Lists, in Microsoft Purview, every item currently tagged with a sensitivity or retention label or containing a sensitive information type, together with where it sits. To open those items, an admin needs membership of two role groups: List viewer and Content viewer.
Also called formerly Content explorer, Content explorer.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Purview
Family of Microsoft products for data governance, security and compliance. Its Data Map stores only metadata, such as lineage, schema and classification, never the data itself.
- Retention label
A Microsoft Purview label placed on a single file or message to control how long it is retained, when it is removed, or both; it can also mark the item as a record. Labels are made available through policies that either publish them for people to choose or apply them automatically.
- Sensitive information type
Classifier based on patterns, such as credit card numbers, that policies and labels rely on to spot sensitive content. You can also define custom ones.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- List
Permission on Key Vault secrets allowing a caller to enumerate those in a vault, though their values are not returned.
- Viewer
Holders can look at workspace content and query data via warehouses or SQL analytics endpoints, yet can't change anything. Semantic model RLS and OLS apply to them. It's the lowest-privilege workspace role.
Related terms
- Content Explorer List Viewer
Members of this Purview role group get only the list view in Content explorer and Data explorer: they can see what items exist and where, but not what is inside them.
- Information Protection Investigators
A Purview role group that has everything the Information Protection Analysts group has, and adds content explorer access so members can view what items actually contain.
- Insider Risk Management Investigators
A role group in Insider Risk Management for people who look into cases and alerts, with access to content explorer and forensic evidence captures. Members can also set up notice templates.