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Classification of data is always an important factor for any organization to protect their data and to make sure only the right people have the access to the right documents. Couple of years back we went through the Azure Information Protection on this blog through which we can classify the sensitivity of any organization documents and leverage them on the Microsoft 365 Applications. Previously in Microsoft 365 only had the built in retention labels through which only the classification of the documents was possible. During this time in order to apply more protection like auto classification and enforce the policy the Azure information Classic Client and Azure Information Protection was utilized.

Its very important to note at this point that the Azure Information Protection Classic client and the Label Management from the Azure Portal are deprecated from March 31 2021.

It has been a quite long time that Microsoft supports sensitivity labels in addition to retention labels, so all action can be completed from the same location from Microsoft Information protection in the Compliance Center. Microsoft recommends to utilize to new Unified labeling and upgrade the clients to new unified labeling client.