To provision an account for Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) on the Cloud App Security management console, you need to have one of the following licenses which include a MIP service plan:

  • Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/E3/A3/G3

  • Office 365 E5/A5/E3/A3

  • Information Protection for Office 365 - Standard

  • Information Protection for Office 365 - Premium

The steps outlined below detail how to provision an account for Microsoft Information Protection.

  1. Log on to the Cloud App Security management console.
  2. Go to Administration > Service Account.
  3. Click Add, hover over the organization for which you need to provision services, and select Microsoft Information Protection from the list that appears on the right side.
    Note:

    Microsoft Information Protection appears in the list only if you have provisioned a service account for at least one of the SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams (Teams), Microsoft Teams (Chat), and Exchange Online services.

    The Provision for Microsoft Information Protection screen appears.

  4. Provision a Microsoft Information Protection account.
    1. Click Click here at the end of Step 1.
    2. On the Microsoft logon screen that appears, specify your Office 365 Global Administrator credentials to sign in.
    3. On the authorization screen that appears, click Accept to grant Cloud App Security the permission.
  5. Go back to the management console as instructed and click Done.
  6. Hover over the notification icon in the upper-right corner of the management console.

    If the message "You have provisioned for Microsoft Information Protection." appears on the Notifications screen, the provisioning is successful.

Parent topic: Using a MIP or RMS Account