Lab 4: Control sign-in and protect communications
Identity and communication controls work best when you scope them narrowly, read the resulting evidence, and change only the setting that caused the observed result. In this lab, you configure sign-in recovery for nonadmin test users, evaluate a Conditional Access policy safely in report-only mode, set Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protection scope for Finance, and interpret sample investigation evidence before you create a draft follow-up training campaign.
You continue in the same Microsoft 365 E7 tenant from Lab 3. Lynne Robbins and Alex Wilber act as nonadmin engineering testers, Patti Fernandez acts as the Finance sign-in tester, and the seeded Finance Users group anchors the Conditional Access work. You create a mail-enabled Finance Mail group for the Defender for Office 365 work.
This lab contains four exercises:
- Exercise 1: Configure method and recovery policy
- Exercise 2: Resolve an access decision
- Exercise 3: Set effective protection scope
- Exercise 4: Investigate and plan training
This lab takes approximately 100 minutes to complete.
Learning objectives
By the end of this lab, you’ll be able to:
- Scope a passkey authentication method and self-service password reset (SSPR) to a test group, then compare enabled, registered, and capable states.
- Configure tenant password protection settings and complete one supported SSPR test without using a personal phone.
- Create a human-user Conditional Access policy in report-only mode, then interpret sign-in log and What If results.
- Scope Defender for Office 365 anti-spam and anti-phishing policies to a mail-enabled Finance group, and confirm Safe Attachments and Safe Links coverage.
- Interpret sample threat and risk evidence without treating it as a live tenant event, then save a training campaign as a draft.
[!IMPORTANT] Keep your administrator account and any emergency-access account out of Conditional Access policy assignments. Do not enforce the Conditional Access policy in this lab.
Before you start
You complete this lab signed in as a tenant administrator. The following conditions are provided by the lab environment, so you don’t set them up:
| Provided by the environment | Detail |
|---|---|
| Tenant | The Lab 3 Microsoft 365 E7 tenant with an assigned *.onmicrosoft.com domain. |
| People | Nine ready-to-use licensed people. You use Lynne Robbins, Alex Wilber, Megan Bowen, Patti Fernandez, and Nestor Wilke in this lab. |
| Seeded groups | Finance Users is a security group without email that contains Patti Fernandez and Nestor Wilke. Lynne Robbins and Alex Wilber hold no administrator roles. |
| Test client | SEA-DEV2, where you sign in as sample people to test SSPR and Conditional Access evidence. |
| Evidence files | Sample evidence for sign-in risk and threat investigation is in the assets folder. The evidence is not from your tenant. |
| Known absent records | No risk detections, Explorer messages, alerts, incidents, or automated investigation and response recommendations are seeded. |
| Your access | An administrator account with the roles noted at the start of each exercise. |
You keep the work you create in this lab. Later exercises and later labs build on it, so there’s no end-of-lab cleanup.
Exercise 1: Configure method and recovery policy
Estimated time: 25 minutes.
Scenario
The security team wants passkeys and self-service password reset available only to a small engineering test group. You create the group, scope passkeys and SSPR to it, register Lynne Robbins for SSPR, compare Lynne with Alex Wilber in the registration report, and run a real reset as Lynne.
Roles used: Authentication Policy Administrator and Privileged Authentication Administrator or equivalent administrator access to manage user authentication methods.
Task 1: Create the Engineering group and scope passkeys
Each authentication method has its own targeting. Scoping passkeys to Engineering doesn’t retarget other methods. For current passkey targeting guidance, see How to enable passkeys (FIDO2) in Microsoft Entra ID.
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On SEA-DEV1, in Microsoft Edge, go to the Microsoft Entra admin center at
https://entra.microsoft.comand sign in with your administrator account. -
Select Entra ID > Groups > All groups, then select New group.
- Enter the following values:
- Group type: Security
- Group name:
Engineering - Membership type: Assigned
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Under Members, select No members selected. Search for and select Lynne Robbins and Alex Wilber, then select Select.
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Select Create.
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Select Entra ID > Authentication methods > Policies.
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Select Passkey (FIDO2). On the Enable and target tab, confirm that Enable is On.
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On the Include tab, select Add target > Select targets. Select Engineering, and then select Select.
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In the Engineering row, open Passkey profiles and select Default passkey profile.
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In the All users row, select the Delete icon. Only Engineering remains on the Include tab.
