Azure Information Protection Status Update – August 2017

First published on CloudBlogs on Aug 30, 2017
Hi Everyone, and welcome to this month’s posting from the AIP team to ensure you always know what we are working on, what’s in the current releases of AIP and any other information that we can include to help you stay current. With that, I will hand over to https://aka.ms/adhall who leads our Customer and Partner Experience team. Dan. Hello again to our Azure Information Protection community! We encourage you to visit https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/07/31/azure-information-protection-status-update-july-2017/ in case you missed it, and of course we’re listening to your https://www.yammer.com/askipteam and https://msip.uservoice.com/ . Speaking of which, it’s been a busy month with updates for admins and developers, so let’s take a look.

For Admins:

• We have completed the move to https://portal.azure.com/ , and admins can now edit templates linked to labels. Once you click on “Edit Template” the template becomes protection attributes of the label.  More information about this new capability and templates in the Azure portal: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/configure-policy-templates .

• The ability to activate the protection service (Azure RMS) in this portal has moved to General Availability. Instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/activate-azure
• We have added the ability to localize legacy RMS templates. You can import and export on the “Languages” page to manage translations for RMS templates, in the same way as you can do this for labels. Instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/configure-policy-languages .
• We have added the ability to edit the default templates. You can now manage the default templates like other templates, including localization. We have translated the default policy to all languages that are supported by Azure Information Protection (English +29 other languages). Note that only new tenants will get the translations automatically (we don’t want to change your existing configurations!) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/configure-policy-templates#default-templates .
• A new feature, user defined permissions, moves to public preview. More information in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/configure-policy-protection#to-configure-a-label-for-rights-management-protection .
• We have now extended our automation capabilities (automatic classification) from 5 patterns to over 80 patterns (including 40 patterns relevant for EU GDPR) by moving to the Office DLP rules. More information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/deploy-use/configure-policy-classification .

• We also fixed some bugs:
  • Disallow creation of templates with same name, that cause customers to see templates with “_0” suffixes.
  • Performance fix for signup

Client:

• The current GA client is 1.7.210.0
• The latest Preview client now posted is 10.0.52.0

For Developers:

• New in the RMS 4.2.5 SDK for Mobile
  • Improved performance for https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43673&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all and https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=43674 SDK
  • Bitcode support in iOS SDK
  • Telemetry interface

These updates were heavily influenced by your great feedback. Your feedback allowed us to ship new features, verify bug fixes, and generally improved our product. We thank you for this ongoing engagement!

Upcoming milestones:

• Download and test with the https://aka.ms/aipclient .
• Our next GA level client is planned to be released next month. You can download and deploy the https://aka.ms/aipclient today.

Other things to be aware of:

• The https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/rmsprotection/?view=azureipps is moving to End Of Life on February 10, 2018. This functionality is replaced by the Azure Information Protection client.

As we let you know previously, we have adopted https://msip.uservoice.com/ as a platform for you to tell us what we should be working on, and I would ask and encourage you all to take a look and place your votes to help us understand the priorities you have.

Summary

We hope this helps you with your testing, planning, and deployments and we welcome your commentary and feedback. We also know this can be a lot to absorb, and we are here to help! Engage with us on https://www.yammer.com/askIPteam/#/home or https://twitter.com/thermsguy and let us know what’s important to you by voting on https://msip.uservoice.com/ ! It really is very easy to get started with AIP. We have a lot of information available to help you, from great documentation to engaging with us via Yammer and e-mail. What are you waiting for? Get to it!

• Download the new unified client from our https://aka.ms/aipclient
• https://portal.office.com/Signup/Signup.aspx?OfferId=87dd2714-d452-48a0-a809-d2f58c4f68b7 and kick the tires
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/azure-information-protection about Information Protection
• Get deep technical and scenario https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/

Thank you, Dan Plastina on behalf of our enthusiastic Azure IP team. Twitter: https://twitter.com/danplastina Useful links: https://aka.ms/DanPlastina (PDF)