Microsoft Defender XDR
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Import Rbac Roles

In brief

The page refreshes metadata and clarifies permission prerequisites, Defender unified RBAC role terminology, activation instructions, and the relationship between imported roles and their source roles.

What Defender admins need to know

Administrators get more precise links and guidance when importing and managing roles.

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  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 The following steps guide you on how to import roles into Microsoft Defender unified RBAC:
  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Defender portal.

  2. Select Done on the confirmation page.

After importing your roles, you are be able to View and edit Defender unified RBAC roles and activate the workloads.

You need to activate the new Defender unified RBAC model to start enforcing the permissions and assignments configured in your new or imported roles within the Microsoft Defender portal. For more information, see Activate Microsoft Defender unified RBAC.

Imported roles appear in the Permissions and roles list together with any custom roles you created. All imported roles are marked as Imported in the description. Once you edit an imported role, it will no longer be marked as Imported.

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