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Select Save.
- Confirm that the Passkey (FIDO2) row shows 1 group as the target and Yes under Enabled.
You have successfully created the Engineering group and scoped passkeys to it.
Task 2: Configure password protection and SSPR
Password protection improves password quality and slows guessing attacks. SSPR controls whether users can recover their own account. For password protection settings, see Configure custom banned passwords for Microsoft Entra password protection.
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In the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Authentication methods > Password protection.
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Set Enforce custom list to Yes.
- In Custom banned password list, add the following lab-only banned terms on separate lines:
contosoengineeringpasswordwelcome
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Review the Lockout threshold and Lockout duration in seconds values, and leave them at the tenant defaults.
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Select Save on the toolbar. Confirm that Save is unavailable after the change is saved.
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Select Entra ID > Password reset > Properties.
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Set Self service password reset enabled to Selected.
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Under Select group, select the group link, select Engineering, and then choose Select.
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Select Save. Confirm the Password reset policy saved notification.
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Under Manage, select Authentication methods.
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Set Number of methods required to reset to 1.
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Under Methods available to users, make sure Security questions is cleared, and then select Save.
[!NOTE] Security questions are retiring for SSPR in March 2027, so this lab doesn’t use them. Email, Microsoft Authenticator, and other methods are controlled by the authentication methods policy. In this tenant, Email OTP is already enabled for all users. Administrator accounts always use a stricter two-method reset policy that you can’t change.
You have successfully configured password protection and SSPR for the Engineering group.
Task 3: Register Lynne Robbins for SSPR
Lynne needs an SSPR-eligible method before the report can show her as capable. You add a lab-only alternate email that points to Megan’s mailbox, so no personal phone is required. For SSPR registration behavior, see Self-service password reset frequently asked questions.
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On SEA-DEV1, in the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Users, and then select Lynne Robbins.
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Under Manage, select Authentication methods. Note that Lynne already has Microsoft Authenticator registered.
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Select Add authentication method on the toolbar. In Choose method, select Email.
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In Email address, enter
MeganB@<yourtenant>.onmicrosoft.com, and then select Add. You read the verification code in Megan’s mailbox in Task 4. -
Confirm that Email appears under Usable authentication methods with Megan’s address.
You have successfully registered Lynne Robbins for SSPR.
Task 4: Compare registration states and run SSPR
The registration report can lag after a method or policy change. Use the live report, wait and refresh when needed, and don’t substitute a CSV or sample fallback. For report fields, see Authentication Methods Activity.
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On SEA-DEV1, in the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Authentication methods > User registration details.
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Find the Lynne Robbins row. Confirm that SSPR Registered shows Registered, SSPR Enabled shows Enabled, SSPR Capable shows Capable, and Methods Registered lists Email and Microsoft Authenticator.
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Find the Alex Wilber row. Confirm that SSPR Enabled shows Enabled while SSPR Registered shows Not Registered and SSPR Capable shows Not Capable. Alex is in scope but has no methods.
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If the report doesn’t yet show Lynne’s new state, check Last Updated Time, select Refresh, and wait a few minutes before checking again. Record the comparison only after the live report shows both rows.
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Switch to SEA-DEV2. Open an InPrivate window, go to
https://aka.ms/sspr, and enterLynneR@<yourtenant>.onmicrosoft.com. -
If a character verification appears, complete it. Select Next.
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Select Email my alternate email, and then select Email.
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On SEA-DEV1, open an InPrivate window, go to
https://outlook.office.com, and sign in asMeganB@<yourtenant>.onmicrosoft.com. If Your privacy matters appears, select Continue. Open the Contoso account email verification code message, copy the code, and close the InPrivate window. -
Switch to SEA-DEV2, enter the code, and select Next.
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On Create a new password, enter and confirm a new password for Lynne Robbins, and then select Finish. Confirm that Your password has been reset appears.
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Go to
https://outlook.office.com, and sign in as Lynne Robbins with the new password to confirm the reset worked. -
Close the InPrivate window.
You have successfully compared SSPR registration states and completed a real SSPR reset for Lynne Robbins.
Exercise 2: Resolve an access decision
Estimated time: 30 minutes.
Scenario
The Finance team needs a Conditional Access policy that requires multifactor authentication and a compliant device for SharePoint. You create the policy in report-only mode, read how it would apply to Patti Fernandez, use What If for a legacy-client input, and interpret a sample risk case without generating live risk detections.
