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Office 365 Sensitivity Labels: Auto-Label and Updated Client
More Progress towards Enabling Sensitivity Labels Along with announcing its intention to include licenses for Information Protection in Office 365 E3 and E5 plans, Microsoft made further progress to...
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Unified Labelling Version of Azure Information Protection Client Now...
Reduced Confusion as Everyone Waits for Native Support in Office Clients As is the nature of the Microsoft cloud, the preview version of the Azure Information Protection client (unified labeling...
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Handling Sensitivity Label Mismatches in SharePoint Online
Sensitivity Label Support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Microsoft recently made support for sensitivity labels in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business generally available....
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Power BI Support for Sensitivity Labels Now Generally Available
Sensitivity Labels Spreading Across Office 365 Sensitivity labels are rapidly spreading across Office 365 workloads. They are now supported by: Office desktop applications.Office online...
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Use Office 365 DLP Policies to Block External Access to Sensitive Documents
Exploit Sensitivity Labels to Protect Confidential Material Microsoft doesn’t currently support the detection of sensitive content by Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies based on a label assigned to...
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Reading PDFs Protected by Sensitivity Labels with the Edge Browser
Useful Feature in Chromium-based Edge Browser In December 2018, Adobe and Microsoft announced support in Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files protected with Microsoft Information Protection. An older...
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Exports of Exchange Online Search Results Now Decrypt Attachments
Decryption of Exported Documents Office 365 notification MC225739 (3 November) reports that eDiscovery exports will support decryption for attachments in Exchange (Online). The pointer to the...
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Sensitivity Labels Control External Sharing for SharePoint Online Sites
New Label UI Rolling Out Previewed earlier this year, Microsoft has extended the container management settings for sensitivity labels to include control over the external sharing setting for...
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How to Report Audit Events Generated for Sensitivity Labels
Understand How People Use Sensitivity Labels to Protect Office Documents If you enable support for sensitivity labels in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business (and you should), most of the...
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How to Use Sensitivity Labels to Protect Teams Meeting Recordings
Possible to Protect Sensitive Meeting Recordings with Some Downsides Although it’s listed as one of the applications which support sensitivity labels, the only way that Stream uses sensitivity labels...
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How to Decrypt SharePoint Online Documents Using PowerShell and the Graph API
Unlocking Protected SharePoint Documents In my article about how to decrypt SharePoint Online documents with PowerShell, I explained how to use the Unlock-SPOSensitivityLabelEncryptedFile cmdlet to...
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How Sensitivity Labels Control the Sharing Capability of SharePoint Online Sites
Two Notifications Mark a Special Update A feature so good that it requires two identical message center notifications must be worthwhile. Such is the case for the ability of sensitivity labels to...
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Understand Licensing for Microsoft 365 Information Protection and Governance
Many Recent Changes Information Protection and Governance is an area Microsoft has invested in heavily for the past few years. Many new features constantly appear, such as native support for...
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New PowerShell Controls Available to Control Default Sharing Links for...
Builds on Existing Control Over Site Sharing Capability The container management settings of sensitivity labels can control the sharing capability of SharePoint Online sites. If you create a label and...
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How to Use Azure AD Authentication Contexts with Microsoft 365 Sensitivity...
Preview Feature to Help Protect Most Confidential SharePoint Online Sites Adding to their container management capabilities, a preview feature for sensitivity labels demonstrate how to use Azure AD...
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SharePoint Online Document Library UI Refreshed for Teams Private Channels
Initial Confusion from Garbled Message Center Notification When Microsoft published message center MC261534 on June 11, they confused many people. The text was imprecise and inaccurate, starting off...
View ArticleAn Insight Into Microsoft Information Protection, Licenses, and Certificates
Learning from the MIP Pros If you’re interested in Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), you should consider joining the Yammer group where the MIP team share information about how their products...
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SharePoint Admin Center Absorbs OneDrive for Business Management
Personal and Organization Document Management for Microsoft 365 I don’t know why Microsoft ever thought that it was wise or desirable to consider SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business as two...
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Some Microsoft 365 Features Highlighted at Fall Ignite 2021 You Can Use Now
Discovering Some Nuggets from Microsoft’s Coverage It’s been a busy week for anyone following the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as Microsoft released a slew of blog posts and announcements to support...
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Synchronizing Sensitivity Labels to Update SharePoint Online Sites
Investigating Unlabeled SharePoint Sites Microsoft is fond of equipping its administrative consoles with cards containing insights which administrators might action. Yesterday, I noticed that the...
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Meet Office 365 for IT Pros at the European Collaboration Summit 2021
First In-Person Event Since 2019 The last in-person event I spoke at was the European SharePoint Conference in Prague in December 2019. Much has happened since, but as society gradually recovers from...
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Microsoft Closes Gap to Enable Mandatory Labeling of Existing Documents
Office Apps Check for Sensitivity Label When Opening Both New and Old Documents Message center notification MC305436 (December 15, Microsoft 365 roadmap item 88515) informing tenants that sensitivity...
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Unexpected Announcement at a Curious Time In an unexpected twist just as people were leaving for the holiday period, Microsoft announced on December 21 that, effective January 1, 2022, the Microsoft...
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How to Create an Auto-Label Retention Policy Based on Sensitivity Labels
Making Sure Confidential Documents are Retained By their very nature, sensitivity labels are intended to mark documents and files as containing important information. With this thought in mind, it...
