File tagging
Before you begin
Steps
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An admin level user is required to scan and tag files in SharePoint On-Premise. The user must be a member of Site Owners Group where they have full control permissions to the
SharePoint site.
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The default Forcepoint tags need to be created as a new column in their SharePoint. This process is described below:
- In SharePoint, navigate to Documents.
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In the files view, select + Add column.
- Select Choice and then Next.
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Give the name as Classification and the choices as: Public, Internal,
Confidential, Highly-Confidential. Select Save.
- Similarly create Compliance and Distribution columns (if required).
- Forcepoint and SharePoint's tags are now aligned.
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When tags are written to SharePoint files automatically over the API, as the tags are added by Forcepoint, Modified By changes to
System Account.
- Forcepoint preserves the Modified date where applicable.
Supported SharePoint On-Premise versions: The connector supports SharePoint 2013, 2016, 2019.