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Configure and manage publishing policies for sensitivity labels

Configure and manage publishing policies for sensitivity labels - Microsoft 365 Tutorial

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Configure and manage publishing policies for sensitivity labels

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After creating sensitivity labels and configuring their settings, we need to make them available to users. Just creating a label doesn't automatically deploy it. This is something people get wrong time and time again when they're first using Purview. You have to publish a label after it's been created. Think of a publishing policy as a package that says, deploy these labels to these people with these additional rules. And you might ask, why the extra step? Well, it gives us flexibility. We might not want all labels to be visible to everybody. So for instance, maybe a special top secret label should only be visible to executives. And with a publishing policy, we can target only that group to that label. We can also use it to do a phased rollout. So we could initially publish labels only to the IT department for testing, And then later to all users. So that's kind of why we do it. But in summary, without publishing the label, the labels won't show up in your environment at all. So it's…

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