Community vs Professional

Useful insight at every edition

Community is not a crippled trial: it provides discovery, inventory, dry-run analysis, reporting and audit. Professional adds persistent configuration and governed advanced operations.

Community

DDC Guardian Community

Get started · No public pricing required

For administrators who need visibility, inventory, recommendations and reports while keeping Microsoft 365 read-only.

  • Discovery, monitoring and inventory
  • Classification recommendations
  • Dynamic site and label reports
  • Discovery capability assessment
  • Reporting, dashboard and audit
  • Dry-run and preview
  • Session-only target selection
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Professional is not an automatic write switch.

Delegated scopes, runtime evidence, configuration, safeguards, explicit confirmation and approval still govern every supported write operation. Purview auto-label policy management is not implemented.

Authoritative feature gating

Verified capability comparison

The table is limited to feature sets and modes confirmed in the current license service, entitlement copy and service gates.

CapabilityCommunityProfessional
DiscoveryAvailableAvailable
MonitoringAvailableAvailable
InventoryAvailableAvailable
Classification recommendationsPreview / dry-runAvailable
Dynamic site and label reportsAvailableAvailable
Discovery capability assessmentAvailableAvailable
ReportingAvailableAvailable
DashboardAvailableAvailable
Local auditAvailableAvailable
Dry-runAvailableAvailable
Persistent configurationSession onlyAvailable
Controlled custom metadata write-backPreview onlyAvailable with safeguards
Remediation workflowsLockedAvailable
Purview readiness matrixDiagnostic viewAvailable
Supported sensitivity-label operationsLockedPrerequisites required
Auto-labeling readinessLockedReadiness only

Community operating model

Read-only toward Microsoft 365

Community keeps configuration session-only and operations in read, preview or dry-run modes.

  • Build and refresh inventory
  • Select temporary analysis targets
  • Analyze and review results
  • Preview metadata recommendations
  • Review permission findings
  • Use reports, dashboard and audit

Professional operating model

Controlled change, not broad permission

Professional adds specific feature entitlements, but service boundaries remain fail-closed.

  • Persist scopes, catalogs, mappings and settings
  • Use controlled metadata write-back
  • Approve and track remediation workflows
  • Assess Purview readiness
  • Use supported sensitivity-label operations when validated
  • Grant and revoke tracked temporary SharePoint access

Commercial clarity

What is intentionally not published

The current project does not establish final public pricing, customer commitments or unsupported commercial proof.

No invented price

Professional pricing is available only through direct contact when CloudSyncDev publishes or agrees it.

No trial deadline

Community is presented as a useful edition, not an expiring or defective trial.

No invented SLA

Support response times and service levels are not promised on this website.

No customer logos

No logo, testimonial, deployment count or customer quote is used without verification.

No benchmark claim

Performance depends on tenant scope, access, content, APIs and local resources.

No write guarantee

Entitlement does not replace Microsoft permissions, platform prerequisites or administrative approval.

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Start with Community visibility or discuss Professional governance needs.