Set Exchange Online quarantine notification period

Many people have suspect emails sent to quarantine in Microsoft 365. This is achieved using a quarantine policy which you find at:

https://security.microsoft.com

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You expand the options under Email & collaboration as shown above and select Policies and rules. On the right you select Threat policies as shown above.

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If you scroll down the page a bit you’ll find Quarantine policies as shown above, which you should select.

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The notification period is controlled in the GUI via the Global settings menu option as shown above.

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From the dialog that appears from the right, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find an option Send end-user spam notifications as shown above. Presently, the minimum you can configure this to is Within 4 hours.

After you make any changes here select the Save button at the very bottom to update these settings for all the quarantine policies you have.

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