New Release of the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA) Module (version 2.5)

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Microsoft has recently released a new and updated version (2.5) of the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA).

What is Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA)

Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer ORCA is a report that you can run in your environment which can highlight known configuration issues and improvements that can impact your experience with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection).

The ORCA is a great little PowerShell script, to give you a good overview of your Defender for Office settings and recommendations.

How to install or update the module

Start a PowerShell command prompt in elevated mode (Run As Administrator), so you have the permission needed to install modules, then run the following command to install, this will install it directly from PowerShell Gallery (ORCA 2.5):

Install-Module ORCA

Confirm that the module has been installed, using the following command:

Get-InstalledModule ORCA

Run the module

Run a report against a Microsoft 365 tenant using the following command:

Get-ORCAReport

This outputs an HTML report of your Defender for Office settings, which makes it very easy to get the full overview of all the Defender for Office settings and recommendations from Microsoft.

What to know more?

You read more about the ORCA module from the official GitHub using this direct link: