Identify and Remove AIP impacted files after SharePoint migration across domains

Question

My organisation recently acquired another organisation and as part of the business and IT Transition we migrated multiple SharePoint sites (mainly document libraries) and associated content of up to 450,000 files (Word, Excel, PPT etc)

We have discovered that the originating organisation had AIP labels on files, but did not identify them or remove them before the migration. Therefore if we stumble across a file that has AIP attached we get a rights issue and are prompted to login to the originating organisation, which we clearly do not have access too

In our transition and production tenancy we have not yet enabled AIP and are unable to identify which files have AIP labels as they appear to not have been transferred or attached to the migration

What options are available?

1. Ensure that the originating organisation identify, remove and remigrate the document libraries and files
2. Is there a way we can identify impacted files via a scrip without AIP being activated on our side
3. Is there a way we can break the AIP protection ourselves

Thanks
Steve

Answer 1

@Steve Dennis Thank you for reaching out to us, researched on your above ask, looks like in addition to the AIP Label, the docs also have RMS Templates applied as part of the Label. Removing Labels are too big of a deal, but Rights Management is much more difficult without access to the Org that applied the Rights Management, in my view first option is good to go with "Ensure that the originating organization identify, remove and remigrate the document libraries and files"

However if you need more guidance, just open an advisory case with our support team on the same, if you don't have a support plan, let me know I can have free support option enabled for you on your Azure subscription for this issue.

Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.

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