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Alert Policies Defender Portal

In brief

The article now explains how to select a built-in rule on the Alert tuning page and choose Disable, with a supporting screenshot.

What Defender admins need to know

Administrators can use these documented steps when they need to disable a built-in alert tuning rule.

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The Microsoft Security Copilot Phishing Triage Agent doesn't classify alerts suppressed by alert tuning. Be sure to disable the Auto-Resolve - Email reported by user as malware or phish built-in alert tuning rule and any custom tuning rules that suppress this alert.

Disable a built-in alert tuning rule

To disable a built-in alert tuning rule, follow these steps:

  1. On the Alert tuning page, select the built-in rule.

  2. In the rule details pane, select Disable.

    Screenshot of a built-in alert tuning rule details pane with the Disable action.

Open alert policies

In the Microsoft Defender portal at https://security.microsoft.com, go to Email & collaboration > Policies & rules > Alert policy. Or, to go directly to the Alert policy page, use https://security.microsoft.com/alertpoliciesv2.