Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Premium
Answer: eDiscovery Premium requires qualifying Microsoft 365 or Purview compliance licensing for users who benefit from advanced custodian, collection, review-set, and analytics capabilities; add-ons require their underlying prerequisites.
Administrator playbook
Decide, verify, and document
Use the curated answer as a starting point, then prove the outcome against the target tenant or device.
What it means
- Standard and Premium eDiscovery capabilities differ
- Compliance add-ons convey rights only when their prerequisite licenses are also present
- Licensing can depend on custodians, data sources, and benefiting users
What to check next
- List the Premium-only features the case will use
- Confirm prerequisite and add-on licenses for the covered population
- Check the current Microsoft 365 compliance licensing comparison before purchase
Verify success
- Confirm the SKU is assigned to every benefiting user or covered device.
- Confirm the required service plan is enabled, not merely present in the tenant.
- Re-test the exact feature after license propagation and record the result.
Escalate when
- Microsoft documentation and the tenant SKU/service-plan view disagree.
- The feature remains unavailable after assignment and normal propagation.
- A purchase or renewal decision depends on contract-specific product terms.
Copyable admin briefAnswer, next checks, source, and review date
List subscribed SKUs
Get-MgSubscribedSku | Select-Object SkuPartNumber,ConsumedUnits,PrepaidUnitsRead-only. Confirms tenant inventory; it does not prove that a service plan is enabled for a specific user.
Evidence to preserve
- Workload
- Microsoft Purview
- Tier
- eDiscovery Premium
- Verify
- Current compliance licensing comparison
- Exact feature and workload
- Users or devices benefiting from it
- Assigned SKU and enabled service plans
- Tenant region and purchase channel