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MSSP Multi-Tenant Handling with Lighthouse and Defender XDR
Hello, As far as I know an MSSP providers, leverages Azure Lighthouse to call and access multiple customer workspaces, which allows to manage analytics across tenants. My questions are: In the case of moving to Defender XDR, how would this be possible in a multi-tenant MSSP scenario? Even with Lighthouse, how does Defender XDR avoid merging incidents/alerts across different customers when the same entities are involved? How does Defender XDR differentiate identical IOCs (same IP, hash, etc.) that appear in multiple customers? Can MSSPs customize correlation logic to prevent false cross-tenant merges? Content Ownership & Sharing Most MSSPs do not want to share their proprietary content (custom rules, detections, playbooks, analytics, etc.) with customers. How is Defender XDR approaching this requirement to ensure MSSPs can operate without exposing their intellectual property? Example: Customer Test 1 has a port scan incident from IP 10.10.10.10. Customer Test 2 also has a port scan incident from the same IP 10.10.10.10. In Sentinel today, these would remain separate. But in Defender XDR, would these two alerts risk being merged into a single incident because the same entity is detected across tenants? Thanks in advance for any clarification.smavrakisSep 17, 2025Occasional Reader12Views0likes0Comments"Something went wrong. Primary and secondary data missing" when viewing email submission
Does anyone know what causes the "Something went wrong. Primary and secondary data missing" error when viewing an email submission in Microsoft Defender? It happens sporadically, but on I would guess 5% - 10% of our submissions.RSKadishSep 17, 2025Brass Contributor21Views0likes0CommentsDeep Dive into Preview Features in Microsoft Defender Console
Background for Discussion Microsoft Defender XDR (Extended Detection and Response) is evolving rapidly, offering enhanced security capabilities through preview features that can be enabled in the MDE console. These preview features are accessible via: Path: Settings > Microsoft Defender XDR > General > Preview features Under this section, users can opt into three distinct integrations: Microsoft Defender XDR + Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Each of these options unlocks advanced functionalities that improve threat detection, incident correlation, and response automation across identity, endpoint, and cloud environments. However, enabling these features is optional and may depend on organizational readiness or policy. This raises important questions about: What specific technical capabilities are introduced by each preview feature? Where exactly are these feature parameters are reflected in the MDE console? What happens if an organization chooses not to enable these preview features? Are there alternative ways to access similar functionalities through public preview or general availability?bharatchaudhari89Sep 16, 2025Copper Contributor41Views1like0CommentsError getting Device Data
Have an issue with Device data not displaying in the Defender XDR portal. On the Assets/Devices menu I can search and find a device, but when I click in it to see the properties- the page displays only 50% of the time. Mostly it stays loading for about 30 secs then displays the error "Error getting Device Data" Occurs regardless of what permissions are applied, occurs regardless of the browser or incognito modes, regardless of who is logged in. Done basic troubleshooting from MS and even MS support cannot find the answer so far. Has anyone seen this before? CheersSolvedDan_ReichenbachSep 07, 2025Copper Contributor116Views0likes2CommentsFirewall Rules programming with Defender XDR
We have our devices onboarded to Defender for Endpoint, and want to program Firewall Policy and Firewall Rules Policy using Defender Onboarding. We know that we can onboard devices to Intune and use Intune MDM to program rules. But, we don't want a full blown MDM setup or license for just firewall programming. Is there a deployment scenario where we can do firewall programming just using defender machines. Any help is really appreciated.SolvedthisisbhaskarSep 07, 2025Copper Contributor106Views0likes1CommentImporting Purview roles into XDR RBAC
I want to activate Email & collaboration into XDR RBAC, so in XDR RBAC, I go and "choose roles to import" and I see the built-in Purview eDiscovery Manager role. Ok, fine, so I choose to import it into XDR RBAC and assume that my two groups of users in that role group (eDiscovery Managers (Sally and Sue) and eDiscovery Admins (Bob)) would be different. Sally and Sue can only manage their own cases and Bob can manage all cases. Different roles. But after it imports, there's only 1 role: eDiscovery Manager and all my users are in there - Sally, Sue and Bob with "Raw data (Email & collaboration) " - both read permissions are selected. But that's it. Question 1) I'm confused on why the eDiscovery role is being imported into XDR RBAC and if that means that over in Purview, after I activate the "Defender for Office365" workload in XDR RBAC - will something change with what Sally and Sue and Bob can do in Purview eDiscovery? Will I still be managing my eDiscovery users in Purview roles for when I need to add Billy to the list of eDiscovery Admins? Question 2) I see that the other Purview role groups I have users assigned (Audit Manager and Organization Management as well as a custom "Search and Purge" role group) were also imported into XDR RBAC permissions and roles but yet aren't applicable until I activate the workload. Wondering what exactly will happen when I activate the Email & collaboration workload. Will anything negative happen to the PIM groups I gave the Purview role groups to? Would I then need to clean anything up over in Purview roles after I activate the workload in XDR RBAC? This isn't clear at all what to do after I activate the email and collaboration workload and can I just undo it if it messes anything up?SolvedKayZeeBeeSep 07, 2025Copper Contributor72Views0likes1CommentUnable to view certain defender alerts
Hi Team, We are unable to view certain defender alerts from defender portal. We are able to pool alerts using graph api and from the output -> using alertWebUrl we tried to view the alert. We observed "You can't access this section" error message. (Sorry, you can't access this section. Check with your administrator for the role-based access permissions to see the data). But we are able to view other alerts, (Ex: Above error is for XDR alert, but we are able to view other XDR alerts). Is it possible to allow access to view only few XDR alerts?Solvedesanya2280Sep 07, 2025Copper Contributor99Views0likes1CommentMDE Device Control – USB stick still accessible even after blocking policy applied
Hey everyone, I’m currently testing MDE Device Control (Device Installation Restrictions) to block all USB removable storage except for explicitly allowed devices. Here’s what I did: Created a Device Control policy in Intune Set “Allow installation of devices that match any of these device IDs” = Enabled Added my test USB stick’s Device Instance ID (from Device Manager → Properties → Details → Hardware IDs, e.g. USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Intenso&Prod_Basic_Line&Rev_2.00\[masked_serial]&0 Deployed to test machine But: I can still access the USB stick and read/write files as usual. So my questions are: Am I using the correct ID (Device Instance ID vs. Hardware ID vs. Class GUID)? Do Device Installation Restrictions only prevent new driver installations and not access to already installed devices? Should I be using the newer Device Control (Removable Storage Access Control) instead of Device Installation Restrictions for this scenario? Any advice from people who successfully blocked/allowed USB sticks via Intune would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advancealex_ri141Aug 29, 2025Copper Contributor78Views0likes2CommentsOpenSSL
We have the recommendation to update OpenSSL. However, we can not figure out how to actually do this. There seems to be no installed location of OpenSSL so how can we update this? I have found a few posts/comments that have led me to this page New OpenSSL v3 vulnerability: prepare with Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Microsoft Community Hub but this doesn't actually help you at all. Going to OpenSSL's site for download just gives you a repository of files that don't actually update anything. So what are we supposed to do to get this remediated?hbrooks2375Aug 26, 2025Copper Contributor12KViews1like5Comments
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