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Custom Data Collection - Not Collect Events
Hello, Have anyone test or implement Custom Data Collection from Defender XDR ? I try to use this function, i create rule and attach Sentinel Workspace, but for Example the "DeviceCustomProcessEvents" Table remains empty. But with comand "DeviceProcessEvents" there are events that match the rule that i create. There is another person that have the same issues ? Many thanks, Regards, GuidoSolved55Views0likes1CommentHow to stop incidents merging under new incident (MultiStage) in defender.
Dear All We are experiencing a challenge with the integration between Microsoft Sentinel and the Defender portal where multiple custom rule alerts and analytic rule incidents are being automatically merged into a single incident named "Multistage." This automatic incident merging affects the granularity and context of our investigations, especially for important custom use cases such as specific admin activities and differentiated analytic logic. Key concerns include: Custom rule alerts from Sentinel merging undesirably into a single "Multistage" incident in Defender, causing loss of incident-specific investigation value. Analytic rules arising from different data sources and detection logic are merged, although they represent distinct security events needing separate attention. Customers require and depend on distinct, non-merged incidents for custom use cases, and the current incident correlation and merging behavior undermines this requirement. We understand that Defender’s incident correlation engine merges incidents based on overlapping entities, timelines, and behaviors but would like guidance or configuration best practices to disable or minimize this automatic merging behavior for our custom and analytic rule incidents. Our goal is to maintain independent incidents corresponding exactly to our custom alerts so that hunting, triage, and response workflows remain precise and actionable. Any recommendations or advanced configuration options to achieve this separation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance. Best regardsSolved246Views1like6CommentsDefender is missing logs for files copied to USB device on Mac devices
Hello, I am currently facing an issue with Defender not logging files copied to USBs. Using the KQL below, I can only see .exe files copied, but nothing when it comes to .pdf, .docx. .zip and other standard file extensions. Has someone come across this issue before? Any help is greatly appreciated let UsbDriveMount = DeviceEvents | where ActionType=="UsbDriveMounted" | extend ParsedFields=parse_json(AdditionalFields) | project DeviceId, DeviceName, DriveLetter=ParsedFields.DriveLetter, MountTime=TimeGenerated, ProductName=ParsedFields.ProductName,SerialNumber=ParsedFields.SerialNumber,Manufacturer=ParsedFields.Manufacturer | order by DeviceId asc, MountTime desc; let FileCreation = DeviceFileEvents | where InitiatingProcessAccountName != "system" | where ActionType == "FileCreated" | where FolderPath !startswith "C:\\" | where FolderPath !startswith "\\" | project ReportId,DeviceId,InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, InitiatingProcessAccountName,InitiatingProcessAccountUpn, FileName, FolderPath, SHA256, TimeGenerated, SensitivityLabel, IsAzureInfoProtectionApplied | order by DeviceId asc, TimeGenerated desc; FileCreation | lookup kind=inner (UsbDriveMount) on DeviceId | where FolderPath startswith DriveLetter | where TimeGenerated >= MountTime | partition hint.strategy=native by ReportId ( top 1 by MountTime ) | order by DeviceId asc, TimeGenerated desc | extend HostName = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, 0, indexof(DeviceName, '.')), DeviceName) | extend DnsDomain = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, indexof(DeviceName, '.') + 1), "") | extend FileHashAlgorithm = 'SHA256'Solved112Views0likes2Comments"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.Solved294Views0likes4CommentsError 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? CheersSolved370Views0likes2CommentsUnable 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?Solved288Views0likes1CommentFirewall 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.Solved279Views0likes1CommentAttack Surface Reduction - Problem Enforcement
Hello Community, for a customer i deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Security Management Features of MDE. All works fine but for "Attack Surface Reduction Rule" i have some problem, device are 1.8K and attack surface reduction only apply for 304 devices that have the same policy of other. But from Security Portal So i don't understand because in some device asr works correctly and in the other device not. Has anyone the same problem ? Regards, GuidoSolved231Views2likes3CommentsCannot use union * for Defender Hunting query to Create Detection Rule, so what other workarounds?
