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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- m365-security
- tier3
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10141016 ms.topic: how-to ms.date:06/15/07/02/2026 ms.reviewer: appliesto: - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 The following steps guide you on how to import roles into Microsoft Defender unified RBAC:
Sign in to the Microsoft Defender portal.
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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@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ ms.localizationpriority: medium ms.collection: - m365-security - tier3-ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1014+ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1016 ms.topic: how-to-ms.date: 06/15/2026+ms.date: 07/02/2026 ms.reviewer: appliesto: - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Importing roles migrates and maintains the roles with full parity in relation to The following steps guide you on how to import roles into Microsoft Defender unified RBAC: > [!IMPORTANT]-> You must be a Security Administrator or higher in Microsoft Entra ID, or have all the **Authorization** permissions assigned in Microsoft Defender Unified RBAC to perform this task. For more information on permissions, see [Permission pre-requisites](manage-rbac.md#permissions-prerequisites).+> You must be a Security Administrator or higher in Microsoft Entra ID, or have all the **Authorization** permissions assigned in Microsoft Defender Unified RBAC to perform this task. For more information on permissions, see [Permissions prerequisites for Defender unified RBAC](manage-rbac.md#permissions-prerequisites). 1. Sign in to the [Microsoft Defender portal](https://security.microsoft.com). @@ -68,20 +68,20 @@ The following steps guide you on how to import roles into Microsoft Defender uni 9. Select **Done** on the confirmation page. -After importing your roles, you are be able to [View and edit roles](edit-delete-rbac-roles.md) and activate the workloads.+After importing your roles, you are be able to [View and edit Defender unified RBAC roles](edit-delete-rbac-roles.md) 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 the workloads](activate-defender-rbac.md).+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](activate-defender-rbac.md). 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**. > [!NOTE]-> You can import roles as frequently as required. After you edit an imported role, the changes will not affect the original role where it was imported from. Because changes to an imported role don't affect the original role, you can delete the imported role and re-import the original role, if necessary. If you import the same role twice, you create a duplicate role.+> You can import roles as frequently as required. After you edit an imported role, the changes don't affect the source role in the original RBAC model. Because changes to an imported role don't affect the source role, you can delete the imported role and re-import it from the original RBAC model, if necessary. If you import the same role twice, you create a duplicate role. <a name="next-steps"></a> ## Related content - [Activate Microsoft Defender unified RBAC](activate-defender-rbac.md)-- [Edit or delete roles](edit-delete-rbac-roles.md)+- [Edit or delete Defender unified RBAC roles](edit-delete-rbac-roles.md) [!INCLUDE [Microsoft Defender XDR rebranding](../includes/defender-m3d-techcommunity.md)] 