Set up and manage enhanced image tagging in Microsoft Syntex

The image tagging service for Microsoft Syntex is set up in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Prerequisites

Licensing

Before you can use image tagging, you must first link an Azure subscription in Syntex pay-as-you-go. Image tagging is billed based on the type and number of transactions.

Permissions

You must be a SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator to be able to access the Microsoft 365 admin center and set up image tagging.

Important

Microsoft recommends that you use roles with the fewest permissions. This helps improve security for your organization. Global Administrator is a highly privileged role that should be limited to emergency scenarios when you can't use an existing role.

Set up image tagging

After an Azure subscription is linked to Microsoft Syntex, image tagging is automatically set up and enabled for all SharePoint sites.

Although you enable pay-as-you-go billing for image tagging, you are charged only when image tagging is enabled on a document library.

Manage sites

By default, image tagging is available for libraries on all SharePoint sites. To limit which sites users can apply image tagging, follow these steps.

  1. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Settings > Org settings.

  2. On the Org settings page, select Pay-as-you-go services.

  3. On the Pay-as-you-go services page, select the Settings tab.

  4. Under Document & image services, select Image tagging.

  5. On the Image tagging panel, under Which SharePoint sites should show the option to enable image tagging, select Edit.

  6. On the Image tagging panel, change the setting from Libraries in all SharePoint sites to Selected sites (up to 100) or No sites. For selected sites, follow the instructions to select the sites or upload a CSV listing of the sites. You can then manage site access permissions for the sites you selected.

  7. Select Save.