Category: AIP

Azure Information Protection client audit logs are now available in Activity Explorer for existing AIP Analytics customers and this functionality is in public preview. Read more about Activity Explorer audit events at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-classification-activity-explorer?view=o365-worldwide   This preview requires registration via: https://aka.ms/Register-AIPActivityExplorerPublicPreview    

Co-authoring and AutoSave on Microsoft Information Protection-encrypted documents  Client-based automatic and recommended labeling on Mac  Mandatory labeling requiring users to apply a label to their email and documents  Availability of audit label activities in Activity Explorer  Native support for variables and per-app content marking  You can leverage co-authoring using:  Production or test tenant  Microsoft 365 apps with the …

Automatic classification with sensitivity labels emails in transit in Exchange Online  Improved capabilities on top of existing service-based auto-labeling include:  Additional predicates with Exchange Online auto-labeling   Encrypt only and Do Not Forward support Context-based detections Read more about the feature at: Automatically apply a sensitivity label to content in Microsoft 365 – Microsoft 365 Compliance | Microsoft Docs 

Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now respect the Admin policy setting to require users to apply a label to documents and emails on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android (for the Office 365 subscription version of the apps).  The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client supports this configuration that’s also known as mandatory labeling. For labeling built in to Office …

Microsoft has introduced additional support for MIP protected PDF’s in Microsoft Edge. This is currently in preview. What is the feature? If your organization has Microsoft Information Protection enabled, Microsoft Edge could open MIP protected PDF files which were protected in the same tenant seamlessly; across Windows and Mac. The support is now extended to …

AIP UL client 2.11.58 is now GA and available to download https://aka.ms/AIPClient What’s new ? This version includes the following new features, fixes, and enhancements for the unified labeling scanner and client: Scanner usage logging in the Windows event log Scanner diagnostics tool improvements Improved scanner details output Updates for the scanner’s supported information types …

Today, Microsoft announced that AIP UL client 2.11.57 is now GA and available to download https://aka.ms/AIPClient What’s new ? This version includes the following new features, fixes, and enhancements for the unified labeling scanner and client: Scanner usage logging in the Windows event log Scanner diagnostics tool improvements Improved scanner details output Updates for the …

Clarification about audit log improvements introduced in AIP Unified Labeling client 2.8.85, that allow clearer visibility and alignment with Office native audit logs: Audit logs for access events from the unified labeling client are now sent only when users open labeled or protected files, providing a clearer indication of user access. Information types are no …

Microsoft released AIP UL version 2.9.116 This is maintenance release that includes bug fixes only. It will correct bug that I talked about on a previous post : https://thibaultchatiron.fr/2021/02/03/problem-on-the-latest-version-2-9-111-of-the-aip-client/ For reminder, the issue was for the scenarios where users were not able to view protected files as expected in the following scenarios: When protected files …

An issue was identified in the latest GA version in the AIP Viewer and File Explorer in specific scenarios Some users are not able to view protected files in the following scenarios: When protected files are shared with users who don’t have an AIP policy configured, such as external users. This issue occurs only with …

New features for the unified labeling client Track document access and revoke access -> this feature still in public preview Added support for additional sensitive information types AIP UL client and scanner are cleared now for China clouds New features for the unified labeling scanner PowerShell support for disconnected scanner servers Support for NFS repositories …

Label separation control between Files & emails to Site & Groups is Generally Available within the Microsoft 365 Compliance Portal. Read more about it at: Use sensitivity labels with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites – Microsoft 365 Compliance | Microsoft Docs Integration Enabling sensitivity labels for containers means that you can now …

Azure Information Protection labeling and policy management in the Azure portal, as well as the Azure Information Protection classic client, will reach end of life on April-1-2021. Please plan to migrate to unified labeling and upgrade to the unified labeling client. Learn more about the migration or follow this tutorial.

Microsoft summarized what they know about the AIP scanner and share lessons learned while helping their enterprise customers deploy the AIP scanner to production, so that you can avoid possible pitfalls and make your implementation of the AIP scanner easier, faster, more efficient, and get the most out of your investments. In order to read …

Double Key Encryption enables you to protect your highly sensitive data while keeping full control of your encryption key. It uses two keys to protect your data—one key in your control, and a second key is stored securely in Microsoft Azure. Viewing data protected with Double Key Encryption requires access to both keys. Since Microsoft …

Microsoft has identified an issue in latest GA version that impacts AIP Scanner. If you run the scanner in Enforce=On mode and “New label” events are not reported in the central logging when the scanner applies a label on previously not labeled file. The 1ç/07, Microsoft released a hotfix version 2.7.99.0 for this issue on …

General availability of sensitivity labels in Power BI Sensitivity labels provide a simple way to classify critical content in Power BI. They can be applied on datasets, reports, dashboards, and dataflows… Source https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-and/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-information/ba-p/1449183