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Sensitivity Auto-labelling via Document Property

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Tim_Addison
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Aug 05, 2025

This article explores the use of Office document properties as conditions for sensitivity auto-labelling. We will walk through some applicable scenarios and explore configuration options.

Why is this needed? Sensitivity labels are generally relevant within an organisation only. If a file is labelled within one environment and then moved to another environment, sensitivity label cont...
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CameronStephens2
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Aug 11, 2025

I had a lot of trouble getting this working. Titus creates 2 document property entries, one with the GUID of the label and the other with the name, like below:

  • TitusGUID:1111ab11-1a11-11a1-1abc-a11a1a1a1a11
  • Classification:Public

Even when I followed this guide it would not detect the guid doc property, even when I added the name/value in quotes. I can only assume it doesnt like the dashes, as I started getting detections when I targeted the classification field.

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Tim_Addison
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Aug 18, 2025

Thanks Cameron. Great to hear that you got it working with the Classification field. Not too sure why GUID isn't working. Could be a character limit being applied somewhere, but can't spot a limit that might influence things. Also thought that it could be attempting to match via RegEx but the hyphen character wouldn't cause any issues there. I'll keep an eye out for an answer to this and report back if I find something. ;)