Defender Web Filter Category Allowance

This guide will show an administrator how to reinstate a web category that has currently been restricted for end users to access.

Role Requirements

Procedure Scope: Administrators

Required Group Membership: Admin.Security

Handbook Reference

Package: TBD

Domain: TBD

Modifies: TBD

 Defender Web Filter Category Allowance

1. Navigate to the Web Content Filtering – Microsoft Defender portal, locate and select the policy you wish to alter. When selected configured settings for the policy will be displayed, select Edit to start the modification process.
   
2. Upon opening the policy, all the information of the policy will be displayed. From the General section we will want to select Next to continue to the Blocked Categories section.
   
3. From the Blocked Categories section, we will be able to deselect the desired web traffic categories that are currently having blocked access assignments, this will reinstate end users access to web sites that fall within these classifications.
   
4. From the Scope section we will want to select Next to continue to the Summary section to verify that our category allowances have been properly configured.
   
5. From the Summary section, verify that the previously removed category enforcements from the Blocked Categories section are no longer generating in the list, if they are select Back to traverse back to the Blocked Categories section and reconfigure the deselection of the desired categories to create the proper allowance. If all the necessary modifications are properly generating, select Submit to finalize the web category allowance process.
   

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