SharePoint Online: How to Create Alerts in Office 365 Security & Compliance Center?

The Office 365 Compliance & Security center lets you create alerts for specific events in SharePoint Online sites, such as permission changes, file-folder manipulation, etc. Let’s see how to create an alert when someone shares a file or folder with external users in SharePoint Online:

Create Alert Policy for SharePoint Online in Security & Compliance Center

Here are the steps to create alerts in Office 365 security & compliance site:

• Login to Office 365 Security & Compliance Center at https://protection.office.com
• Expand “Alerts” in left navigation >> Click on “Alert Policies” >> Click on the “New Alert Policy” button.

  

• Provide a name for your alert, add description, severity and select category and click on “Next”
• Select the Activity from the drop-down. In my case, I’ve selected “Shared file externally”. Choose when to trigger an alert. You can also add a condition for this alert. E.g. events on a specific site collection.
• Configure recipients (User to whom the alerts will be sent) and daily notification limits.
•  Review the alert settings and click on the “Finish” button to complete creating the alert.

  

You should see the “Alert Policy has been created” popup message, and here is the alert in action when someone shares a file or folder with external users: