Unable to Setup Activity Alerts in O365 Admin

Question

Hey yall,
im trying to setup an activity alert for when a Teams Channel/Team is deleted and im getting the following error/issue.

Diagnostic information: {Version:17.00.8220.013,Environment:NCUPROD,DeploymentId:cf6faf45165d4ef89bd31da3ad266431,InstanceId:WebRole_IN_7,SID:3d663b29-105f-416a-ac78-49a964b2a1e0,CID:c069aec6-651f-4323-8159-e6c5d58d903b}
Time: 2022-04-08T12:20:07.3151612Z

Error

The ActivityAlert type entity does not have the following type command: Create. Parameter name: entityMetadata

I also tried creating it in powershell and the New-ActivityAlert cmdlet doesnt seem to be in powershell under the import-module mentioned on microsofts kb's

Answer 1

Activity alerts cannot be managed via the UI, Microsoft removed that few years back. You should still be able to manage them via PowerShell, connect via the method outlined here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/connect-to-scc-powershell?view=exchange-ps
Though I run few tests and New-ActivityAlert cmdlet seems to always fail with some stupid error message, so it's possible they removed support for it altogether. Use protection alerts instead :)