger engagements: including auto-labeling, adaptive scopes, disposition review workflows, Preservation Lock, and trainable classifiers.

Choose the Right Engagement

Every deployment follows the same proven methodology. The difference is simply the size of your Microsoft 365 environment and the depth of implementation.

Essentials

Ideal for smaller Microsoft 365 environments

Perfect for organizations with 100–300 users looking to establish a strong foundation for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management.

What’s Included

  • Fixed-price deployment

  • Technical design

  • Configuration

  • Pilot and production rollout

  • Documentation

  • Knowledge transfer

Standard

Built for growing businesses

Designed for 300–1,000 users that need a more comprehensive deployment with room to scale.

What’s Included

  • Fixed-price deployment

  • Technical design

  • Configuration

  • Pilot and production rollout

  • Documentation

  • Knowledge transfer

Enterprise

For complex, enterprise-scale deployments

Tailored for organizations with 1,000+ users that require advanced governance, automation, and compliance capabilities.

Includes everything in Standard, plus:

  • Adaptive scopes

  • Larger retention label taxonomies

  • Advanced auto-labeling

  • Preservation Lock

  • Enhanced governance and compliance capabilities

Reduce Your Investment with Microsoft Funding

Many businesses qualify for Microsoft’s CSP Deployment Accelerator funding.

Eligible customers purchasing qualifying Microsoft Defender and Purview licenses through CSP can significantly reduce the cost of deployment.

Depending on deployment size, funding can offset up to $10,000 of professional services.

We’ll determine your eligibility and manage the entire funding process on your behalf.

Is This Service Right for You? This engagement is ideal if you are:

Deploying Microsoft Purview for the first time

Replacing manual records management processes

Preparing for compliance audits

Looking to reduce legal and storage risk

Standardizing retention across Microsoft 365

Expanding Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance capabilities

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance licensing is required for users included in the deployment.

No. DLP, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Information Barriers, and eDiscovery are available as separate engagements.

Yes. Standard and Enterprise packages include auto-labeling capabilities, with Enterprise supporting trainable classifiers and more advanced scenarios.

Absolutely. Every engagement includes knowledge transfer sessions and detailed documentation.

Learn more about Purview Data Lifecycle Management

Whether you’re deploying retention policies for the first time or expanding an existing Microsoft Purview implementation, Mobile Mentor can help you build a compliant, defensible, and scalable records management strategy.