PowerShell reference for protection templates
Applies to: Azure Information Protection, Office 365
Relevant for: Azure Information Protection classic client for Windows. For the unified labeling client, see Learn about sensitivity labels from the Microsoft 365 documentation.
Note
To provide a unified and streamlined customer experience, we are sunsetting the Azure Information Protection classic client and Label Management in the Azure Portal as of March 31, 2021. No further support is provided for the classic client and maintenance versions will no longer be released.
- The classic client will be fully retired, and will stop functioning, on March 31, 2022.
- As of March 18, 2022, we are also sunsetting the AIP audit log and analytics, with a full retirement date of September 31, 2022.
For more information, see Removed and retired services.
Protection settings for Azure Information Protection are saved in protection templates. Everything that you can do in the Azure portal to create and manage protection settings, you can do from the command line by using PowerShell.
In addition, you can export and import protection templates. These two actions let you copy protection templates between tenants or do bulk edits of complex properties, such as multilingual names and descriptions.
You can also use export and import to back up and restore your protection templates. As a best practice, regularly back up your templates. Then, if you make a change to the protection settings that wasn't intended, you can easily revert to a previous version.
For installation instructions, see Installing the AIPService PowerShell module.
The cmdlets that support creating and managing protection templates:
See Also
Configuring and managing templates for Azure Information Protection