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Little warning on the new Purview suite for M365BP
Microsoft introduced a highly needed and expected compliance suite add-on for Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium: $10/user/month Microsoft 365 BP are unable to add Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance suite $12/user/month and forced to move to M365E3 to be able to add this product. So as a Microsoft partner I was delighted to see that Microsoft introduced this new product and made it possible to give SMB customers the tools they need to comply with all kinds of regulations. BUT: What a disappointment it is, this new product. It is a lame strip down version of the E5 Compliance suite and missing essential functionality that regulated SMB customers badly need. What the was going on in de mind of the product manager who is responsible for this product. Besides missing crucial functionality like Compliance Manager, Compliance Portal and Privilege Access Management it also misses in product features. Some examples: Data Loss Prevention: Great for protection your sensitive information leaking out of your organisation, but with a little more investigation, I found out that Administrative Units is not supported Information Protection: Automatic Labels is not supported Insider Risk management: No Adaptive Protection Compliance Manager: No Policies, No Alerts DSPM for AI: No Policies So, Microsoft come on, you can do better than this and embrace SMB’s more seriously and make E5 compliance available like you did with E5 security for M365BP users and stop with this lame and incomplete product. My recommendation to M365BP customers who need Compliance add-on, don’t buy this new suite, unless you don’t need the above functionality.
How to practice SC-200 content on an empty tenant
Hello, I am following the SC 200 course on Microsoft Learn. It is great and everything but my m365 business tenant is empty. I don't have VMs, logs, user activity or anything. I learned some KQL and microsoft provides some datasets for practice. Are there any such data I can load on my tenant for threat hunting and other SC-200 related practices or is there an isolated simulation environment I can use for learning?Share your experience with Microsoft Security Products on Gartner Peer Insights
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Quarantine emails marked as High Confidence Phish are being system released
I have a group of about 20 emails that were in quarantine, and within moments they were released by 'System release' There are multiple different domains being released, and all of them have a High Confidence Phish level. Since it is a system release, I cannot submit anything to Microsoft other than it appears clean. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Microsoft Defender Value Report does not have data
Hi, I was to report for the Month end of July 2025. I usually source data from the Monthly Security Report from the Microsoft Defender Reports. But since Aug 1 this has been the result. Any insight on this? I already have made changes to the monthly report, but this helps us greatly since this is a one stop shop for data we use. Thanks in advance.Getting Contextual Summary from SIT(Sensitive info types) via PowerShell cmd
Hi, I am using a PowerShell command(Export-ContentExplorerData) to extract data from an SIT. In the response, I am getting most of the data but I am interested in getting the matching primary element from Contextual summary(Content explorer) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/export-contentexplorerdata
Scheduling attack simulations
I'm starting to use the Defender attack simulation feature. I have approx. 3000 users to target. Leadership don't want to send 3000 tests every month rather divide the people up across 12 months sending smaller monthly batches. The issue of not being enough tests for each individual is there a way to automate the sending of these to even batches of people across 12 months rather than having to set these up manually?Help! Sensitivity label applied to whole tenant mistakenly with Watermark
We create a sensitivity label to have a watermark to be applied on the files on where it assigned but accidentally or due to misconfiguration, the watermark applied to whole tenant and the files, need a solution to automatically removed these watermarks from the files wherever it is applied. Please assist, TIA... .
Hunting for MFA manipulations in Entra ID tenants using KQL
