Planning and implementing an AIP deployment for your organization

In order to effectively plan for an AIP deployment in your organization, you need to have an understanding of how AIP is licensed in order to decide which Microsoft 365 subscriptions you are going to require for your users.

There are four subscription options available for AIP. These are described in the following table:

To summarize this, should you need to encrypt emails and documents, but not apply label classifications, then AIP for Office 365 is going to work just fine. If you need to take this a step further and require label classification capabilities, then AIP Premium P1 is the way to go. Finally, if you require all of the features mentioned in the preceding table, but also need to be able to automatically apply label classifications to sensitive content and use the on-premises AIP scanner, then you will need to use AIP Premium P2.

Once you have determined your AIP licensing...