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search.appverid: MET150
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description: Threat remediation
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ms.service: defender-office-365
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ms.date: 01/13/2025
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ms.date: 03/20/2025
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- ✅ <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/defender-office-365/mdo-about#defender-for-office-365-plan-1-vs-plan-2-cheat-sheet" target="_blank">Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2</a>
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- **Organization limits**: The maximum number of active, concurrent email remediations is 50. Once the limit is reached, no new remediations are triggered until some actions are completed.
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- **Email message limits**: If an active remediation involves more than one million email messages, no new email remediations are allowed.
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- **Recipient requirements in remediations**:
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- The total percentage of selected recipients must be at least 40% of the total email message count in the remediation. If the remediation requires the deletion of 5,000 email messages, the remediation must target at least 2,000 recipients. Note that Explorer (Threat Explorer) counts each recipient of a message as a unique email (a message sent to 5 addresses counts as 5 messages).
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- The total percentage of selected recipients must be at least 40% of the total email message count in the remediation. If the remediation requires the deletion of 5,000 email messages, the remediation must target at least 2,000 recipients. Explorer (Threat Explorer) counts each recipient as a unique email message. For example, Threat Exporer counts a message sent to 5 addresses as 5 messages.
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- If the recipient count is less than 40% of the total email message count, the remediation can't be used to delete more than 1,000 messages that were sent to a single recipient.
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- You need to be assigned permissions before you can do the procedures in this article. Admins can take the required action on email messages, but the **Search and Purge** role is required to get those actions approved. To assign the **Search and Purge** role, you have the following options:

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