Defender for Email Anti-Spam Policy Modification

This guide will provide background information on modifying an existing anti-spam threat policy.

Role Requirements

Procedure Scope: Administrators

Required Group Membership: Admin.Security

Handbook Reference

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Domain: TBD

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Modifying an Anti-Spam Threat Policy

1. Navigate to the Anti-Spam Policies – Microsoft Defender portal, locate and select the policy you wish to alter.
   
2. Upon opening the policy, all the information of the policy will be displayed. Five points of interest will be available to Edit. You can modify the sections as needed.
   
   1. Description: Adjusts non-functional items of the rule, such as the Name or Description of the rule.
      
   2. Users and Domains: Specifies which Users, Groups, or Owned Domains that will be included or excluded from policy enforcement.
      
   3. Bulk Email Threshold & Spam Properties: Specifies the filters that will be applied to emails for a compliance match.
      
   4. Actions: Specifies how messages will be handled when they fail this threat policy check.
      
   5. Allowed and Blocked Senders and Domains: Specify Users or Domains that are allowed to bypass filtering or are always enforced by filtering.
      
3. Regardless of which section is selected to be Edited, the same redirect to the Edit page will be displayed. This page will display the selected sections current configuration and will allow you to make the necessary adjustments (additions, removals, editing, etc.) Once the necessary adjustments have been configured for the desired section select Save.
   
4. You will be redirected back to the policy overview page, if all the necessary adjustments look correct, select Close to finalize modification process.
   

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