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Plan and implement the Purview Information Protection client

Plan and implement the Purview Information Protection client

The Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client, often called the Unified Labeling Client or AIP Client, is a software agent we install on endpoints to enable sensitivity labeling and protection. In planning its deployment, we need to consider the scope of deployment. So which users and machines need the client? Typically, this will be most or all of the workers you have on Windows. The client also has a Mac version, although on macOS the latest Office apps do have built-in label support, and mobile devices will rely on built-in app capabilities. There's no client for them. We also have to verify that all users targeted have at least the necessary license to be able to use the client features. This is a minimum an E3 for most users, and E5 gives advanced features. Without the appropriate license, the client would only operate in a viewer-only mode. The client supports all in-support versions of Windows and above, and so we need to make sure that devices meet that. It does support…

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