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Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (replaces Azure Security Engineer Associate / AZ-500) SC-500 · Domain 4: Manage and monitor security posture

Microsoft Purview Audit for investigations

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

When a security incident involves Microsoft 365, you need to know what an account actually did: which files it downloaded, which mailbox rules it created, whether it shared content externally or accessed a Teams chat. Microsoft Purview Audit provides that record through the unified audit log, which captures user and administrator activities across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Entra ID, Power BI, Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions and many other services.

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