Don’t forget about the security and compliance center
For those of you that are Exchange Online Protection veterans, it may be second nature to always head to the Exchange Online portal whenever you need to make any changes to that service. You may not...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Transport Rules that are set to “Do not audit”
When creating a transport rule, please…. PLEASE, do not disable auditing. Your rule auditing setting should not look like this. Unless of course, you have a security mandate about not auditing...
View ArticleExpert Office 365 – Notes from the Field… The BookExpert Office 365 – Notes...
Microsoft Canada recently published a book on Office 365 titled Expert Office 365 – Notes from the Field. Each chapter in the book is about a technology in Office 365, and is written by an expert that...
View ArticleCombating Display Name Spoofing
My lack of updates around these parts can be attributed to the craziness of work over the last few months. This afternoon I have some time and am typing this out as quickly as I can before someone...
View ArticleCleaning up a full recoverable items folder
I recently worked with an organization where one of their users had a full Recoverable Items folder. This user had a hold on their mailbox, but also had the Exchange Online Unlimited Archive, so why...
View ArticleFigure out which spam filter marked a message as spam
It has been quiet around these parts as of late. Much too quiet. To put that to an end, I have a handy tip today that could help in your spam troubleshooting adventures. For various reasons,...
View ArticleDid I get zapped by ZAP?
ZAP, also known as Zero-hour Auto Purge, is a protection feature in Exchange Online that can move spam, phish, or malware messages from users’ inbox to their junk folder. This feature works in the...
View ArticleUse headers to determine which Exchange Online tenant a message was...
Consider the following mail flow. On-premises environment --> Your Exchange Online tenant --> External Recipient With the above mail flow, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to...
View ArticleDetermine which Exchange Online connector an inbound message was attributed to
This is a quick tip for something that I'm asked quite often. The scenario is that you have created an inbound connector in Exchange Online and want to verify that mail which should be coming in...
View ArticleAll good things eventually come to an end
If you follow @MSDNService on Twitter you may have seen that MSDN & TechNet blogs will be archived into read-only blogs soon. That day for my blog, EOP Field Notes, is fast approaching and I...
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