The KQL editor is a relatively new feature in Microsoft 365 that makes it easier to compose queries to find email and documents in content searches, core eDiscovery, and advanced eDiscovery. Although it’s not perfect, the KQL editor helps compliance managers to perfect queries and resolve syntax errors. Human intelligence is still needed to make sure that everything works!
The Microsoft 365 compliance center has a new content search UI. The new UI is prettier than before, but it’s also slower and more buggy. After several years of effort to develop content searches, you’d expect Microsoft to do better. A lot betterr. Unhappily, the beauty of the new interface seems to have distracted the engineers from the problems that become all too apparent when you try to use content searches to do real work. What, if any testing, was done to validate the new UI is unknown.
Microsoft 365 eDiscovery features will respect documented limits from May 10. The changes are likely made to conserve resources consumed by searches against the massive amounts of data now found in Office 365 tenants. The changes probably won’t affect eDiscovery investigators except in reminding everyone that the items shown in search preview are only a representative sample of what can be found by a full search.