Use sensitivity labels as conditions in DLP policies

You can use sensitivity labels as a condition in DLP policies for these locations:

• Exchange email messages
• SharePoint
• OneDrive
• Devices

Sensitivity labels appear as an option in the Content contains list.

Important

Sensitivity Labels as a condition will not be available if you have selected Teams chat and channel messages as a location to apply the DLP policy.

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Supported items, file types, scenarios, and policy tips

You can use sensitivity labels as conditions on these items and in the scenarios that follow.

Supported items

Service	Item type	Available to policy tip	Enforceable
Exchange	email message	yes	yes
Exchange	email attachment	yes	yes
SharePoint	items in SharePoint	yes	yes
OneDrive	items	yes	yes
Teams	Teams and channel messages	not applicable	not applicable
Teams	attachments	yes **	yes **
Devices	items	yes	yes
MCAS (preview)	items	yes	yes

** Attachments sent in Teams over 1:1 chat or channels are automatically uploaded to OneDrive and SharePoint. So if SharePoint or OneDrive are included as locations in your DLP policy, then labeled attachments sent in Teams are automatically included in the scope of this condition. Teams as a location doesn't need to be selected in the DLP policy.

Note

DLP's ability to detect sensitivity labels in SharePoint and OneDrive is limited. For more information, see Enable sensitivity labels for files in SharePoint and OneDrive.

Supported file types

Workload	File types supported
Exchange emails	Office files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), PDF, PFILE (files that are labeled with protection using MIP SDK)
SharePoint	Office files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), PDF
OneDrive	Office files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), PDF
endpoint devices	Office files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), PDF

Supported scenarios

• DLP Admin is able to see a list of all sensitivity labels in the tenant when they choose to include one or more sensitivity labels as a condition.

• Using sensitivity labels as a condition is supported across all workloads, as indicated in the support matrix above.

• DLP policy tips continue to be shown across workloads for DLP policies that contain one or more sensitivity labels as a condition.

• Sensitivity labels appear as a part of the incident report email if a DLP policy with one or more sensitivity labels as a condition is matched.

• Sensitivity label details are shown in the DLP rule match audit log for DLP policy matches that contain a sensitivity label as a condition.

Support policy tips

Workload	Policy tips supported/not supported
OWA	supported
Outlook for Windows	supported
SharePoint	supported
OneDrive	supported
endpoint devices	not supported