@Antonette Cruz Thank you for reaching out to us, to start deploying information protection you have to use compliance portal where you define labels for user/automatic labelling/assign license to the user to leverage information protection features/capabilities.
Define label schema - Establish labeling schema with parent and sub-labels, user descriptions and priority.
Publish labels to end user - Allow your end users to start manually labelling
Label recommendation - Assist your end users in labeling with recommendations
Automatic labeling - Scale your organization's labeling efforts with automation.
Information Protection scanner runs as a service on Windows Server and lets you discover, classify, and protect files on the following data stores:
- UNC paths for network shares that use the SMB or NFS (Preview) protocols.
- SharePoint document libraries and folder for SharePoint Server 2019 through SharePoint Server 2013.
Also would like to share - https://github.com/Azure/Cloud-Data-Security/blob/main/Scripts/docs.zip?raw=true which has the samples which can be used for testing various scenarios (configurations of SIT).
Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/deploy-scanner?view=o365-worldwide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqoTUGzZcX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPAjunoiPM&list=PL8wOlV8Hv3o_CSGXCt1I8WKX5_G1aah5d - Good to watch to understand the basics.
Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.
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