Roles used: Conditional Access Administrator, Security Reader, and Reports Reader or equivalent access to sign-in logs.
Task 1: Create the Finance report-only policy
Report-only mode lets you evaluate a Conditional Access policy without enforcing the result. For safe evaluation, see Analyze Conditional Access Policy Impact.
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On SEA-DEV1, in the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Conditional Access > Policies.
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On the toolbar, select New policy.
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In Name, enter
Finance - Require MFA and compliant device. -
Under Users or agents, select 0 users or agents selected. On the Include tab, select Select users and groups, then select the Users and groups checkbox.
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In Select users and groups, search for and select Finance Users, then select Select.
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Select the Exclude tab, then select the Users and groups checkbox. Search for and select MOD Administrator, then select Select.
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Under Target resources, select No target resources selected. On the Include tab, select Select resources.
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Under Select specific resources, select None. Search for
Office 365, select Office 365 SharePoint Online, then select Select.Note: The wizard recommends targeting the Office 365 app instead and warns that SharePoint Online also affects apps such as Microsoft Teams. Keep Office 365 SharePoint Online for this lab.
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Under Conditions, select 0 conditions selected, then select Client apps > Not configured.
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Set Configure to Yes. Clear Exchange ActiveSync clients and Other clients so that only Browser and Mobile apps and desktop clients remain selected, then select Done.
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Under Grant, select 0 controls selected. Confirm that Grant access is selected, then select Require multifactor authentication and Require device to be marked as compliant.
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Under For multiple controls, confirm that Require all the selected controls is selected, then select Select.
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Confirm that Enable policy is set to Report-only.
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Under the device-certificate warning, keep Exclude device platforms macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux from this policy selected, then select Create.
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On the toolbar, select Refresh. Confirm that
Finance - Require MFA and compliant deviceappears with State set to Report-only.
You have successfully created the Finance Conditional Access policy in report-only mode.
Task 2: Read the report-only result for Patti
A sign-in with no visible prompt can still satisfy MFA through an existing claim. Read the sign-in record instead of judging only by the prompt.
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Switch to SEA-DEV2. Open an InPrivate window, go to
https://<yourtenant>.sharepoint.com, and sign in asPattiF@<yourtenant>.onmicrosoft.comwith the user password provided by your lab hoster. -
Confirm that SharePoint opens or shows the expected access result for Patti.
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Close the InPrivate window.
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Switch to SEA-DEV1. In the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Monitoring & health > Sign-in logs.
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Filter the logs for Patti Fernandez and the application Office 365 SharePoint Online.
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Open the matching sign-in event.
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Select the Conditional Access or Report-only tab.
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Locate
Finance - Require MFA and compliant device, then record the report-only result, such as Report-only: Success, Report-only: Failure, Report-only: User action required, or Not applied. -
Select Authentication Details and Device Info. Record whether MFA was already satisfied and whether the device was reported as compliant.
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Confirm that the policy stayed in Report-only and did not block Patti’s sign-in.
You have successfully interpreted Patti’s report-only Conditional Access result.
Task 3: Evaluate a legacy-client input with What If
What If estimates whether policies apply to the inputs you select. It doesn’t run an authentication attempt.
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On SEA-DEV1, in the Microsoft Entra admin center, select Entra ID > Conditional Access > Policies, then select What if on the toolbar.
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Under Identity, confirm that Users is selected, then select Edit user. Search for and select Patti Fernandez, then select Select.
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Under Target resource, confirm that Cloud apps is selected, then select Select cloud app. Search for
Office 365, select Office 365 SharePoint Online, then select Select. -
Under Sign-in conditions, set Device platform to Windows.
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Set Client app to Mobile apps and desktop clients - Other clients. This option represents legacy authentication clients.
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At the bottom of the form, select What if.
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Under Evaluation result, select Policies that will not apply. Confirm that
Finance - Require MFA and compliant deviceis listed with Client app as the reason. -
Change Client app to Browser, then select What if again.
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Select Policies that will apply. Confirm that
Finance - Require MFA and compliant deviceis listed with Require multifactor authentication AND Require compliant device and State set to Report-only.
You have successfully used What If to compare a legacy-client input with a browser input.
