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How should I enable external collaboration on encrypted Office files
If there is an individual document in SharePoint that I'd like an external party to collaborate on, how can I use sensitivity labels to protect access to the file? In this case, the external party is...
Even in email, you will have to identify the recipient and then encrypted email will use the recipient list (all the names in the "to:" field) as part of the encryption key.
In your use case, you could potentially create a label that will be encrypted and then can opened by specific partner organisations. To do this, you will need to Assign the permission to a Known domain.
You'll have to repeat the process if your users require to do this to multiple partner domains.
I suppose the process is more straight-forward with email as you are generally encrypting a copy of any document that is being sent. Where-as when you are granting external access to the document stored in SharePoint, the encryption will impact anyone with existing access to the file.
Still, it seems challenging for end users to collaborate externally on encrypted content.
Still, it seems challenging for end users to collaborate externally on encrypted content.