Category: Microsoft 365

As part of ongoing improvements to bulk email filtering in Microsoft Defender for Office | Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft is refining our detection capabilities by recalibrating and redistributing bulk senders across different bulk complaint levels (BCL). This would automatically make the current bulk thresholds slightly more aggressive. As a consequence, Microsoft is updating bulk threshold for standard …

Bulk emails play a crucial role in modern enterprise communications. Determining the right balance of these messages—what should be allowed and what should be blocked—poses a significant challenge. Many organizations default to standard settings, often leading to issues like false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN) in email. With Bulk Senders Insight in Microsoft Exchange Online Protection …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is retiring four legacy override alerts that are now mostly redundant due to Secure by default. With Secure by default, ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) blocks high confidence phishing emails by default despite the legacy overrides. The four alerts are: As part of the deprecation and rollout, When is the change? Microsoft plan to …

Microsoft is introducing password protected downloads of email messages from the Email Entity Summary Panel in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Today, password protected downloads are available from the Quarantine experience.  When this will happen: General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-March 2024 and expect to complete by late March 2024. How this will …

In Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft is rolling out new details on who or what is responsible for releasing a message from quarantine. These details will now be included in the email summary flyout panel accessible from the Quarantine page. When this will happen: General Availability : Microsoft will begin rolling out late March …