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Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

By : Peter Rising
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Book Image

Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

5 (1)
By: Peter Rising

Overview of this book

The Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration is designed to help you manage, implement, and monitor security and compliance solutions for Microsoft 365 environments. With this book, you’ll first configure, administer identity and access within Microsoft 365. You’ll learn about hybrid identity, authentication methods, and conditional access policies with Microsoft Intune. Next, you’ll discover how RBAC and Azure AD Identity Protection can be used to detect risks and secure information in your organization. You’ll also explore concepts such as Microsoft Defender for endpoint and identity, along with threat intelligence. As you progress, you’ll uncover additional tools and techniques to configure and manage Microsoft 365, including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to manage and implement security measures within your Microsoft 365 suite successfully.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Part 1: Implementing and Managing Identity and Access
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Part 2: Implementing and Managing Threat Protection
13
Part 3: Implementing and Managing Information Protection
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Part 4: Managing Compliance Features in Microsoft 365

Configuring retention labels and policies

In this section, we will learn how to create retention labels, retention label policies, and retention policies and apply them to Microsoft 365 workloads, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams, from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Retention labels are generally intended for when you need exceptions to your retention policies. Typically, you would use retention labels to retain specific items for longer periods than an applied retention policy. For example, you may set retention policies on SharePoint sites to retain content for five years. However, you may also have some documents within the SharePoint site that need to be retained for a longer period—say seven years—for regulatory compliance reasons. Retention labels could be applied to that content. First, we will see how retention labels are used at the item level and applied to content with retention label policies, and then how retention...