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Use this document to resolve one bounded operational decision: Scope Defender for Identity visibility to explicit domains and organizational units. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.

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Source fact:

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The official Configure scoped access for Microsoft Defender for Identity from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:

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Do not import neighboring assumptions into the source record. The supported task is a scoped comparison involving identity detections, contributing events, entities, alert logic, tuning, exclusions, investigation, and response decisions and the conditions the source actually describes.

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What the source does not establish

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Scoping visibility is not data deletion or a substitute for separation of duties; test both permitted and denied views. The citation is not a substitute for observed state, authorization, compliance evidence, or dependency health. Examine Active Directory, Windows DNS, sensor health, time, network visibility, cloud analytics, endpoint evidence, and security operations before translating the source into an operational decision.

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Applicability questions

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DSE recommendation:

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DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Use a two-person review for the source interpretation and the resulting operational decision. Record the source location, examined part of identity detections, contributing events, entities, alert logic, tuning, exclusions, investigation, and response decisions, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.

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Translate the conclusion into change control only after documenting dependencies, impact, test method, expected signals, failure signals, and restoration steps. Include Active Directory, Windows DNS, sensor health, time, network visibility, cloud analytics, endpoint evidence, and security operations, while excluding secrets and sensitive personal or topology data from ordinary tickets.

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Verification and evidence

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Build a reproducible chain from Opening overview; Opening configuration description to the observed environment. Useful domain evidence includes sanitized alerts, source events, entity timelines, tuning conditions, exclusion scope, analyst findings, and response outcomes; label every item with scope, timestamp, collector, and stable identifier.

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Close the review only when the evidence, exception handling, resulting action, and after-state are linked. Schedule a new review after material technical, organizational, incident, or source changes; today’s observation is not a continuing guarantee.

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Official references

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