Getting Started
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Videos for getting started with EOP – New video series
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Videos for getting started with protecting your email – This is similar to the Videos for getting started with EOP video page, minus the setup and PowerShell videos and focusing on the “protection” videos.
Connectors and Mail Flow
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Configure custom mail flow by using connectors – Substantially revised the conceptual overview for Exchange connectors. Several new sub-topics are included also, such as:
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Decide which connector to use – New guidance for when to create which connector.
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Create required connectors to set up basic email flow through EOP – Setting up basic mail flow.
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Manage Accepted Domains in Exchange Online – We made updates to the definitions for the domain type of Authoritative and Internal relay. Updating this topic resulted in changes to these topics too:
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Manage Accepted Domains in EOP – This topic was changed to sync up with the EXO topic.
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Use Directory Based Edge Blocking to Reject Messages Sent to Invalid Recipients – We linked to this from the accepted domains topic, so revised this topic so that it’s for EXO as well as EOP, and moved it under their respective mail flow topics.
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Mail Flow in Exchange Online – Added links to the subtopics, including the DBEB and Accepted Domains topics.
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Mail Flow in EOP – Added link for DBEB which is now a subtopic here.
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Exchange Online Protection – This is the top-level EOP topic. Removed DBEB as top-level topic and mentioned it as part of mail flow instead.
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Transport Rules
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Use transport rules to aggressively filter bulk email messages – Updated to make our SCL value recommendations more general, as requested by a discussion on this alias.
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Using transport rules to inspect message attachments – Updated to explain numerous transport rule options that can be used when scanning message attachments along with the supported file types such as .zip, .rar, and executable files such as .jar and .exe.
Reporting
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NEW FEATURE: Use mail protection reports in Office 365 to view data about malware, spam, and rule detections – New topic, created for the enhanced mail protection reports in the Office 365 admin center. Also updated the main EXO and EOP reporting topics, updated the “What’s New” topics for EXO and EOP, updated the FOPE vs. EOP Feature Comparison topic, and also the EOP, EXO, and O365 service descriptions.
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Track messages with delivery reports – Separated the EXO and Exchange Server 2013 topics, and added the note at the top of the EXO topic that this feature will be deprecated shortly.
End User
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Find and release quarantined messages as an end user – Added screen shots, primarily, to help end users use this feature.
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Exchange Online Protection – On the top-level EOP topic, created separate admin and end user sections, thus creating a de-facto “EOP End User Guide”.
Archiving
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Archive Lync conversations and meeting content to Exchange – New topic, shows how to enable Lync archiving to Exchange in Exchange Online and Exchange Server, how retention age is calculated.
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Using OAuth authentication to support Archiving in an Exchange hybrid deployment – New topic about using OAuth in hybrid mode.
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Journaling – Updated interoperability with Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2007
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Place a mailbox on Litigation Hold – New topic, now updated to include info about how to place all mailboxes on Litigation Hold.
eDiscovery
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Create a custom management scope for In-Place eDiscovery searches – Use a custom management scope based on distribution group membership to let specific people or groups use In-Place eDiscovery to search a subset of mailboxes.
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Reduce the size of a discovery mailbox in Exchange – For discovery mailboxes that’ve exceeded the 50 GB limit, you create new discovery mailboxes and copying the search results from the large discovery mailbox to the new ones.
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Delete and re-create the default discovery mailbox in Exchange – If you have a default discovery mailbox that’s larger than the 50 GB limit and you don’t to save the search results, you can delete and re-recreate it.
Until later,
Henrik Walther