Get-ComplianceSecurityFilter

This cmdlet is functional only in Security & Compliance PowerShell. For more information, see Security & Compliance PowerShell.

Use the Get-ComplianceSecurityFilter cmdlet to view compliance security filters in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. These filters allow specified users to search only a subset of mailboxes and SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites in your Microsoft 365 organization.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax.

Syntax

Get-ComplianceSecurityFilter
   [-Action <ComplianceSecurityFilterActionType>]
   [-Confirm]
   [-FilterName <String>]
   [-User <String>]
   [-WhatIf]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Compliance security filters work with compliance searches in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal (*-ComplianceSearch cmdlets), not In-Place eDiscovery searches in Exchange Online (*-MailboxSearch cmdlets).

To use this cmdlet in Security & Compliance PowerShell, you need to be assigned permissions. For more information, see Permissions in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Examples

Example 1

Get-ComplianceSecurityFilter | Format-Table -Auto FilterName,Action

This example returns a summary list of all compliance security filters.

Example 2

Get-ComplianceSecurityFilter -FilterName "HR Filter"

This example returns detailed information about the compliance security filter named HR Filter.

Parameters

-Action

The Action parameter filters the results by the type of search action that a filter is applied to. Valid values are:

  • Export: The filter is applied when exporting search results, or preparing them for analysis in eDiscovery Premium.
  • Preview: The filter is applied when previewing search results.
  • Purge: The filter is applied when purging search results. How the items are deleted is controlled by the PurgeType parameter value on the New-ComplianceSearchAction cmdlet. The default value is SoftDelete, which means the purged items are recoverable by users until the deleted items retention period expires.
  • Search: The filter is applied when running a search.
  • All: The filter is applied to all search actions.
Type:ComplianceSecurityFilterActionType
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Security & Compliance

-Confirm

The Confirm switch specifies whether to show or hide the confirmation prompt. How this switch affects the cmdlet depends on if the cmdlet requires confirmation before proceeding.

  • Destructive cmdlets (for example, Remove-* cmdlets) have a built-in pause that forces you to acknowledge the command before proceeding. For these cmdlets, you can skip the confirmation prompt by using this exact syntax: -Confirm:$false.
  • Most other cmdlets (for example, New-* and Set-* cmdlets) don't have a built-in pause. For these cmdlets, specifying the Confirm switch without a value introduces a pause that forces you acknowledge the command before proceeding.
Type:SwitchParameter
Aliases:cf
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Security & Compliance

-FilterName

The FilterName parameter specifies the name of the compliance security filter that you want to view. If the value contains spaces, enclose the value in quotation marks (").

Type:String
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Security & Compliance

-User

The User parameter filters the results by the user who gets a filter applied to their searches. Valid values are:

  • The alias or email address of a user.
  • The value All.
  • The name of a role group.
Type:String
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Security & Compliance

-WhatIf

The WhatIf switch doesn't work in Security & Compliance PowerShell.

Type:SwitchParameter
Aliases:wi
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Security & Compliance