What is the purpose of Global (Default policy for all users in the tenant) policy in Azure Information Protection?

Question

Could someone please explain why do we need Global policy in Azure Portal -> AIP -> Policies?
The point is that I'm reading the official docs, but still can't understand how it influences the Office apps.

For example in "MS 365 Compliance" portal we have "Information Protection", where we have "Labels", and "Label Policies". And I can see how it affects the Office apps: I see the labels which I've identified in appropriate label policy. This is straightforward, and easy to understand and follow.

In contrast, there is no labels identified in Global policy in Azure Portal -> AIP -> Global Policy.

Why do MS have so many portals to manage and configure information protection/DLP/Labeling...:

• Azure portal;
• compliance.microsoft.com;
• security.microsoft.com;
• protection.office.com.

And how Global policy (in Portal) aligns with MS 365 Compliance portal, and other IP/DLP/Labeling portals?

Thank you.

Answer 1

@Baurzhan The AIP portal policy which gets applied only to the AIP Classic clients and this portal will be deprecated in next March.
Global policy is to target the label to all users in the tenant.

Read more about it here : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/information-protection/configure-policy-scope