#Policies

To monitor user activities and changes within your Microsoft 365 tenants, you need to create policies based on your organization’s governance. By adding rules to a policy and assigning the policy to a scope, the corresponding actions and changes within the scope will be monitored. Policies can be managed on a service level to only monitor the objects in a specific object type within a limited scope, or they can be managed on a tenant level to monitor objects in the entire tenant.

Each policy displays a corresponding object type icon, representing the object type for which the policy is created.

Policy Level	Object Type	Icon
Service level	SharePoint site
Service level	OneDrive
Service level	Microsoft 365 Group
Service level	Microsoft Team
Service level	Microsoft 365 user
Service level	Exchange mailbox
Service level	Security and distribution group
Tenant level	Tenant

Each policy displays its corresponding status, representing the status which the policy is in now.