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Automatically applying labels to sites/site collections
The answer is yes. What you're looking for are classification labels (see https://www.petri.com/office-365-data-governance). You can apply these to a document library in three ways:
1. Make it the default that a label applies to all items in the library (and sub-folders).
2. Select each item and add the appropriate label.
3. Use an auto-label policy to find the documents you want to protect and apply a label. This requires E5 licenses.
I suspect that option 1 is what you need.
To Dean's point, a gap currently exists between Office 365 classification labels and those used by Azure Information Protection (AIP). I suspect, but don't know, that the gap will close and we might hear about this at Ignite.
The answer is yes. What you're looking for are classification labels (see https://www.petri.com/office-365-data-governance). You can apply these to a document library in three ways:
1. Make it the default that a label applies to all items in the library (and sub-folders).
2. Select each item and add the appropriate label.
3. Use an auto-label policy to find the documents you want to protect and apply a label. This requires E5 licenses.
I suspect that option 1 is what you need.
To Dean's point, a gap currently exists between Office 365 classification labels and those used by Azure Information Protection (AIP). I suspect, but don't know, that the gap will close and we might hear about this at Ignite.
TonyRedmonddo you know if there is a way to automatically enable the classification labels in many libraries that have been migrated from SP on-premises?
Auto-label policies are the only automatic method, but you'd have to be able to identify the target documents with a keyword. I think you might have to edit the settings of each library to set the right label as the default for all existing and new documents.
With Auto-apply label, can we use a wildcard "*" with the option of "Apply label to content that contains specific words or phrases"? This is required to blanket SharePoint to have the base retention policy in place.
And if that is possible, would the user able to selectively change the labels on the documents which were auto-applied by the wildcard rule?
