ESPC20 is coming, only 2 weeks to go!

Join me for my ESPC20 Online session: Microsoft Information Protection Getting Started, Keep in Control of your Content on October 14th 11:30 - 12:15. There is a clear industry trend in the security landscape that 88% of the organizations are no longer confident they detect and prevent loss of sensitive data. This is a biggest...

Be aware, Office 2013 and Office 365 end of support after October 13, 2020

Microsoft has been talking about this upcoming change already for a while. But it is good to be aware of this, because a lot of companies are still on Office 2013 and potentially use or are about to use Office 365. Microsoft is not actively blocking Office 2013 client, but you will run into blockers...

Simplify managing your sprint capacity in Azure DevOps with the Team Calendar extension

Me and my team are right in the middle of a sprint and I wanted to have more insights into our burndown. This was a bit hard because not all of us are working on the same days on the project. Some have full capacity for the sprint, some only a couple of days. See...

November 2019 release SharePoint Client Browser

Keeping the SharePoint Client Browser community tool keeps up to date with the releases of SharePoint Client Side Objects Model (CSOM) has been on my To Do list for way too long. No more waiting to support the latest CSOM for SharePoint Online: This month is supporting the October 2019 SharePoint CSOM release. Updated CSOM release: SharePoint Online CSOM...

The Sensitivity labels are being supported by most of the Office clients nowadays, want to know which capabilities are supported on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Web. Check out this Microsoft Docs article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-office-apps.

Improved support of Sensitivity labels in Office ProPlus and Office Online

Earlier this month the AIP team released Sensitivity labels for Word, PowerPoint & Excel and Sensitivity labels GA for Outlook Web (Office 365). But it seems they have more! Which makes sense because we are missing Outlook on Windows support. It's not entirely a surprise, the Microsoft 365 Roadmap already indicated "Rolling out" for feature ID...

Last Friday the Azure Information Protection team announced they released (GA) Sensitivity labels for Outlook Web Access (OWA). More details found on https://support.office.com/en-us/article/apply-sensitivity-labels-to-your-documents-and-email-within-office-2f96e7cd-d5a4-403b-8bd7-4cc636bae0f9.

Kick start your Sensitivity labels

I regularly get the question if I have a baseline for Sensitivity labels. Although this is very much depending on your needs and requirements, I'm using a set for demo purpose which can help you kick start your content classification. Important to keep in mind with Sensitivity labels is, it is key to have proper...

Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling client having issues with policy updates?

This week the Azure Information Protection team announced there is an issue in the current AIP SDK with regards to refreshing the policy. Details on the issue around the root cause and work around can be found on Tech Community. The issue is also impacting the Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling client Only the issue...

Office 365 & SharePoint Connect 2019

Last week we enjoyed one more time the Office 365 & SharePoint Connect conference in beautiful Haarlem, The Netherlands. Below the church which is right across the conference center and can't be missed! My session title covered Azure Information Protection and Azure Conditional Access. Although I covered more because the Information Protection product suite is...