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Abutalhakhan
May 28, 2025Copper Contributor
Microsoft Purview Encryption on Third Party Apps
Hello Community, I’m working with a desktop-based correspondence management system (CMS) application and would like to apply encryption to the documents that are being created, handled, or stored by...
vicwingsing
Jun 12, 2025Iron Contributor
The specific SDK that you are looking for is this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/develop/overview?source=recommendations
and this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/information-protection/develop/concept-apis-use-cases
On a high-level, you'll need to do the following:
1. Choose the right SDK layer: It's either File, Policy or Protection
2. Ensure that you're users who will be interacting with the file is either Microsoft E3 or E5 licensed user
3. Build your app using the right SDK (I think you are looking for the Protection SDK)