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Azure Information Protection Premium P1
Here is a good overview from Microsoft about this:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/announcements/2024-february#11
Azure Information Protection (AIP) is on a modernization and integration journey. The goal of this journey is to provide an advanced classification, labeling, and protection stack for our customers with Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft 365.
Customers were notified of the upcoming retirement of the AIP Unified Labeling add-in for Office in April 2024 via message center posts in April 2023, and we continue to encourage them to migrate to the equivalent / superior capabilities Information Protection features that are built in to Microsoft 365.
As part of this journey, partners and customers can no longer purchase new standalone subscriptions for AIP P1 as of January 2024. A Microsoft 365 Partner Community post was published in December 2023.
Why was the Azure Information Protection (AIP) P1 standalone removed from the price list in January 2024?
Removing the AIP P1 standalone from the price list is a step in the journey to migrate customers to subscription plans and offers that include Microsoft Purview Information Protection. AIP was originally built for desktop/on-premises use with a downloaded desktop client. Native labeling, and other classification and protection capabilities that are in AIP are included as part of subscription plans and offers that include Microsoft Purview Information Protection:
- Microsoft 365 E3
- Microsoft 365 E5 Information Protection and Governance
- Microsoft 365 E5
- Office 365 E3
- Office 365 E5
- Enterprise Mobility and Security E3
- Enterprise Mobility and Security E5
- Microsoft 365 F3 and Business Premium
Hi NisChristiansen,
Removing the Azure Information Protection (AIP) P1 standalone from the price list is a step in the journey to migrate customers to subscription plans and offers that include Microsoft Purview Information Protection.
Please review the plan comparisons - Enterprise plans and Business plans.
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Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
- Bumping this thread up. Microsoft needs to understand that many companies (in my case, an MSP providing licensing to hundreds of clients) used the AIP P1 license solely for email encryption (Purview Message Encryption Basic). Because Microsoft is starting this "journey", aka forcing us to more expensive SKUs, we haven't found a good alternative. Pushing our clients to $22.00 Business Premium licenses is not the answer; even going to a EMS E3 for $10.60 is significantly higher than the $3.00 AIP license. Does Microsoft not have a cheaper add-on alternative for Message Encryption?
