Running a manual scan performs an on-demand scan of targets based on the selected policy configuration.
For details about manual scans at Manual Scan.
Manual scan is not applicable for Microsoft Teams (Chat).
For details, see Adding Advanced Threat Protection Policies and Adding Data Loss Prevention Policies.
The manual scan setting screen appears, showing the policy summary, scan type, scan scope, recipients of the scan report.
The Scan only type applies to Office 365 services and Gmail only.
For Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, Scan Type does not appear. Cloud App Security always scans the service data and takes actions configured in the policy on any violation.
You can specify the time range down to minute.
This option applies to Office 365 services and Gmail only.
A manual scan starts.
The scan summary screen appears, showing the total number of email messages, sites, or files scanned and skipped.
To cancel the manual scan, click Stop Scan.
The message "Completed" appears in the Scan Details column, and the Scan History link appears in the Rules column.
A scan report is generated and sent to the specified recipients.
To check the scan summary, hover over Scan History. The detailed information includes:
Scan start time
Last scan time
Scan type
Scan status
Number of mailboxes, users, or sites scanned and skipped
Number of email messages or files scanned
Number of files blocked, malware detected, and suspicious URLs (for Advanced Threat Protection policies)
Number of data loss events detected (for Data Loss Prevention policies)
To check the scan logs, Click See details. The Logs page appears, showing the log information about the manual scan.