Comments on: Microsoft is Going to Enable Your Azure Information Protection Features

By: Ramon

Ramon — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:03:41 +0000

Hi Stefan,

Have you ever got an anwer? We have exactly the same question.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:17:32 +0000

Hi everybody,

we have Office 365 Business Premium licenses across the board, and I have now booked a test license of AIP Plan 1 to encrypt our emails. However, it seems like my Outlook App does still not offer this feature. How come? I read above that it does not work with Office 365 Business Edition, but how about Office 365 Business Premium?

By: Cool AIP

Cool AIP — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:59:08 +0000

Hi Pedro,

Yes you are right, Azure Information Protection or AIP is not yet compatible with Office 365 Business Edition.

What you can do to test out the AIP is try a trial of M365 E3 or E5. E3 has manual classification AIP and E5 has automatic classification AIP.

If you will use this M365 trial, uninstall all Office 365 in your PC first, then install this M365 e3 or E5. This way, you will be able to use the full potential of Office 365 E3 and E5 plus the AIP Plan 1 (E3 only) and Plan 2 (E5). E5 also includes AIP Plan 1 and 2.

Let me know how it goes

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:40:56 +0000

In reply to Rick Cook.

Correct!

I have Business Premium licenses deployed to everyone, recently we are stepping up our Office 365 game and looking into Identity Protection.

I trialed Enterprise + Mobility E5 assigned it to myself alongside Business Premium, used an Azure guide to setup policies and download the client, I was excited to see the ‘Protect’ options in my Word but low and behold I cannot use my Azure policies because my Office is 365 Business not Pro…

Confusing I then trialed Microsoft 365 which has all the features and assigned that to myself but I still get Office 365 Business desktop app’s not Pro so how in the hell does all the identity protection stuff work with this license…

Not documented

By: Rick Cook

Rick Cook — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:54:42 +0000

Yes the user has the ability to encrypt, but unless they have Office Pro, the labels used for encrypting an email are not in the client application. They can use Outlook on line to encrypt. However, this is a cumbersome if they normally use the desktop client. To me this a MS bait and switch, in that you can pay for the AIP encryption but you can’t actually use in on the desktop unless you pay for the premium package. Additionally this is not well documented.