Task 4: Interpret the sample risk case
No risk detections are seeded in this tenant. Use the sample case in 04-signin-evidence.md to reason about policy interactions without searching for live risk events.
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Open
04-signin-evidence.md. -
Read Report-only policies in scope and Sign-in event B - compliant device, high sign-in risk.
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Write the applicable policy list for a Finance user signing in to SharePoint from a compliant device during a high-risk sign-in.
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Write the predicted combined result.
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Write the smallest correction needed to produce the intended result. Use the sample evidence to decide whether the correction is a user registration fix, a device compliance fix, or a policy-scope fix.
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Write the rollback and safeguard: return the policy to report-only or its prior state, and confirm that emergency-access accounts stay excluded.
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Confirm that your answer clearly labels the case as sample evidence, not a live risk detection.
You have successfully interpreted the sample risk case and selected the smallest correction.
Exercise 3: Set effective protection scope
Estimated time: 25 minutes.
Scenario
Finance receives messages from a supplier domain and needs the right inbound protection. You confirm which protection applies today, create a mail-enabled Finance group that Defender policies can target, create a Finance-scoped anti-spam policy, add impersonation protection for woodgrovebank.com, and confirm collaboration protection for shared files and Teams links.
Roles used: Exchange Administrator to create the mail-enabled group, and Security Administrator for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 policy settings.
Task 1: Inspect existing protection for Finance
Preset security policies take precedence over custom policies for the same feature. For precedence details, see Preset security policies in cloud organizations.
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On SEA-DEV1, in Microsoft Edge, go to the Microsoft Defender portal at
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Select Email & collaboration > Policies & rules > Threat policies.
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Under Templated policies, select Preset Security Policies.
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Confirm that Standard protection is off and Strict protection is off. Built-in protection applies to all users.
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Select Threat policies in the breadcrumb, then under Policies, select Anti-spam.
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Confirm that only the (Default) policies are listed, so no custom anti-spam policy targets Finance yet.
You have successfully inspected the current protection scope for Finance.
Task 2: Create a mail-enabled Finance group
Defender for Office 365 policies can target only mail-enabled security groups or Microsoft 365 groups. The seeded Finance Users group is a security group without email, so you create Finance Mail with the same members.
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In a new tab, go to the Microsoft 365 admin center at
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Select Teams & groups > Active teams & groups, then select the Security groups tab.
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Select Add a mail-enabled security group.
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In Name, enter
Finance Mail, then select Next. -
Search for and select your administrator account as the owner, then select Next.
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Add Patti Fernandez and Nestor Wilke as members, then select Next.
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In the group email address, enter
financemail. Leave the option to allow external senders cleared, then select Next. -
Select Create group, then select Close.
You have successfully created the mail-enabled Finance group.
Task 3: Create the Finance inbound anti-spam policy
The default anti-spam policy moves spam and high confidence spam to Junk Email and quarantines phishing and high confidence phishing. For Finance, you quarantine high confidence spam too. For policy steps, see Configure anti-spam policies in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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In the Microsoft Defender portal, on Anti-spam policies, select Create policy > Inbound.
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In Name, enter
Finance inbound anti-spam. In Description, enterFinance inbound spam policy for AB-650 Lab 4, then select Next. -
On Users, groups, and domains, in Groups, enter
Finance Mail, select it from the suggestions, then select Next. -
On Bulk email threshold & spam properties, keep the defaults, then select Next.
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On Actions, set High confidence spam to Quarantine message. In Select quarantine policy, select DefaultFullAccessPolicy.
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Keep the other actions at their defaults, then select Next until you reach Review.
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Select Create, then select Done.
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Confirm that
Finance inbound anti-spamshows Status On and Priority 0. A lower number has higher priority.
You have successfully created the Finance inbound anti-spam policy.
Task 4: Add supplier impersonation protection
The harmless supplier-verification mail in the tenant is context only. It isn’t a detection, and you don’t search for it as a Defender event.
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Select Threat policies in the breadcrumb, then select Anti-phishing.
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Select Create.
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In Name, enter
Finance supplier impersonation, then select Next. -
On Users, groups, and domains, in Groups, enter
Finance Mail, select it from the suggestions, then select Next. -
On Phishing threshold & protection, select Enable users to protect, then select Manage 0 sender(s).
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Select Add user. In Email, enter
ap-desk@woodgrovebank.com, then select the suggestion below the box. -
In Name, enter
Woodgrove Bank AP Desk, then select Add. -
Select Add, then select Done.
