Setting up alerts for security and compliance in Microsoft Teams

As a Microsoft Teams administrator, you will need to regularly monitor your environment to ensure that user activities are in line with the policies and settings that you have put in place. To do this, you can create alert policies from the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center. You can monitor for activities, such as when teams were created or deleted, or when the settings of a team have been modified.

Important note

In the following steps, we will use the security and compliance center. However, the audit log search may now also be carried out from the compliance center at https://compliance.microsoft.com.

This can be achieved by completing the following steps:

1. Log in to the security and compliance center at https://protection.office.com and navigate to Search | Audit log search:

   Figure 5.26 – Audit log search in the security and compliance center

2. Under the search option, type in...