Azure Information Protection Premium P1

Hi NisChristiansen 

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.

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