Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Cloud and workloadsConfigure Defender for Cloud Apps user email notifications
In brief
The page now describes customizing end-user email notifications with HTML templates, branding, titles, and content placeholders, and notes supported notification types and differences from admin notifications. It also updates the sample-template wording and page metadata.
What Defender admins need to know
Administrators can use the revised description to identify the relevant notification customization guidance; no action is required.
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Documentation change
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Sample email template
BelowThe following code is a sample email template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ --- title: Configure Defender for Cloud Apps user email notifications-description: Customize the email notifications Defender for Cloud Apps sends to end users when a breach is detected, including sender identity, email design templates, and scope limitations.-ms.date: 06/16/2026+description: Customize end-user email notifications in Defender for Cloud Apps by uploading HTML templates with branding, titles, and content placeholders. Learn which notification types support these customizations and how they differ from admin notifications.+ms.date: 07/03/2026 ms.topic: how-to ms.reviewer: Naama-Goldbart -ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange, msecd-doc-authoring-1014+ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange, msecd-doc-authoring-1016 ai-usage: ai-assisted --- @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The following types of notifications use the custom email templates: ## Sample email template -Below is a sample email template:+The following code is a sample email template: ```html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">