Create an Exchange Online report on SPAM, phishing, and malware using PowerShell

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It’s often useful for businesses to gather statistics on their current email traffic. This can be done via the Defender Portal in Microsoft 365 or using PowerShell. Generally, the standard Exchange Online Protection already allows you to view and analyze a significant amount of data (this feature is included in most standard plans; see Business or Enterprise plans ). However, it’s …

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M365 Defender for Business security recommendations

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For some time now, I have been using M365 Defender for Business in my small tenant without Intune Management. This allows small networks to be monitored very well via the cloud. At regular intervals, I also look at the “Security recommendations”. During this routine check, however, I was somewhat shocked. After all, no alerts, which …

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M365 Monitor action in Safe attachments policy will retire

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Microsoft recently announced in the M365 Administration Center notifications that they will be making some adjustments to the paid feature “Safe Attachments.” Specifically, the “Monitor” function will no longer be available. All rules with “Monitor” will be switched to “BLOCK” in February 2025. See Microsoft’s notification for more details: Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (Defender for …

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