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Select Enable domains to protect, then select Include custom domains.
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Select Manage 0 custom domain(s) > Add domains. In Domain, enter
woodgrovebank.com, select the suggestion, then select Add domains > Done. -
Confirm that Enable mailbox intelligence (Recommended) is selected, then select Enable Intelligence for impersonation protection (Recommended). Select Next.
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On Actions, set If a message is detected as user impersonation to Quarantine the message, and in Apply quarantine policy, select DefaultFullAccessPolicy.
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Set If a message is detected as domain impersonation to Quarantine the message with DefaultFullAccessPolicy, then select Next.
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On Review, confirm that user impersonation is On for 1 user(s) and domain impersonation includes 1 custom domain(s).
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Select Submit, then select Done.
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Confirm that
Finance supplier impersonationshows Status On.
You have successfully added supplier impersonation protection for Finance.
Task 5: Confirm collaboration protection and run a negative check
Safe Attachments for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams is a global setting that doesn’t depend on Safe Attachments policies. Safe Links protection for Teams is on in the Built-in protection preset. For details, see Quickly configure Microsoft Teams protection.
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Select Threat policies in the breadcrumb, then select Safe Attachments.
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Select Global settings.
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Confirm that Turn on Defender for Office 365 for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams is On, then select Cancel.
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Select Threat policies in the breadcrumb, then select Safe Links.
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Confirm that Built-in protection (Microsoft) is the only policy, with Status On. Because no custom Safe Links policy takes precedence, Finance gets Teams link protection from Built-in protection.
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Select Threat policies in the breadcrumb, select Anti-spam, then select
Finance inbound anti-spam. -
In the details pane, select Turn off, then select Turn off to confirm.
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Confirm that the pane shows **Policy off Priority 0**. A policy that’s off doesn’t apply to Finance, even at the highest priority. -
Select Turn on, then select Turn on to confirm.
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Confirm that the pane shows **Policy on Priority 0, then select **Close.
You have successfully confirmed collaboration protection and proved that an off policy doesn’t apply.
Exercise 4: Investigate and plan training
Estimated time: 20 minutes.
Scenario
The message, alert, incident, and automated investigation records in this exercise are sample evidence, not tenant records. You use the sample threat evidence to practice correlation and decision-making, then create a draft training campaign for lab-only recipients.
Roles used: Security Reader to inspect Defender areas and Attack Simulation Administrator or Security Administrator to create a draft training campaign.
Task 1: Interpret the sample message and incident evidence
The fields in the sample case match the types of fields you would review in Defender. Do not search the portal for the fictional subject, Network Message ID, alert, or incident.
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Open
04-threat-evidence.md. -
Read Simulation training report - “Finance reporting practice”. Record that the simulation report has no Network Message ID, alert, or incident.
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Read Real message - email entity timeline. Record the recipient, subject, sender, Threat Explorer verdict, Network Message ID, and timeline sequence.
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Read Alert correlated to incident. Confirm that the alert’s Network Message ID matches the message and that the sample incident is a single-alert incident.
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Write the defensible classification: True positive - Phishing.
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Optional: In the Microsoft Defender portal, select Email & collaboration > Explorer. Open the Sender address filter list to see the message fields you can filter on. Don’t search for the sample subject or IDs.
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Optional: Select Investigation & response > Incidents & alerts > Incidents to see where incident fields live. Don’t search for
INC-2026-0918. -
Confirm that your notes label the message, alert, and incident as sample evidence, not tenant evidence.
You have successfully interpreted the sample message and incident evidence.
Task 2: Decide what the pending recommendation needs
Automated investigation and response (AIR) recommendations can group more than one action. The sample case asks you to decide whether the evidence supports approving the grouped action.
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In
04-threat-evidence.md, read Pending AIR recommendation. -
Identify Message A and Message B.
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Record that Message A has a confirmed phish verdict and matching timeline.
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Record that Message B has no verdict or timeline of its own in these records.
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Write the decision: don’t approve the two-message soft-delete as one action until Message B has its own supporting evidence.
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Write the evidence that would unblock the action: Message B’s Network Message ID, verdict, timeline, and relationship to the incident.
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Confirm that your answer separates the completed ZAP remediation for Message A from the pending decision about the grouped AIR recommendation.
