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When you investigate a specific user entity, you see the following tabs on its entity page:
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-[Overview](#overview), including entity details, incidents and alerts visual view, investigation priority, and scored timeline
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-[Overview](#overview), including entity details, incidents and alerts visual view, user account control flags and so on.
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-[Incidents and alerts](#incidents-and-alerts) tab
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-[Observed in organization](#observed-in-organization) tab
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-[Timeline](#timeline) tab
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The **Entity details** panel on the left side of the page provides information about the user, such as the Microsoft Entra identity risk level, the insider risk severity level (Preview), the number of devices the user is signed in to, when the user was first and last seen, the user's accounts, groups that the user belongs to, contact information, and more. You see other details depending on the integration features you enabled.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Investigation Priority Score** has been deprecated on December 3, 2025. As a result, both the Investigation Priority Score breakdown and the Scored activities cards have been removed from the UI.
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> [!NOTE]
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> (Preview) Microsoft Defender XDR users with access to [Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management](/purview/insider-risk-management-solution-overview) can now see a user's insider risk severity and gain insights on a user's suspicious activities in the user page. Select the **insider risk severity** under Entity details to see the risk insights about the user.
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### Visual view of incidents and alerts
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This card includes all incidents and alerts associated with the user entity, grouped by severity.
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### Investigation priority
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This card includes the user entity's calculated investigation priority score breakdown, and a two-week trend for that score, including the percentile of the score in relation to the tenant.
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### Active directory account controls
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This card surfaces Microsoft Defender for Identity security settings that may need your attention. You can see important flags about the user's account settings, such as if the user can press enter to bypass the password, and if the user has a password that never expires, etc.
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For more information, see [User Account Control flags](/windows/win32/adschema/a-useraccountcontrol).
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### Scored activities
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This card includes all activities and alerts contributing to the entity's investigation priority score over the last seven days.
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### Organization tree
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This section shows the user entity's place in the organizational hierarchy as reported by Microsoft Defender for Identity.
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|**New**| Indicates that the entity was created less than 30 days ago. |
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|**Deleted**| Indicates that the entity was permanently deleted from Active Directory. |
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|**Disabled**|Indicates that the entity is currently disabled in Active Directory. The *disabled* attribute is an Active Directory flag that's available for user accounts, computer accounts, and other objects to indicate that the object is not currently in use. <br><br>When an object is disabled, it can't be used to sign in or perform actions in the domain.|
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|**Disabled**| Indicates that the entity is currently disabled in Active Directory. The *disabled* attribute is an Active Directory flag that's available for user accounts, computer accounts, and other objects to indicate that the object is not currently in use. <br><br>When an object is disabled, it can't be used to sign in or perform actions in the domain.|
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|**Enabled**| Indicates that the entity is currently enabled in Active Directory, indicating that the entity is currently in use, and can be used to sign in or perform actions in the domain. |
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|**Expired**| Indicates that the entity is expired in Active Directory. When a user account is expired, the user is no longer able to log in to the domain or access any network resources. The expired account is essentially treated as if it were disabled, but with an explicit expiration date set. <br><br>Any services or applications that the user was authorized to access may also be affected, depending on how they are configured. |
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|**Honeytoken**| Indicates that the entity is manually tagged as a honeytoken. |
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> The organization tree section and the account tags are available when a Microsoft Defender for Identity license is available.
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:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/investigate-users/user-incident-overview.png" alt-text="Screenshot of a specific user's page in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/investigate-users/user-incident-overview.png":::
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## Incidents and alerts
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- Enable, disable, or suspend the user in Microsoft Entra ID
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- Direct user to do certain actions such as require the user to sign in again or force password reset
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- Reset investigation priority score for the user
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- View Microsoft Entra account settings, related governance, the user's owned files, or the user's shared files
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:::image type="content" source="/defender/media/investigate-users/user-incident-actions.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the actions for remediation for a user in the Microsoft Defender portal" lightbox="/defender/media/investigate-users/user-incident-actions.png":::
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For more information, see [Remediation actions in Microsoft Defender for Identity](/defender-for-identity/remediation-actions).
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