ProtectionPolicyManager Class
Definition
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Note
Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection.
For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities.
Manages enterprise-protection policy on protected content.
public ref class ProtectionPolicyManager sealed/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Security.EnterpriseData.EnterpriseDataContract, 65536)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Threading(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ThreadingModel.Both)]
class ProtectionPolicyManager final[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Security.EnterpriseData.EnterpriseDataContract), 65536)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Threading(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ThreadingModel.Both)]
public sealed class ProtectionPolicyManagerPublic NotInheritable Class ProtectionPolicyManager- Inheritance
- Attributes
Windows requirements
| Device family |
Windows Desktop Extension SDK (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
Windows Mobile Extension SDK (introduced in 10.0.10240.0) |
| API contract |
Windows.Security.EnterpriseData.EnterpriseDataContract (introduced in v1.0)
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| App capabilities |
enterpriseDataPolicy
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Remarks
Version history
| Windows version | SDK version | Value added |
|---|---|---|
| 1511 | 10586 | CheckAccessForApp |
| 1511 | 10586 | GetEnforcementLevel |
| 1511 | 10586 | HasContentBeenRevokedSince |
| 1511 | 10586 | IsProtectionEnabled |
| 1511 | 10586 | IsProtectionUnderLockRequired |
| 1511 | 10586 | IsUserDecryptionAllowed |
| 1511 | 10586 | PolicyChanged |
| 1511 | 10586 | RequestAccessForAppAsync(String,String) |
| 1607 | 14393 | LogAuditEvent |
| 1607 | 14393 | RequestAccessAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
| 1607 | 14393 | RequestAccessAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String) |
| 1607 | 14393 | RequestAccessForAppAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
| 1607 | 14393 | RequestAccessForAppAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String) |
| 1607 | 14393 | ShowEnterpriseIndicator |
| 1703 | 15063 | GetPrimaryManagedIdentityForIdentity |
| 1703 | 15063 | IsFileProtectionRequiredAsync |
| 1703 | 15063 | IsFileProtectionRequiredForNewFileAsync |
| 1703 | 15063 | IsRoamableProtectionEnabled |
| 1703 | 15063 | PrimaryManagedIdentity |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String,ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessForAppAsync(String,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String,ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessToFilesForAppAsync(IEnumerable<IStorageItem>,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessToFilesForAppAsync(IEnumerable<IStorageItem>,String,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String,ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessToFilesForProcessAsync(IEnumerable<IStorageItem>,UInt32,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
| 1703 | 15063 | RequestAccessToFilesForProcessAsync(IEnumerable<IStorageItem>,UInt32,ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo,String,ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
Properties
| Identity |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Gets or sets the enterprise identity. |
| IsProtectionEnabled |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Use this property to determine whether Windows Information Protection (WIP) is enabled on the device. |
| PrimaryManagedIdentity |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Gets the primary enterprise identity. |
| ShowEnterpriseIndicator |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. A value indicating whether or not the shell should decorate a window to show that it is an enterprise window. |
Methods
| CheckAccess(String, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request if access to enterprise-protected content is available to an identity. |
| CheckAccessForApp(String, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Perform enterprise-protection policy evaluation for a data transfer between your app and a specific target app. |
| ClearProcessUIPolicy() |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Clear UI policy enforcement for an enterprise identity. The app calls this method before it displays non-enterprise-protected content. |
| CreateCurrentThreadNetworkContext(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Creates a ThreadNetworkContext protected to an enterprise identity. The creation of the context tags all network connections made thereafter on the current thread with the identity, and allows access to enterprise resources that are access controlled by the enterprise's policy. |
| GetEnforcementLevel(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. You can use this method to determine the current Windows Information Protection (WIP) enforcement level. WIP enforcement level is one aspect of mobile device management (MDM) policy configuration. |
| GetForCurrentView() |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Returns the ProtectionPolicyManager object associated with the current app window. |
| GetPrimaryManagedIdentityForIdentity(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Gets the parent or primary identity of a given child or secondary identity. |
| GetPrimaryManagedIdentityForNetworkEndpointAsync(HostName) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Returns the enterprise identity of a network resource if the resource is on an enterprise-policy-managed endpoint. |
