Cannot turn off Strict Preset Security policy

Question

We had previously enabled the Strict Presen Security Policy, but it was interfering too much with core work so we have had to scale it back, however I cannot turn off or delete the strict preset security policies, I have turned it off at the top level and made it apply to nothing, however the policy still shows int eh Anti Phishing section.

I try removing and turning it off, but neither work

Answer 1

@Anonymous

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A. From the above description, I could understand that you did enable strict protection and later disabled it, but it still shows enabled under Anti-phishing policies, but you want it to be disabled from everywhere.

Please do correct me if this is not the case.

I did try to reproduce the issue in my tenant by first enabling the policy :

• When I tried to turn it Off It did turned off from Anti-phishing section as well:

• I would recommend to Use PowerShell to turn on or turn off preset security policies
• In organizations without Defender for Office 365, run the following command to determine whether the rule for the Standard preset policy is currently enabled or disabled:

Get-EOPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy" | Format-Table Name,State

• Run the following command to turn off the Standard preset security policy if it's turned on:

Disable-EOPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy"

• In organizations with Defender for Office 365, run the following command to determine whether the rules for the Standard preset policy are currently enabled or disabled:

**Write-Output -InputObject ("rn"*3),"EOP rule - Strict preset security policy",("-"63);Get-EOPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy" | Format-Table Name,State; Write-Output -InputObject rn,"Defender for Office 365 rule - Strict preset security policy",("-"63);Get-ATPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy" | Format-Table Name,State

• Run the following command to turn off the Standard preset security policy if it's turned on:**
  Disable-EOPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy"; Disable-ATPProtectionPolicyRule -Identity "Strict Preset Security Policy"**

Please do let me know if you still face the issue.

Thanks,

Akshay Kaushik

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