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Auto-apply labels in Security and Compliance Center
Microsoft is usually not enforcing licensing requirements for features, and yes, it's annoying at times. Even more annoying is that some features get enabled by default even when they depend on the license/SKU, but despite how many times we have brought this up, we haven't seen any results.
So you're saying it could work even with an E3 license because it may not be enforced? That's almost worse.
I'm speaking in general terms here, but yes, there are many examples of functionalities that will work even when you have not applied the corresponding license. A basic example is being able to access SPO without a license - everyone in the organization can do so (unless restricted by the site permissions). What's worse is that you can still be flagged for license violations...
Based on my experience some features can get stuck in your tenant if you tried trial of higher plan. E.g. at some point we had E5 trial. It ended and we only had E3 licenses then. But safe links menu still was showing and allowed to create policies. Only when we had problems with safe links and i have filed a support request i was told we are not covered by our license. Although support specialist at first tried to fix our issue, but as nothing helped, just decided to disable safe links for our tenent as we shouldn't have it. We haven't received any note on violation or anything.
wroot- this tenant never had an E5 trial. and another tenant I configured auto-labels on also never had an E5 trial. It's just available to admins to create and it apparently may or may not work. DLP for Exchange is supposed to require an Exchange Online Plan 2 license...but I have a tenant with a Business license (not Enterprise...Business) and they can create and use DLPs in the Security and Compliance Center. Hell, there was one automatically created when we set up the tenant, and it applies to Exchange Online. So it appears that license restrictions are a figment of the imagination. Except, of course Exchange ATP - you don't see that unless you've actually been licensed for it.
