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Public Preview: “Default” label for a document library in SharePoint Online

Sanjoyan Mustafi's avatar
Sanjoyan Mustafi
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Jul 29, 2022
Before I describe the "how" let me describe the "why" first. Today, compliance admin can set a "default" label for users. Within Microsoft, we have a default label called "General" that is published ...
Updated Jul 28, 2022
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SreerajRamachandran's avatar
SreerajRamachandran
Copper Contributor
Mar 05, 2024

Though I see the usefulness of this feature, a more useful feature would have been to have an option in the Site settings to set the default label to be auto applied to "any document library" created in the site.

 

Currently for sensitive sites, we are using Purview to automatically apply default labels to any documents uploaded into any document library within the site.

 

This is cumbersome, as the site collection owner needs to remember to let the compliance / infosec team know that auto labelling is needed.