You have successfully decided what evidence the pending recommendation still needs.
Task 3: Create a draft follow-up training campaign
A training campaign assigns learning. It doesn’t require a phishing simulation and doesn’t create a Defender alert. For the campaign workflow, see Training campaigns in Attack simulation training.
[!IMPORTANT] Finish this task with Save and close. If you select Submit, the campaign launches and assigns training to Finance.
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In the Microsoft Defender portal, select Email & collaboration > Attack simulation training. If a welcome dialog appears, select Close.
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Select the Settings tab and note the Training threshold value. Leave it unchanged.
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Select the Training tab, then select Create new.
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In Training name, enter
Finance - phishing awareness follow-up, then select Next. -
On Target users, leave Include only specific users and groups selected, then select Add users.
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In Search for Users or Groups, enter
Financeand press Enter. Select Finance Mail, then select Add 1 User(s). -
Select Next. On the exclusion page, leave the exclusion check box cleared and select Next.
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On Select training modules, leave Training catalog selected and select Add trainings.
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Search for
phish, select Phishing — Six clues that should raise your suspicions, select Add, then select Next. -
On Select end user notification, leave Microsoft default notification (recommended) selected.
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In the reminder row, set Delivery preferences to Weekly.
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Optional: Select the preview (eye) icon for a notification to review the message, then select Close. Select Next.
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On Schedule, leave Launch this training campaign as soon as I’m done selected and clear Send training with an end date.
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Select Save and close.
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On Training Campaigns, confirm that
Finance - phishing awareness follow-upis listed and the Draft count is 1.
You have successfully created a draft follow-up training campaign.
If something doesn’t work
| Symptom | Likely cause | Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Lynne doesn’t appear as SSPR capable after registration | The registration report hasn’t refreshed yet. | Select Refresh, wait a few minutes, and refresh again. Don’t use a CSV substitute. |
| Lynne can’t complete SSPR | The email method isn’t registered, or Lynne isn’t in the Engineering group. | On SEA-DEV1, verify Lynne’s Authentication methods page and the Engineering members, then retry https://aka.ms/sspr. |
| Patti’s SharePoint sign-in isn’t in the sign-in logs yet | Sign-in log processing hasn’t completed. | Wait a few minutes, then filter by Patti Fernandez and Office 365 SharePoint Online again. |
| The Conditional Access result is Not applied | The selected user, application, or client app doesn’t match the policy scope. | Compare the sign-in event with the policy assignments and run What If with the same inputs. |
| Finance Users doesn’t appear in a Defender policy or training campaign | Defender policies and training campaigns accept only mail-enabled security groups or Microsoft 365 groups. | Select Finance Mail. If it doesn’t appear, complete Exercise 3, Task 2. |
| The Finance anti-spam policy seems ignored | A preset policy, higher-priority custom policy, or disabled state is controlling the result. | Inspect Preset security policies, custom policy priority, and the policy Status. |
| The sample message can’t be found in Defender | The message is sample evidence, not a tenant event. | Use 04-threat-evidence.md and don’t search the portal for the sample IDs. |
| The training wizard shows Please select default language and delivery preference | The reminder row’s Delivery preferences is empty. | Set Delivery preferences to Weekly. |
| Save and close shows Please select a valid launch datetime | A schedule-later option or an end date is selected without dates. | Select Launch this training campaign as soon as I’m done and clear Send training with an end date. |
| The training campaign doesn’t show Draft | The final wizard action was Submit, not Save and close. | On the Training tab, check the campaign status. If it’s In progress, tell your instructor; don’t create a second campaign. |
Summary
In this lab, you created an Engineering group for nonadmin testers, scoped passkeys and SSPR to it, configured password protection, registered Lynne Robbins for SSPR, compared Lynne and Alex in the registration report, and completed a real SSPR reset. You created the Finance Conditional Access policy in report-only mode, read Patti’s sign-in evidence, used What If with a legacy-client input, and interpreted a sample risk case without enforcing the policy. You inspected Defender for Office 365 preset scope, created a mail-enabled Finance group, created Finance anti-spam and anti-phishing policies, confirmed Safe Attachments and Safe Links collaboration protection, and proved that an off policy doesn’t apply. Finally, you interpreted sample threat evidence and saved a Finance training campaign as a draft.
You keep everything you created here. Lab 5 builds on this tenant to protect and govern information.