Test scenario 7 - Use Cortana and Windows Information Protection (WIP) to help protect your organization’s data on a device

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Important

Cortana in Windows as a standalone app is deprecated. This change only impacts Cortana in Windows, and your productivity assistant, Cortana, will continue to be available in Outlook mobile, Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams display, and Microsoft Teams rooms.

Important

The data created as part of these scenarios will be uploaded to Microsoft’s Cloud to help Cortana learn and help your employees. This is the same info that Cortana uses in the consumer offering.

This optional scenario helps you to protect your organization’s data on a device, based on an inspection by Cortana.

Use Cortana and WIP to protect your organization’s data

  1. Create and deploy a WIP policy to your organization. For information about how to do this step, see Protect your enterprise data using Windows Information Protection (WIP).

  2. Create a new email from a non-protected or personal mailbox, including the text I’ll send you that presentation tomorrow.

  3. Wait up to 2 hours to make sure everything has updated, click the Cortana icon in the taskbar, and then click in the Search bar.

    Cortana automatically pulls your commitment to sending the presentation out of your email, showing it to you.

  4. Create a new email from a protected mailbox, including the same text as above, I’ll send you that presentation tomorrow.

  5. Wait until everything has updated again, click the Cortana icon in the taskbar, and then click in the Search bar.

    Because it was in an WIP-protected email, the presentation info isn’t pulled out and it isn’t shown to you.