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Advanced Hunting Permissions update for some Microsoft Defender for Office 365 security admins
Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando · Microsoft may not have sent this notice to your tenant.Rollout
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Microsoft’s text, with source markup removedWe've changed the permissions mechanism to access Email & collaboration schema in Advanced Hunting for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 customers, to align with Threat Explorer. When this will happen: We will begin rolling out in early May 2024 and expect to complete by late May 2024. How this will affect your organization: Impacted users: Security teams that are using Defender XDR Email & collaboration schema in Advanced Hunting (https://security.microsoft.com/v2/advanced-hunting) Users assigned to Exchange Online Protection role groups View-only Manage alerts, Manage alerts, View-only audit logs, Audit logs, and Organization configuration. These role groups are configured in the Defender portal, under Permissions / Email & collaboration Roles / Roles, or in the Purview compliance portal under Roles and Scopes/Permissions. Users assigned the following permissions using Defender XDR Unified RBAC for Microsoft Defender for Office 365:Security operations / Security data basics (read), without Security operations / Raw data / Email & collaboration metadata (read)). Previously, these roles granted access to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Alerts and Incidents, as well as Email & collaboration schema in Advanced Hunting. What you need to do to prepare: After rolling out this change, these roles will continue to grant access to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Alerts and Incidents, but not Email & collaboration schema in Advanced Hunting. If you are willing to continue and grant your teams access to Email & collaboration schema in Advanced Hunting, please assign them one of the following permissions, same as required to access Threat Explorer: If Defender XDR Unified RBAC is active for Email & collaboration: please assign:Security operations / Raw data / Email & collaboration metadata (read) permission. If Defender XDR Unified RBAC is not active for Email & collaboration, please assign the following Email & collaboration permissions in the Defender portal: Security Reader, Security Operator, Security Administrator, Exchange Administrator, Global Reader, View-Only Recipients, Organization Management. Notes: This change does not impact access to Threat Explorer Global Entra ID roles are not impacted by this change Please review the following resources to learn more: For additional information on Advanced Hunting permissions, see Custom roles for role-based access control | Microsoft Learn For additional information on Threat Explorer permissions, see About Threat Explorer and Real-time detections in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Microsoft Learn
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- Exchange AdministratorExplicit name or template GUID in this notice
- Global ReaderExplicit name or template GUID in this notice
- Security AdministratorExplicit name or template GUID in this notice
- Security OperatorExplicit name or template GUID in this notice
- Security ReaderExplicit name or template GUID in this notice
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