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Sensitivity column in Windows Explorer populated
Hi Does anybody know when the sensitivity column in Windows explorer will be populated? Currently the only way I see which label is applied to a file is either through AIP unified labeling client, ...
Wolfgang Bach It's a roadmap item. no specific commitment or timelines we can provide now.
would like to see this too. Any ideas Nir Hendler ?
Nir Hendler
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MicrosoftWolfgang Bach It's a roadmap item. no specific commitment or timelines we can provide now.
Nir Hendler
hello do we have any news in regards of this item?
Martin_Siebervladzakharov - There is not change in the status of the feature. (Responding, because Nir is now covering different products. )
- hi @NirHendler, any news on this? Haven't found any item on the MS Roadmap page. Thank you!
- Martin_SieberThe situation is unchanged, the feature is still on the backlog, but not yet on the roadmap.
- Can you add it to the roadmap? This was requested 3 years ago. Really odd it's taking such a significant amount of time to just get added to the roadmap. I would also like to see this enabled for our users.
May I know the roadmap ID or link, please ?Nir Hendler
- Any update for this trend?
- +1 on this request. I have several clients that have asked about this recently.
Nir Hendler having a column in the file explorer is critical to the long-term successful adoption of users to sensitivity labels. One drive and its ability to sync libraries to the desktop was critical to our organization's users adopting SharePoint as a file storage location. No amount of training seems to break the user's desire to day-in and day-out use the File Explorer to access their documents. Asking them to use the browser to manage files is met with a lot of resistance. Though they are more than happy to work in Teams and click the sync button in teams.
If sensitivity labels are "hidden" inside the browser view they will be out of sight and out of mind. This will lead to users not using them.
thetechguru you could use AIP+ Spirion, adds the missing efficiency for config and usage tools like explorer integration.
- Nir HendlerNo Update at the moment
Nir Hendler, it is really hard to convince users of information classification as long as the sensitivity column in File Explorer is not populated. Can you foresee when this bug will finally be fixed?
Regards, Guenther
Nir Hendler we also have a strong business requirement to see the classification of files in the explorer. This would help us to manually classifiy already existing data and also to see if and how other File-Formats like PDFs are classified. The Workaround using the Adobe Plug-Ins for Reader and DC is not really an option just to show the classification.
Is there any update on this "sensitivity column in Explorer" Topic? Timeline?
Can you explain a little bit, what makes it so hard to add this?- Nir HendlerThank you for this feedback Markus. The ability to label files outside Office apps is done with AIP Client using the "Classify and Protect" component. Using Adobe Reader is designed to consume the file and see the label in addition to that.
I don't have more to share on your 2nd ask at the moment regarding native Windows File Explorer integration. We are looking into it as part of prioritization for other highly anticipated features.
