Maester MP.AIGOV.1026 Enabled spending policy should alert at least two active recipients
[!NOTE] Validated 2026-11-09 against a real Microsoft 365 test tenant, via an actual
Invoke-Maesterrun. The run correctly Failed (true positive): all 8 enabled spending policies in this tenant have no email alert configured. ConfirmsemailThresholdSettingsreads and types as expected (isEnabled,threshold). No enabled policy in this tenant has an alert turned on, so the recipient-disabled and single-recipient paths weren't exercised against real data this run.
Checks that every enabled Copilot spending policy sends a budget alert to at least two active people. Without a working alert, nobody hears about a policy nearing its limit until users are blocked.
| Severity | Condition |
|---|---|
| Medium | The policy has no email alert. |
| Medium | An alert recipient is disabled or no longer exists. |
| Low | The alert has only one recipient. |
Remediation action
Edit the policy in Copilot > Cost management > Configuration, turn on an email alert (80% is a good starting threshold) and add at least two active owners as recipients. Replace recipients who have left.
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