Bulk remove Microsoft Purview Labels

jpcapone 1,486 Reputation points
2024-10-21T01:23:15.9766667+00:00

I have been doing a lot of research regarding the removal of sensitivity labels in bulk and what I have found has been confusing. Is it best to use the AIP client or any of the powershell commands that you find? If I have a client that wants to use Purview Labels and they run into an issue, what would be the best practice way to remove labels from a large amount of documents? Locations would be most likely be OneDrive or SharePoint.

Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
A Microsoft data governance service that helps manage and govern on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service data. Previously known as Azure Purview.
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  1. PRADEEPCHEEKATLA-MSFT 90,146 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-10-21T12:14:40.02+00:00

    @jpcapone Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

    Currently, there is no option to bulk remove Microsoft Purview lables via UI.

    Appreciate if you could share the feedback on our feedback channel. Which would be open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows our product teams to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and gives insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.

    If you delete a sensitivity label from the Microsoft Purview portal or the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, the label isn't automatically removed from content, and any protection settings continue to be enforced on content that had that label applied.

    If you edit a sensitivity label, the version of the label that was applied to content is what's enforced on that content.

    For detailed information about what happens when you delete a sensitivity label and how this is different from removing it from a sensitivity label policy, see Removing and deleting labels.

    Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.


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