(Updated) Microsoft Purview | Audit search: New filters will be available

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Severity normal
Timeline
Start Date April 30, 2024
End Date July 7, 2025
Last Modified January 23, 2025
Services
Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft Purview
Category StayInformed

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Updated January 21, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In Microsoft Purview, audit search provides your organization with access to critical audit log event data, allowing you to gain insight and further investigate user activities. The Microsoft Purview Compliance portal’s audit search UI currently includes several search fields (i.e., date range, activities, workloads, users, etc.) to facilitate the retrieval of relevant logs. With a recent update, we have added four additional fields to the audit search UI.

These four fields are described below:

New filter field Description
Id Unique identifier of an audit record.
UserType The type of user that performed the operation. See the UserType table for details on the types of users.
UserKey Azure Active Directory Object ID in GUID format.
ClientIP The IP address of the device that was used when the activity was logged.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 384092.

When this will happen:

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early April 2025 (previously early February) and expect to complete by late April 2025 (previously early March).

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early May 2025 (previously mid-March) and expect to complete by late May 2025 (previously early April).

How this will affect your organization:

Security admins in your organization who use audit in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal will be able to use these four additional fields to retrieve relevant audit logs.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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