The following article, Hunting for MFA manipulations in Entra ID tenants using KQL proved to be an invaluable resource in my search for an automated way to notify users of MFA modifications. I've adapted the KQL query to function within Defender Advanced Hunting or Azure Entra, my objective is to establish an alert that directly E-Mails the affected user, informing them of the MFA change and advising them to contact security if they did not initiate it. While the query runs correctly under Defender Advanced Hunting, I'm currently unable to create a workable custom alert because no "ReportId" is being captured. Despite consulting with Copilot, Gemini, CDW Support, and Microsoft Support, no workable solution has been achieved. Any insight would be greatly appreciated - Thank You! //Advanced Hunting query to parse modified: //StrongAuthenticationUserDetails (SAUD) //StrongAuthenticationMethod (SAM) let SearchWindow = 1h; let AuthenticationMethods = dynamic(["TwoWayVoiceMobile","TwoWaySms","TwoWayVoiceOffice","TwoWayVoiceOtherMobile","TwoWaySmsOtherMobile","OneWaySms","PhoneAppNotification","PhoneAppOTP"]); let AuthenticationMethodChanges = CloudAppEvents | where ActionType == "Update user." and RawEventData contains "StrongAuthenticationMethod" | extend Target = tostring(RawEventData.ObjectId) | extend Actor = tostring(RawEventData.UserId) | mv-expand ModifiedProperties = parse_json(RawEventData.ModifiedProperties) | where ModifiedProperties.Name == "StrongAuthenticationMethod" | project Timestamp,Actor,Target,ModifiedProperties,RawEventData,ReportId; let OldValues = AuthenticationMethodChanges | extend OldValue = parse_json(tostring(ModifiedProperties.OldValue)) | mv-apply OldValue on (extend Old_MethodType=tostring(OldValue.MethodType),Old_Default=tostring(OldValue.Default) | sort by Old_MethodType); let NewValues = AuthenticationMethodChanges | extend NewValue = parse_json(tostring(ModifiedProperties.NewValue)) | mv-apply NewValue on (extend New_MethodType=tostring(NewValue.MethodType),New_Default=tostring(NewValue.Default) | sort by New_MethodType); let RemovedMethods = AuthenticationMethodChanges | join kind=inner OldValues on ReportId | join kind=leftouter NewValues on ReportId,$left.Old_MethodType==$right.New_MethodType | where Old_MethodType != New_MethodType | extend Action = strcat("Removed (" , AuthenticationMethods[toint(Old_MethodType)], ") from Authentication Methods.") | extend ChangedValue = "Method Removed"; let AddedMethods = AuthenticationMethodChanges | join kind=inner NewValues on ReportId | join kind=leftouter OldValues on ReportId,$left.New_MethodType==$right.Old_MethodType | where Old_MethodType != New_MethodType | extend Action = strcat("Added (" , AuthenticationMethods[toint(New_MethodType)], ") as Authentication Method.") | extend ChangedValue = "Method Added"; let DefaultMethodChanges = AuthenticationMethodChanges | join kind=inner OldValues on ReportId | join kind=inner NewValues on ReportId | where Old_Default != New_Default and Old_MethodType == New_MethodType and New_Default == "true" | join kind=inner OldValues on ReportId | where Old_Default1 == "true" and Old_MethodType1 != New_MethodType | extend Old_MethodType = Old_MethodType1 | extend Action = strcat("Default Authentication Method was changed to (" , AuthenticationMethods[toint(New_MethodType)], ").") | extend ChangedValue = "Default Method"; let AuthenticationMethodReport = union RemovedMethods,AddedMethods,DefaultMethodChanges | project Timestamp,Action,Actor,Target,ChangedValue,OldValue=case(isempty(Old_MethodType), "",strcat(Old_MethodType,": ", AuthenticationMethods[toint(Old_MethodType)])),NewValue=case(isempty( New_MethodType),"", strcat(New_MethodType,": ", AuthenticationMethods[toint(New_MethodType)])); let AuthenticationDetailsChanges = CloudAppEvents | where ActionType == "Update user." and RawEventData contains "StrongAuthenticationUserDetails" | extend Target = tostring(RawEventData.ObjectId) | extend Actor = tostring(RawEventData.UserId) | extend ReportId= tostring(RawEventData.ReportId) | mvexpand ModifiedProperties = parse_json(RawEventData.ModifiedProperties) | where ModifiedProperties.Name == "StrongAuthenticationUserDetails" | extend NewValue = parse_json(replace_string(replace_string(tostring(ModifiedProperties.NewValue),"[",""),"]","")) | extend OldValue = parse_json(replace_string(replace_string(tostring(ModifiedProperties.OldValue),"[",""),"]","")) | mv-expand NewValue | mv-expand OldValue | where (tostring( bag_keys(OldValue)) == tostring(bag_keys(NewValue))) or (isempty(OldValue) and tostring(NewValue) !contains ":null") or (isempty(NewValue) and tostring(OldValue) !contains ":null") | extend ChangedValue = tostring(bag_keys(NewValue)[0]) | extend OldValue = tostring(parse_json(OldValue)[ChangedValue]) | extend NewValue = tostring(parse_json(NewValue)[ChangedValue]) | extend OldValue = case(ChangedValue == "PhoneNumber" or ChangedValue == "AlternativePhoneNumber", replace_strings(OldValue,dynamic([' ','(',')']), dynamic(['','',''])), OldValue ) | extend NewValue = case(ChangedValue == "PhoneNumber" or ChangedValue == "AlternativePhoneNumber", replace_strings(NewValue,dynamic([' ','(',')']), dynamic(['','',''])), NewValue ) | where tostring(OldValue) != tostring(NewValue) | extend Action = case(isempty(OldValue), strcat("Added new ",ChangedValue, " to Strong Authentication."),isempty(NewValue),strcat("Removed existing ",ChangedValue, " from Strong Authentication."),strcat("Changed ",ChangedValue," in Strong Authentication.")); union AuthenticationMethodReport, AuthenticationDetailsChanges | extend AccountUpn = Target | where Timestamp > ago(SearchWindow) //| summarize count() by Timestamp, Action, Actor, Target, ChangedValue, OldValue, NewValue, ReportId, AccountDisplayName, AccountId, AccountUpn | summarize arg_max(Timestamp, *) by Action | project Timestamp, Action, Actor, Target, ChangedValue, OldValue, NewValue, ReportId, AccountDisplayName, AccountId, AccountUpn | sort by Timestamp desc
