Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine Notifications enabled for Preset Security Policies

We are updating the recommended quarantine notification policy in the Standard and Strict preset security policies.

Policy Quarantine Policy Standard Strict
Anti-Spam SpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy
Anti-Spam HighConfidenceSpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy
Anti-Spam PhishQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy
Anti-Spam HighConfidencePhishQuarantineTag AdminOnlyAccessPolicy AdminOnlyAccessPolicy
Anti-Spam BulkQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessPolicy DefaultFullAccessPolicy
Anti-Phish   TargetedUserQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy
Anti-Phish   TargetedDomainQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy
Anti-Phish   MailboxIntelligenceQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessPolicy DefaultFullAccessPolicy
Anti-malware   QuarantineTag AdminOnlyAccessPolicy AdminOnlyAccessPolicy
Safe Attachments QuarantineTag AdminOnlyAccessPolicy AdminOnlyAccessPolicy

With the DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy, Users will receive quarantine notifications for emails quarantined due to the corresponding threat policy.

Here is what the quarantine notification looks like: 

quarantine notification
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When this will happen:

We will begin rolling this out in mid-February 2023 and complete rolling out by mid-March 2023.

How this will affect your organization:

If your organization has enabled preset security policies, these will be automatically updated to include the quarantine notification policies (DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy) as listed in the above table for the standard and strict protection preset profiles.

What you need to do to prepare:

No action required. Please review the following links to learn more:

Message ID: MC505088


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