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SharePoint Online Site Classification- Any early guidance or references?
Does anyone have any guidance or references to how site classification will be implemented for SharePoint Online sites? It is looking like classifications will first have to be set up in AzureAD for the Office 365 tenant and then somehow applied to existing and new sites, along with some manner of managing classifications- e.g. Ooops, this site isn't low business impact (LBI), it is actually high business impact (HBI).
I ask because I must manage all of my organization's sites and right now the only method we have for "classification" is applying a background watermark. This is far from ideal since any site administrator can blow away the watermark by changing the site theme. Also, our governance allows unique permissions down to the list/library level, so we would love to be able to classify a list/library differently than the site. One business case is a team working on an annual report. Everyone is contributing, but only a few are to have access to the financial numbers/charts/tables up until a few weeks before publication.
The only reference I can easily find is: Enhanced conditional access controls, encryption controls and site classification in SharePoint and OneDrive
https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/enhanced-conditional-access-controls-encryption-controls-and-site-classification-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/
FYI: Our organization has turned off Groups and has no forseeable plan to use them given the lack of management controls. So I'm only interested in SharePoint Online sites.
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- If I'm not mitaken, Site Clasiffication relies on Groups so if you have disabled Groups you are not going to be able to use it
Not all sites are assocated with Groups. So, if the Groups feature needs to be enabled for site classification, is classification going to be limited to only sites associated with groups?
- To be more precises: Sites clasiffication is a feature of Modern Team Sites that currently are linked to Groups
