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Skipster311-1
Jul 06, 2021Iron Contributor
Best practice advice
Hello all I am fairly new to Defender for O365. I am the cloud admin for a small company roughly 1000 accounts. We are moving from mimecast to Defender for O365. I read the article regarding pres...
- Jul 06, 2021Precedence works in this order:
Strict protection preset security policy
Standard protection preset security policy
Custom security policies
Default security policies
Which means if a setting is set in a policy with a higher precedence, it can’t be overridden in a lower policy. You should be OK by using your approach.
pvanberlo
Jul 06, 2021MCT
Precedence works in this order:
Strict protection preset security policy
Standard protection preset security policy
Custom security policies
Default security policies
Which means if a setting is set in a policy with a higher precedence, it can’t be overridden in a lower policy. You should be OK by using your approach.
Strict protection preset security policy
Standard protection preset security policy
Custom security policies
Default security policies
Which means if a setting is set in a policy with a higher precedence, it can’t be overridden in a lower policy. You should be OK by using your approach.
Skipster311-1
Jul 06, 2021Iron Contributor
Got it, that answers my question. So if a setting is configured in a lower precedence policy, and that same setting is not mentioned in a higher precedence policy, then the setting will apply. This makes sense.