Service that classifies and protects documents in Office apps, applying a single label to each (if several match, the last one in the policy wins). Its classic client has been retired, with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels taking over.
Also called AIP.
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Terms in this definition
- Route table label
Name for a set of route tables in Virtual WAN hubs, used when choosing where routes propagate; Default, for instance, covers the defaultRouteTable of every hub.
- MATCH
Used in WHERE when querying SQL Graph, it describes how to walk from node to node through edge tables, with patterns written like p1-(f1)->p2.
- LAST
Restricted to visual calculations, this DAX function reads a value from the final position along one of the visual's axes. Writing INDEX(-1) gives the same result.
- Exclusions
Scopes taken out of a policy assignment; they can only narrow its coverage, never widen it.
- WINS
Windows Internet Name Service, an old way of resolving NetBIOS names to IP addresses. It is deprecated and should be replaced by DNS.
- Sensitivity labels
Purview's way of classifying, and if needed encrypting, content in Office apps and services. They take over from the classic labels of AIP.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
Related terms
- Microsoft Purview Information Protection
Previously Azure Information Protection; applies sensitivity labels and encryption to email and documents.
- Microsoft Purview Information Protection client
A client that runs only on Windows and took over from the Azure Information Protection unified labeling client. It provides a labelling tool in File Explorer, an encrypted-file viewer, a PowerShell module and the scanner, but nothing inside Office apps.