Sensitivity Labels

Using sensitivity labels for protecting labeled content in Microsoft 365 online apps

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This week is all about Microsoft Edge. More specifically, this week is all about even using sensitivity labels for protecting Microsoft 365 online apps in Microsoft Edge. Sensitivity labels on itself are nothing new, using it in Microsoft 365 online apps not either, but support for using it in Outlook on the web is. The basics of sensitivity labels are still the same. After applying a sensitivity label, the IT administrator can prevent actions like copying, pasting, taking screenshots, forwarding emails, replying to emails, and more. Initially that functionality was only available in Microsoft 365 desktop applications, and now slowly moved towards Microsoft 365 online apps via Microsoft Edge. Within Microsoft Edge, that same behavior can now be enforced. Of course that does require the …

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Using sensitivity labels to manage access to SharePoint sites on unmanaged devices

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This week is a follow-up on my post of a few weeks ago about accessing SharePoint and OneDrive content on unmanaged devices. That post showed how to use the SharePoint admin center to manage the organiztion-wide access control for unmanaged devices and showed how to use PowerShell to manage the site-level access control for unmanaged devices. This post will show something similar to that PowerShell configuration, in a way that this will also provide a method for managing access for unmanaged devices on a site-level. The main difference is that this post will look at a new (currently in public preview) feature that is added to sensitivity labels. That feature enables the administrator to configure Site and group settings for sensitivity labels. Within that configuration …

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