Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert MS-102 Practice Question
While configuring a custom alert policy in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, you need the policy to generate an alert only after a user receives five or more phishing messages within a 30-minute window. However, the fields to define the number of activities and the time interval are not available in the wizard. Which change enables you to expose and configure these threshold settings?
Switch the alert trigger to "When activities match rule conditions" instead of "Every time an activity matches."
Add the mailbox as a scoped entity instead of applying the policy to all users.
The ability to enter a numeric threshold and time window is exposed only when the alert policy is set to trigger "when activities match rule conditions" rather than "every time an activity matches." Selecting the threshold-based trigger lets you specify both the minimum number of matching activities (five) and the aggregation window (30 minutes). Adjusting severity, category, or scoping settings does not display the threshold controls; they affect alert prioritization or targeting but not how often the alert fires.
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