SharePoint Stuff

I wanted to share a quick and easy way to get the GUID of a sensitive information type in Purview that I recently stumbled across.

If you are a Microsoft Purview user, you will no doubt no all about sensitive information types (SITs). In using SITs, you will inevitably have a need to use them within content searches, creating rules and other fun stuff. However, to use SITs in this context, you will need to know the GUID of the sensitive info type in order to use it.

Microsoft advise running PowerShell in order to get a list of all SITs in your tenant, plus a variety of other information depending on your requirements – but what if you just want a single SIT GUID? Well here is a really easy way to get it:

• Navigate to the Microsoft Purview portal
• Under data classification > classifiers
• Select your sensitive info type
• In the URL, the GUID is the 36 character string after “https://compliance.microsoft.com/dataclassificationclassifiers/sensitiveinfotypes/view/”

That’s it! Hopefully this is useful for others trying to quickly get their hands of a GUID for sensitive info types!

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