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Update how-policies-and-protections-are-combined.md
Added Important alert around priority order per FastTrack request.
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<sup>\*</sup> Defender for Office 365 only.
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The priority order matters if you have the same recipient intentionally or unintentionally included in multiple policies, because *only* the first policy of that type (anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing, etc.) is applied to that recipient, regardless of how many other policies that the recipient is included in. There's never a merging or combining of the settings in multiple policies for the recipient. The recipient is unaffected by the settings of the remaining policies of that type.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> The priority order matters if you have the same recipient intentionally or unintentionally included in multiple policies, because *only* the first policy of that type (anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing, etc.) is applied to that recipient, regardless of how many other policies that the recipient is included in. There's never a merging or combining of the settings in multiple policies for the recipient. The recipient is unaffected by the settings of the remaining policies of that type.
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For example, the group named "Contoso Executives" is included in the following policies:
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