| HasContentBeenRevokedSince(String, DateTime) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Use this method to check (for a known identity that is managed or ever was managed) whether access to protected data has been revoked since a specified date and time, or is still accessible. Note that the API returns true for an unknown identity (that is, an identity that has never been managed and is not currently managed). This is so that your app can clean up data associated with an identity for which there is no information. For more info, see Remarks. |
| IsFileProtectionRequiredAsync(IStorageItem, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Indicates whether a file needs to be protected by the enterprise identity. |
| IsFileProtectionRequiredForNewFileAsync(IStorageFolder, String, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Indicates whether a file needs to be protected by the enterprise identity. |
| IsIdentityManaged(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Determines if an enterprise entity is managed by an enterprise policy. |
| IsProtectionUnderLockRequired(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Use this property to determine the value of the ProtectionUnderLockConfigRequired enterprise data protection (WIP) policy. |
| IsRoamableProtectionEnabled(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Determines whether the policy is configured to protect files that are copied to removable drives by using Azure Information Protection. |
| IsUserDecryptionAllowed(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Use this property to determine whether decryption of files protected by Windows Information Protection (WIP) is allowed. |
| LogAuditEvent(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Causes an audit event to be logged. |
| RequestAccessAsync(String, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise protected content for an identity. |
| RequestAccessAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise protected content for an identity. |
| RequestAccessAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise protected content for an identity. |
| RequestAccessAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String, ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise protected content for an identity |
| RequestAccessForAppAsync(String, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise-protected content for a specific target app. |
| RequestAccessForAppAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise-protected content for a specific target app. |
| RequestAccessForAppAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise-protected content for a specific target app. |
| RequestAccessForAppAsync(String, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String, ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Request access to enterprise-protected content for a specific target app. |
| RequestAccessToFilesForAppAsync(IIterable<IStorageItem>, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Requests access to enterprise-protected content for a specific app. |
| RequestAccessToFilesForAppAsync(IIterable<IStorageItem>, String, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String, ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Requests access to enterprise-protected content for a specific app. |
| RequestAccessToFilesForProcessAsync(IIterable<IStorageItem>, UInt32, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Requests access to enterprise-protected content for a process of an app. |
| RequestAccessToFilesForProcessAsync(IIterable<IStorageItem>, UInt32, ProtectionPolicyAuditInfo, String, ProtectionPolicyRequestAccessBehavior) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Requests access to enterprise-protected content for a process of an app. |
| RevokeContent(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Revoke the keys required to access all content protected to the specified enterprise identity. A remote management client on a device receives an unenrollment request from the enterprise’s remote management server, and calls to revoke the keys that are required to access content protected on that device to that enterprise identity. This causes the ProtectedContentRevoked event to be raised. Your app can also call in response to that event, in which case the effect is to revoke your app's access to content protected by itself. |
| TryApplyProcessUIPolicy(String) |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Enables UI policy enforcement for an enterprise identity. When an app is about to display a protected file (such as a PDF) or resource (buffer or stream) on its UI, it must enable UI policy enforcement based on the identity the file is protected to. A call to TryApplyProcessUIPolicy ensures that the OS knows about the current context of the app. |
Events
| PolicyChanged |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. An event that is raised in response to changes in Windows Information Protection (WIP) policy managed by the Policy CSP. |
| ProtectedAccessResumed |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Event with which the app registers to receive notification that protection has been resumed. |
| ProtectedAccessSuspending |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Event with which the app registers to receive notification that protection is to be suspended. |
| ProtectedContentRevoked |
Note Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection. For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities. Event with which your app registers to receive notification that protection is to be revoked. When your app receives this event, it should determine from ProtectedContentRevokedEventArgs.Identities which enterprise entities have had protection revoked, and call RevokeContent as well as delete any metadata associated with the identity. This event is not raised when your app calls RevokeContent to revoke its own access. |
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