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Unable to find the security alert in M365 Defender referenced in an email alert.
This happens a lot. I get these emails from Office365Alerts notifying our team that "A medium-severity alert has been triggered". At the bottom of the email is a link to "View alert details". When I ...
Hi Anthony-123,
are you opening this link in a browser logged-in as an Administrator or normal user?
Try to click on the "View alert details" with the right mouse button, then click on the "Copy hyperlink" and paste it in a browser where you are allready logged-in as an Administrator or paste it in a Private Mode browser and log-in with you Admin user.
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Leon Pavesic
(LinkedIn)
- I'm logged in as myself, the admin.
I can use the filter to find other alerts. Is there some way to see if these particular alerts aren't visible to me?Hi Anthony-123,
just to eliminate all, can you try to reset the filter completely and try to see if you can find this alert in the list of all alerts.You can use "CTRL" + "F" and try to search for Unusual volume of file sharing
If you can´t find it, are you a Global Administrator, what kind of Admin is your user? Do you have a Global Admin user to test it (open this) alert?Please click Mark as Best Response & Like if my post helped you to solve your issue.
This will help others to find the correct solution easily. It also closes the item.If the post was useful in other ways, please consider giving it Like.
Kindest regards,
Leon Pavesic
(LinkedIn)Azure / Entra ID confirms I'm the Global Admin.
My alerts look different than yours. How did you get to "View Alerts"?
