Category Archives: Azure Information Protection

Support for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels Now in Office ProPlus for Windows

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The September update of the Office ProPlus monthly channel delivers support for Office 365 sensitivity labels without the need to install the Azure Information Protection client. This is a step forward to make it easier for Office 365 users to be able to protect their most confidential information with encryption. More work remains to be done to upgrade the Office Online apps (including OWA), Outlook Mobile, and SharePoint and OneDrive. Will all this happen before Ignite?

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Exiting Office 365 with Your Encrypted Messages and Documents

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The Azure Information Protection team recently published an interesting post about making a “cloud exit.” In other words, how to move your encrypted data out of a cloud service like Office 365. As it turns out, this is feasible if you plan. But how many organizations have even thought about how they might decrypt protected content?

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Office Apps to Get Native Support for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels

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Microsoft says that the Office desktop Windows apps will have native support for Office 365 sensitivity labels in the second half of 2019. Native support means that users won’t need to install the Azure Information Protection (AIP) client to apply labels. However, if they want to continue using the AIP client (because it is more functional), they need to deploy a system registry update.

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Encrypted Office 365 Content is a Wake-Up Call for ISVs

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The signs are that Office 365 will store more encrypted content as time goes by. But ISV products might not be able to process that content because they cannot decrypt it. All of which creates the prospect that you might archive or move data somewhere only to discover later that it is inaccessible. And that’s a bad thing.

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Using the Office 365 Audit Log to Track Retention Labels

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Office 365 Classification Audits
Office 365 Classification Audits

Office 365 allows users to apply classification labels to SharePoint and OneDrive documents and to Exchange messages. But after you’ve done the work to create a nice set of classification labels as part of your data governance framework, it’s good to know that people are using the labels. Here’s how to find out.

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Using Office 365 Sensitivity Labels

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Office 365 with Teams

Sensitivity labels allow Office 365 tenants to encrypt messages and documents very easily. That is, as long as you have applications that understand labels. A preview version of the AIP client integrates a Sensitivity button in the Office desktop applications, but we must wait for native integration across desktop, web, and mobile clients.

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Unifying Office 365 Sensitivity Labels with Azure Information Protection

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Sensitivity Labels
Sensitivity Labels

The new sensitivity labels available in Office 365 bring marking and protection functionality for Exchange and SharePoint that was previously only available with Azure Information Protection. In this article, we consider how to migrate AIP labels to Office 365 so that users can encrypt their way to happiness.

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Dealing with Protected Documents Found by Office 365 Content Searches

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Office 365 content searches can find all sorts of information, but they cannot decrypt protected files in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business sites. This prompts the question of how to deal with protected files exported by a search. As it turns out, the combination of a rights management superuser and some PowerShell makes short work of unprotecting files so that they can be read by all.

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Protecting Files in Office 365 Document Libraries Against Guest Users

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Office 365 Groups and Teams support guest users, who enjoy full access to the SharePoint document libraries. You might not want this, because not every document in those libraries are suitable for sharing with guests. The question is how to collaborate with guests while maintaining some control over information. Rights management seems like a good way to accomplish the task.

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Consumers Gain from Enterprise-Class Office 365 Features

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Outlook.com (premium) now boasts two new protected email features taken directly from Exchange Online. It’s an example of how the shared Office 365 infrastructure enables Microsoft to make functionality available to users of its consumer and enterprise platforms as they want. OneDrive Restore is another example. In both cases, the features aren’t available to free seats.

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