Microsoft has announced that it is retiring its Purview User Data Search case tool as of August 30, 2023, according to a report on Petri.com, which publishes The Unofficial Microsoft 365 Changelog, a list of changelog entries usually only available to admins.
The functionality will be merged with eDiscovery Standard, and previous cases created will be available in the eDiscovery Standard solution going forward.
The log entry noted, “Today, Microsoft has the User data search case tool which helps to create a case for investigation of a Data Subject Rights (DSR) request. The user data search tool has built-in search option. However, with the increase in DSRs, users of the User data search might want more detailed search capabilities. With the eDiscovery Standard solution, you can control the search capabilities and add more variables as per the requirements. With the intent to ease the search and manage the capabilities, Microsoft is merging the eDiscovery Standard and User data search.”
