#Policies

To monitor user activities and changes within your Microsoft 365 tenants, you need to create policies based on your organization’s governance. By adding rules to a policy and assigning the policy to a scope, the corresponding actions and changes within the scope will be monitored.

#Policy Levels and Object Types

Policies can be managed on a service level to only monitor the objects in a specific object type within a limited scope, or they can be managed on a tenant level to monitor objects in the entire tenant.

On each policy, a corresponding object type icon is displayed, representing the object type for which the policy is created.

Policy Level	Object Type	Icon
Service level	SharePoint site
Service level	OneDrive
Service level	Microsoft 365 Group
Service level	Microsoft Team
Service level	Microsoft 365 user
Service level	Exchange mailbox
Service level	Security and distribution group
Tenant level	Tenant

#Policy Statuses and Definitions

On each policy, a corresponding status is displayed, representing the status the policy is currently in.

Status	Description
Draft	Policy is currently in draft status and can be published and executed once finalized.
Published	Policy is scheduled and ready, waiting for the execution based on the configured schedule.
Running	Policy is running currently to scan the assigned scope.