Security News > 2021 > January > Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to allow testing without setup
Microsoft wants to add a new Office 365 feature to allow customers to test Microsoft Defender email protection without actually having to configure the environment and devices for your organization.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 provides Office 365 enterprise accounts with email protection from several threats including credential phishing and business email compromise, as well as automated remediation of detected attacks.
The soon-to-be-released evaluation experience is designed to help admins focus on evaluating Microsoft Defender for Office 365 capabilities and on eliminating the complexities of environment and device configuration.
This means that, after enabling Defender for Office 365 evaluation mode in your environment, emails will get scanned and evaluated without having to make any changes in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
"The feature can be configured by all customers that have Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes, and provides a report that quantifies the messages that would have been blocked by Defender for Office 365 had the policies taken action," Microsoft says.
This evaluation mode requires a Billing admin or a Global admin role and it only applies to email protection features of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 - doesn't apply to SharePoint, Office Clients, or Teams.