Stop Configuration Drift in Microsoft 365 Using the new Configuration Management API’s – A Deep Dive
Overview
Microsoft has released into public preview a new set of APIs that enable administrators to monitor and alert on configuration changes across one or more tenants, spanning multiple Microsoft 365 workloads, including:
- Microsoft Entra
- Exchange Online
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft Teams
This product is currently in Public Preview. Features and functionality may change or experience issues, so please refer to Microsoft’s documentation for the most up-to-date information.
Current Limitations
At the time of this blog post, the limitations can be found below. You can check the latest limitations here.
Tenant Monitoring
- 30 configurationMonitor objects per tenant
- Each configurationMonitor runs at a fixed interval of 6 hours.
- Can monitor up to 800 configuration resources per day per tenant, across all monitors.
- Administrators have full control over how this quota is consumed, whether through a single monitor or multiple monitors. For example, if a monitor’s baseline includes 20