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Enable Quarantine Notifications for Strict protection (Strict Preset Security Policy)
How can I enable quarantine notifications for the preset strict protection policies. There is no way to assign a quarantine policy to strict protection policies.
- Well, the DefaultFullAccessPolicy quarantine policy has notifications disabled, and you cannot toggle that. And I guess it overrides the notification settings within the Strict policy. So create a new policy (or use the NotificationEnabledPolicy) and change the settings via PowerShell:
[18:12:54][O365]# Set-HostedContentFilterPolicy "Strict Preset Security*" -PhishQuarantineTag NotificationEnabledPolicy
WARNING: All recommended properties will be controlled by Microsoft.
[18:13:00][O365]# Get-HostedContentFilterPolicy "Strict Preset Security*" | fl PhishQuarantineTag
PhishQuarantineTag : NotificationEnabledPolicy
Rinse and repeat for all other actions as needed.
For the Strict policy, both SpamAction and HighConfidenceSpamAction are already set to Quarantine. You can verify this via PowerShell and the Get-HostedContentFilterPolicy cmdlet.
Got it, thanks! But this does not trigger quarantine notifications (mail to user). The messages are moved to quarantine, without notifying the user.
- Check your Quarantine policy as well, by default notifications should be enabled. But the period might be too long (IIRC 3 days is the default one).
(from: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/quarantine-policies)
The default policies don't have notifications enabled:
It's also not possible to edit the two default quarantine policies (DefaultFullAccessPolicy and AdminOnlyAccessPolicy):
I could create a new quarantine policy, but how should I assign the quarantine policy to the strict policy?
There is no option to edit the strict policy.
Or should I just go the PowerShell way?
- At least in my tenant, the "Strict" policy uses NotificationEnabledPolicy for Quarantine, and that one can be edited to enable notifications. The frequency of notifications themselves can be toggled via the "Global" settings button on top of the Quarantine policies page.