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How to Protect Messages Sent to Dynamic Distribution Lists
Seeking Protection Against Forwarding A question came in about the best way for internal email to be protected against external sharing. The company in question uses dynamic distribution lists for...
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How Default Sensitivity Labels Work with SharePoint Online Document Libraries
Preview Feature Expected to be Generally Available Later in 2022 According to a LinkedIn post by Microsoft Principal Program Manager Sanjoyan Mustafi, administrators will soon be able to assign...
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Keeping Confidential Outlook Email Private
Privacy and Protection Might Not be Enough MVP Ingo Gegenwarth’s post about Outlook and private items is a good example of the problems which arise when user assumptions running into software...
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Microsoft 365 Data Loss Prevention and Encrypted Message Type Exceptions
Handling Encryption, Signing, and Permission Controlled Email A recent question in the Microsoft Technical Community about Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies covered the difference between encrypted,...
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Mobile Co-Authoring for Protected Documents
Public Preview Available Now Message center notification MC337330 (February 28) announces co-authoring for protected documents on both iOS and Android mobile devices. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 88512...
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How Working with Protected PDFs in Microsoft 365 is Becoming Easier
The Long Road to Progress Sensitivity labels do an excellent job of protecting Office documents, largely because the applications include the necessary code to apply and access encrypted documents....
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How to Create Mailbox Exclusions for Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Label Policies
PowerShell is the Only Way to Create Policy Exclusions In most cases, organizations want to publish sensitivity labels to all users. This makes sense because it means that everyone has access to the...
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The Odd Azure AD Selected Visibility is Not Allowed Problem
Azure AD Admin Center Doesn’t Respect Sensitivity Label Settings Last June, I tested the preview of nested dynamic Azure AD groups and encountered an odd “Per label policy, the selected visibility is...
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Analyzing Document Label Mismatch Audit Records
Document Label Mismatches With Sensitivity Labels of Different Priorities Two years ago, Microsoft launched support for sensitivity labels in SharePoint Online, including the ability to detect a...
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Teams Meeting Templates: Helping to Organize Better Meetings
Teams Meeting Templates are part of Teams Premium Now that Microsoft considers Teams Premium to be generally available, it’s appropriate to investigate some of the functionality enabled by the new...
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Planning Sensitivity Labels for Meetings
Making Plans to Introduce Sensitivity Labels for Meetings I previously wrote about how sensitivity labels protect meetings created in Outlook and OWA and the way that labels can apply settings to...
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Microsoft Information Protection Upgrades to Enhanced Encryption Algorithm
AES256-CBC Will Protect Office Documents and Email Last year, some researchers expressed worries that the AES 128 ECB (Electronic Cookbook Mode) cipher used by Microsoft Information Protection to...
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Find Out Where Users Get Sensitivity Labels From
Analyze Sensitivity Label Policies to See Who Gets What Labels A question in the Microsoft Technical Community asked about the best method to find which sensitivity label policies are assigned to...
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SharePoint Administrators Can’t Update Sensitivity Labels for Document Libraries
No Good Reason why SharePoint Limits Administrator Access to Document Libraries A reader asked if a programmatic method exists to set the default sensitivity label for a SharePoint Online document...
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How to Limit the Creation of New Teams to Private Access
Using Container Management Sensitivity Labels to Force Specific Teams Privacy Mode Yesterday, I wrote about how to control the creation of Microsoft 365 groups (and teams) using Microsoft Graph...
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Microsoft Details Compliance Support for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Compliance through Sensitivity Labels, Audit Events, and Compliance Records Now that the fuss around the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot (November 1) is fading, organizations face the...
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The Question of Information Protection Sublabels
Decision to Use Sublabels is an Implementation Issue One of the topics that should be discussed before the implementation of sensitivity labels in a Microsoft 365 tenant before the creation and...
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Loop App Adds More Support for Sensitivity Labels
Using the Loop App to Protect Pages with Sensitivity Labels Message center notification MC923176 (1 November 2024, Microsoft 365 roadmap item 111225) announces that workspace owners can apply...
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SharePoint Online Adds Support for Sensitivity Labels with User Defined...
Opens Access to UDP-Protected Files to Search, eDiscovery, and DLP – but not Copilot Originally announced in preview in an August 1, 2023 technical community post, message center notification...
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Use Data Loss Prevention to Stop Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from Processing...
DLP Policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot to Restrict Access to Sensitive Documents Ever since the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot in March 2023, organizations have struggled to stop the AI consuming...
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Use Auto-Label Policies to Protect Old Files from Copilot
Combining Auto-Label Policies, Trainable Classifiers, Sensitivity Labels, and DLP to Stop Copilot Accessing Old But Still Confidential Files I’ve been on the TEC 2025 European Roadshow this week....
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Licensing Auto-Label Policies for Sensitivity Labels
Peeling Away the Layers to Find the Cheapest Auto-Label Option Last week, I discussed how to use auto-label policies to apply sensitivity labels to old files in SharePoint Online sites to prevent...
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Quest Tool Migrates Protected Email and Files Between Tenants
Solves the Problem of Migrating Data Protected by Sensitivity Labels I’ve worked as an advisor with Quest for several years, but I had no indication that they would launch a product to migrate content...
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New Outlook and OWA Control for Viewing Protected Email
Force Two-Click Confirmation to View Email Protected by Sensitivity Labels Recently I noticed that OWA behaved differently when previewing email protected by sensitivity labels. Because it’s an online...
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