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I have created Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft Purview and they have been published. In my dev site, when I go to create a document library, the sensitivity labels that I published are not showing, but they show within Word, etc. Checked all my configurations and not seeing anything unusual.
Any advice or assist would be appreciated.
My license was fine but when working with a tech support engineer, we found that the sensitivity label was original configured with the setting “Let user assign permission” when creating the sensitivity label. According to the Enable sensitivity labels for files in SharePoint and OneDrive, labels with this setting are not available for selection directly in SharePoint or OneDrive. These labels are designed to be applied using Office desktop apps and are not supported for direct application in Office for the web or from within SharePoint document library.
After changing the label's configuration to “Assign permission now”, which means permissions are predefined by the administrators, the label became available in SharePoint. This is because SharePoint and OneDrive only display labels with administrator-defined permissions, allowing users to select them when creating or editing documents.
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My license was fine but when working with a tech support engineer, we found that the sensitivity label was original configured with the setting “Let user assign permission” when creating the sensitivity label. According to the Enable sensitivity labels for files in SharePoint and OneDrive, labels with this setting are not available for selection directly in SharePoint or OneDrive. These labels are designed to be applied using Office desktop apps and are not supported for direct application in Office for the web or from within SharePoint document library.
After changing the label's configuration to “Assign permission now”, which means permissions are predefined by the administrators, the label became available in SharePoint. This is because SharePoint and OneDrive only display labels with administrator-defined permissions, allowing users to select them when creating or editing documents.
Hi everyone, I was able get some help from Microsoft regarding this.
My license was fine but when working with a tech support engineer, we found that the sensitivity label was original configured with the setting “Let user assign permission” when creating the sensitivity label. According to the Enable sensitivity labels for files in SharePoint and OneDrive, labels with this setting are not available for selection directly in SharePoint or OneDrive. These labels are designed to be applied using Office desktop apps and are not supported for direct application in Office for the web or from within SharePoint document library.
After changing the label's configuration to “Assign permission now”, which means permissions are predefined by the administrators, the label became available in SharePoint. This is because SharePoint and OneDrive only display labels with administrator-defined permissions, allowing users to select them when creating or editing documents.
What licenses you have in the dev tenant? You need one of the following:
Feature Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5, Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/F5 Compliance, Microsoft 365 F5 Security and Compliance, Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/F5 Information Protection and Governance Office 365 E5/A5/G5 Apply default sensitivity labeling for SharePoint Document library Yes Yes In addition, there are a set of requirements and limitations that might affect this functionality, as detailed here: Configure a default sensitivity label for a SharePoint document library | Microsoft Learn
Hi VasilMichev I Have the Microsoft 365 E5 license.
Ohh I see, can you confirm if:
“Let users assign permissions…” is turned off
“User access to content expires” is set to Never
No advanced encryption options (Double Key, HYOK, etc.) are enabled.Follow this: Configure a default sensitivity label for a SharePoint document library | Microsoft Learn
Hi , Yes I have all of those settings set correctly.
