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To use advanced hunting or other [Microsoft Defender XDR](microsoft-365-defender.md) capabilities, you need an appropriate role in Microsoft Entra ID. [Read about required roles and permissions for advanced hunting](custom-roles.md).


## Permissions required for Advanced Hunting

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run Advanced Hunting queries. You have the following options:

### **Microsoft Defender XDR Unified role-based access control (URBAC)**

**Read-only Advanced Hunting access (Email & Collaboration tables):**
Membership assigned with the following Defender URBAC permission:

* **Security operations → Security data → Security data basic (read)**

This permission provides access to:

* **EmailEvents**
* **EmailUrlInfo**
* **EmailAttachmentInfo**
* **UrlClickEvents**
* **Email entity metadata**

### **Email & Collaboration (EOP / Defender for Office 365) permissions**

Membership in one of the following Email & Collaboration role groups provides access to email data tables in Advanced Hunting:

* **Security Administrator**
* **Security Operator**
* **Security Reader**

### **Exchange Online RBAC permissions**

To access EXO-related data surfaced in Advanced Hunting, users must be members of one of the following Exchange Online role groups:

* **View-Only Organization Management**
* **View-Only Configuration**
* **Security Reader**
* **Global Reader**

### **Microsoft Entra permissions**

Membership in one of the following Microsoft Entra roles grants full read access to all Advanced Hunting data:

* **Global Administrator**
* **Security Administrator**
* **Security Reader**
* **Global Reader**

Also, your access to endpoint data is determined by role-based access control (RBAC) settings in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. [Read about managing access to Microsoft Defender XDR](m365d-permissions.md).


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