Removed and retired services
Note
Are you looking for Microsoft Information Protection? The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client is currently in maintenance mode. We recommend enabling Microsoft Information Protection's built-in labeling for your Office 365 applications. Learn more.
This article describes the current status for services that we've removed and retired, or are currently sunsetting, which you may have used or are still using with Azure Information Protection.
The AIP classic client
To provide a unified and streamlined customer experience, we have retired the Azure Information Protection classic client and labeling management pages in the Azure portal as of March 31, 2022. This means that:
- No further support is provided for the classic client
- Maintenance versions will no longer be released
- The Labels and Policies tabs have been removed from the Azure portal
- The classic client can no longer acquire policies from the Azure portal
We recommend that all customers migrate to unified labeling, and enable built-in sensitivity labeling for Office applications.
For more information, see:
- Final reminder to migrate from Azure Information Protection classic client to unified labeling .
- Learn about built-in labeling and the AIP unified labeling client
- Archived classic client documentation
Azure Information Protection analytics
Starting March 18, 2022, Microsoft no longer supports new Log Analytics workspaces to onboard for storing AIP audit logs.
Customers who already have AIP audit logs configured will continue to have those audit logs forwarded to their Log Analytics workspaces until September 30, 2022. At that point, customers will not be able to have any new AIP data forwarded to their Log Analytics workspace.
Instead, we highly recommend that you use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal's activity explorer and content explorer, which provide comprehensive logging and reporting.
The AIP scanner's network discovery features also use the AIP audit pipeline, and we are also sunsetting this feature with the AIP audit logs on September 30, 2022. Starting March 18, 2022, only existing customers with AIP audit logs already configured will be able to continue using network discovery features.
For more information, see:
AIP and legacy Windows and Office, SharePoint, and Exchange versions
Windows 7 extended supported ended on January 14, 2020.
We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a newer version of Windows.
However, if you have Extended Security Updates (ESU) and a support contract, AIP support is available to continue keeping your Windows 7 systems secure.
For more information, check with your support contact.
Office 2010 and Exchange Server 2010 extended support ended on October 13, 2020.
This support will not be extended, and ESU will not be offered for Office 2010.
We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a newer version of Office 365.
SharePoint Server 2010 extended support ended on April 13, 2021.
For more information, check with your support contact.