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  • Blog Post: Recipient Notifications

    The ability to send a notification to the recipient when a transport rule triggers. This is a request that we have received from a lot of customers, and I’m happy to let you know that it is now rolling out in the form of an action in EOP transport rules. Sweet! Recipient Notifications Let’s...
  • Blog Post: An Early Gift, EOP Bulk Mail Detection - The Easy Way

    This past summer we added new bulk detection capabilities to Exchange Online Protection. At the time, if you wanted to take advantage of these new capabilities you had to add an EOP transport rule to detect the BCL (bulk complain level) that EOP stamped on incoming messages. This new capability worked...
  • Blog Post: Easily tell which transport rules a message triggered

    Hello fellow traveller, come sit with me by the fire, there is plenty of room. You look to be weak from your travels, I have plenty of rations that I will gladly share with you. I have many stories from my own travels that I would love to share. Wait…, you want to know about tracking which rules...
  • Blog Post: Transport Rule Limit Increase

    In the past the maximum number of transport rules that you could create in Exchange Online ( Enterprise , Education , and Government plans) was 100. This limit has recently been increased to 300 (for Enterprise , Education , and Government plans)! For those that were concerned about reaching the 100...
  • Blog Post: Best Practices for Finding Executable Content

    This article may be common knowledge for some, but it is important to revisit and refresh outselves on. You may be aware of what content EOP will flag as being executable, or you may not. In either case, I think this is an important topic so sit back, relax, and read on. Transport Rules One of...
  • Blog Post: Behavior Change When Setting the SCL with a Transport Rule

    With my coffee currently in one hand, it would be very useful if I could type with only my other hand. Alas I cannot, so I’ll be typing this article with both hands while my coffee waits for me. With none of this at all being relevant to this blog, let’s dig in to this week’s EOP article...
  • Blog Post: Special Case, Set SCL to 0

    Update (August 28, 2014) - Setting the SCL with a transport rule to anything from 0 to 4 will cause the behavior that is described in this article. This is a scenario I’ve wanted to write about for some time now as it isn’t very intuitive. When a transport rule has an action to set...
  • Blog Post: Importing Safe and Block Lists with PowerShell

    I just dropped my van off for some maintenance at the dealership and am currently waiting for a shuttle to take me to the office. As I sit here I’m thinking about EOP and PowerShell and have come up with a great idea for this week’s article. I don’t always think about EOP outside of...