I tried to create custom detection rule from KQL query in Defender XDR: Advance Hunting by custom various variable to be able to submit, but for this query to be able to go through remediation setting of detection rule, I need the entity identifiable columns like AccountUpn, that I need to union with IdentityInfo schema. But detection rule seems not support the union * thing as the attached pic: I searched for the same problems that seems to be occurred in all system using KQL including in Microsoft Sentinel Logs but has no workaround to bypass. So, is there any way to get through this objective without strucking with union * problem?SolvedImporting 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?Solved240Views0likes1CommentDeception Not Deployed on Devices
Hi all, I created a deception rule and tried to deploy it on all devices (Windows server 2022). Unfortunately, the device count remains to 0... (status: in progress) PS: the deployement has been created... 2 months ago. Any idea ? Regards, HASolved247Views0likes3CommentsDynamic Blocklist in Microsoft Defender XDR
Hello Community, I have one question, and i think that is a request that could be useful to everyone. We have a Dynamic list that are published over internet in read-only (into this list we put ioc like malicious domain or bad ip reputation) is a txt file. There are a possibility from MDE o MDC to block all connection to this ioc ? or MDE and MDC not support Dynamic BLocklist ? Regards, GuidoSolved185Views0likes2CommentsDefender Deception Advance Lures - verification
Hello everyone, I'm looking to deploy defender deception in our environment. I've successfully tested and verified the basic lures, but I'm having trouble with the advanced lures/decoys. Specifically, I can't find a way to verify the account-planted cached credentials. Initially, I thought dumping LSASS would show some reference, but I found nothing. Has anyone tried this, and what were the results? Additionally, from an attacker's perspective, how would these account decoys be discovered? Thank you in advance.Solved274Views0likes3CommentsEDR Exclusions - file extensions with square brackets
Background: We applied for, and received the ability to access EDR Exclusions for our tenant due to some performance problems we were seeing. I think this might still be an early preview feature but am not 100% sure... Here is a screenshot of what I am referring to: We have found a few other applications that had issues, including one that uses many different file extensions. Some of those files use square brackets in the extension name. This are valid files. However when I try to add them to our EDR Exclusions, I get an error "a valid extension must be specified"... which is frustrating because it is a valid extension. Does anyone have a solution for this or know how to get Microsoft to fix this? ThanksSolved400Views0likes1CommentAdvanced Hunting along with a Custom Detection Rule
Good afternoon, I need some help setting up a KQL query in Advanced Hunting along with a Custom Detection Rule to automatically isolate devices where a virus or ransomware is detected. The rule must run at NRT (Near Real-Time) frequency. We are using Microsoft Defender for Business, which is included in the Microsoft 365 Business Premium license. Would any kind community member be able to provide me with a starting point for this? Thank you in advance!Solved606Views1like3CommentsDeviceLogonEvents "LogonSuccess", "LogoffSuccess", "ScreenLock", "ScreenUnlock"
I'm trying to get "LogonSuccess", "LogoffSuccess", "ScreenLock", "ScreenUnlock" from the DeviceLogonEvent table but I am only seeing LogonSuccess. I'm wondering if I need to configure something in my tenant for those events to show up in the DeviceLogonEvents table. I have both event ID's 8400 and 8401 showing in the local security event log.Solved317Views0likes3CommentsAdvanced Hunting Data Schema
Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the use of schema for Advanced Hunting queries. We are an organization with several companies under our holding. I need to recover the USB connections on the machines but only for one company and not the others. I need to sort on Company Name for the user. But in the Advanced Hunting schema there are no fields to filter on this. I looked specifically in UserInfo and DeviceInfo. Here's the query I use to detect USBs. I need to filter by CompanyName to retrieve the list of devices or users for this company only. DeviceEvents | where ActionType == “PnpDeviceConnected” | extend parsed=parse_json(AdditionalFields) | project Timestamp, DeviceName, DeviceId=tostring(parsed.DeviceId), ClassName=tostring(parsed.ClassName) | where ClassName == “DiskDrive” | summarize UsbFirstSeen=min(Timestamp), UsbLastSeen=max(Timestamp) by DeviceId, DeviceName; Is there another solution ? Thanks in advance for your answers, HKNSolved375Views0likes8CommentsMonitoring copied files on External drive - USB
Hello Guys, i struggle to find a way in Defender for EPP or other solutions to monitor when a user copied files on an external peripheral such as hard drive and USB. Some one have the procedure or documentation ? NOTE : Defender timeline could see when a user is plugging a USB stick. but that's... Thanks !Solved
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