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Do I need to republish Label Policies after updating Sensitivity Labels?
keithSC What is your definition of many labels? if they are scoped to different groups of users, then that will be ok, but each user should not be seeing many labels, 4 is ideal, with a few more in some cases.
You need multiple label policies only if users need different labels or different policy settings. Aim to have as few label policies as possible — it's not uncommon to have just one label policy for the organization. see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/create-sensitivity-labels?view=o365-worldwide#create-and-configure-sensitivity-labels
Thanks for your reply Dean_Gross
We currently have 5x Sensitivity Labels:
- Public
- General
- Personal
- Confidential
- Highly Confidential
Along with 'test labels' which are to be removed (by unpublishing)
We had approx 6x Policies covering different label applications, but as you say 1 Policy should be adequate and I am moving my organisation to this currently.
An example of what I hope to achieve;
Extend the label Confidential using 2 sub-labels:
- Confidential - Internal
- Confidential - External
Internal limited to domain users.
External will allow external sharing, but limited editing/forwarding etc.
Once I have edited the label, and for future tweaks, will my 1x Policy need to be updated/republished/modified or do the changes automatically sync through?
Many thanks!!