#About Policies for Microsoft 365

Policies for Microsoft 365 enables you to mitigate risk by enforcing controls to secure your Microsoft 365 environment. By assigning policies and pre-configured rules to Microsoft 365 object types, including SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 users, and security groups and distribution lists, Policies for Microsoft 365 monitors user activities and changes within your Microsoft 365 and then generates reports for identified violations. It also supports automatically fixing out-of-policy issues. Policies for Microsoft 365 ensures that all actions and changes to your Microsoft 365 workspace remain within your organization’s defined governance policy and are under control.

#Policies & Insights for Microsoft 365

Policies & Insights for Microsoft 365 helps to find, prioritize, and fix permissions, membership, and configuration issues across your workspaces. Policies & Insights can monitor Microsoft 365 objects, including Teams, Groups, users, SharePoint, and OneDrive to automatically detect, notify, and revert configuration drift or security risks – giving you more control over your content, external sharing, and settings.

Policies & Insights for Microsoft 365 makes it easy to run tenant-wide security reports, transforming traditional security reporting by adding context. Aggregated sensitivity and activity data across Microsoft objects, including Teams, Groups, users, SharePoint, and OneDrive, ensures your most critical issues are prioritized for action. Then, edit permissions and settings in bulk, and set policies to be enforced automatically.

Policies for Microsoft 365 can work with the Insights for Microsoft 365 service in the AvePoint Online Services platform to empower your users to comprehend risky data and sensitivity factors across your entire Microsoft 365 tenant.

If you would like to obtain the subscription for Insights for Microsoft 365, contact your AvePoint account manager. For more information on Insights for Microsoft 365, refer to the AvePoint Insights User Guide.

#Elements Integration

If you use Elements to manage Microsoft 365 policies, you can efficiently export existing policy configurations as reusable templates and apply them to other Microsoft 365 tenants directly within the platform. This feature simplifies policy deployment consistency and accelerates setup for partner-managed environments.

For step-by-step guidance on creating, managing, and deploying policy templates in Elements, refer to the Use Nitro section in the Elements User Guide.

#Supported Languages

Policies for Microsoft 365 supports the following languages: English, Japanese, French, German, and Chinese. The display language of Policies for Microsoft 365 depends on the display language of your browser. If the default language of the browser you are using is not one of the supported languages, the display language will be English.

#Supported Browsers

The table below outlines the required browser versions to support Policies for Microsoft 365.

Browser	Version
Internet Explorer	IE 11
Google Chrome	The latest version
Mozilla Firefox	The latest version
Microsoft Edge	The latest version
Microsoft Edge based on Chromium	The latest version

#Policies for Microsoft 365 Versions: Insider and Production

There are two versions of Policies for Microsoft 365: a version for preview features and a version for generally available features.

The insider version was created for users who want to see and test new product features before they are generally available in your production tenant. If you would like to join the Policies for Microsoft 365 insider program, contact your AvePoint account manager to subscribe. When you are ready to access the Policies for Microsoft 365 insider environment, make sure you have a non-production Microsoft 365 tenant, and use this test tenant in the insider environment.

The production version has two environments: an environment for commercial use and an environment available on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform for the U.S. Government.

All versions and environments are covered in this guide. Refer to the details below for differences.

• Sign-in address

  • Insider environment - https://insider.avepointonlineservices.com

  • Commercial Production Environment - https://www.avepointonlineservices.com

  • U.S. Government Production Environment - https://usgov.avepointonlineservices.com

• Sign-in method

  • Insider environment

    • Local account

    • Microsoft 365 account

  • Commercial Production Environment

    • Local account

    • Microsoft 365 account

  • U.S. Government Production Environment

    • Local account

    • Microsoft 365 account

    • Microsoft 365 U.S. Government account

• Supported data centers

  • Insider environment

    • East US (Virginia)

    • North Europe (Ireland)

  • Commercial Production Environment

    • Australia Southeast (Victoria)

    • Canada Central (Toronto)

    • East US (Virginia)

    • France Central (Paris)

    • Germany West Central (Frankfurt)

    • Japan West (Osaka)

    • Korea Central (Seoul)

    • North Europe (Ireland)

    • Southeast Asia (Singapore)

    • Switzerland North (Zurich)

    • UK South (London)

    • West Europe (Netherlands)

  • U.S. Government Production Environment

    • US Gov Virginia (Virginia)

#Integration with Ava

Policies for Microsoft 365 offers integration with Ava, an AvePoint virtual assistant that offers instructions and answers to your questions. If you have any product-related inquiries, Ava is readily available to assist you. You can click the Ask Ava button in the upper-right corner and try to chat with Ava and get some instructions.