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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies will support "Fingerprint based SIT"

Plan for Change

Message ID

MC920308
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Roadmap ID

396173
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Services

Microsoft 365 suite
Microsoft Purview

Affected Platforms

Web

Summary

Auto-labeling policies in Microsoft Purview | Information Protection will soon support Fingerprint based SIT. Rollout will start late November 2024 and finish by mid-February 2025. This update allows admins to automatically label files and emails with Fingerprint based SIT, which will be on by default.

Details

Updated February 11, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Admins will be able to use auto-labeling policies to automatically label files and emails with Fingerprint based SIT (sensitive info type).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396173.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025 (previously early February). 

How this will affect your organization:

Before this rollout, admins are not able to use auto-labeling policies to automatically label files and emails with Fingerprint based SIT.

After this rollout, you can configure Fingerprint based SIT using the condition Content contains sensitive information types. Files that match Fingerprint based SIT will show in simulation.

user settings

Note: Contextual summary is not available for Fingerprint based SITs.

This change will be on by default and available for admins to configure.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review use cases and set up for configuring document fingerprinting.

Learn more

  • About document fingerprinting | Microsoft Learn
  • Automatically apply a sensitivity label in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Timeline

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Published
Oct 28, 2024
Message published to Message Center
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Updated
Feb 11, 2025
Message content updated
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End Date
Mar 31, 2025
Message timeline ends

Tags

#Updated message#New feature#User impact#Admin impact

Category

📋Plan for Change

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