"Configuring Email Forwarding and Notification Limits in Microsoft 365 E5"

"Enforcing Daily Notification Limit for Email Forwarding in Microsoft 365 E5"

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You are a global admin in a company with a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

You notice that some users have set up email forwarding out of your organization.

In response to this you have enabled the “Creation of forwarding/redirect rule” policy and configured yourself as the recipient of the alerts.

However, you find that the number of informational emails received due to the policy feels a bit like spamming and wish to enforce a daily notification limit to 10 emails.

What should you configure?

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A. B. C. D.

Correct Answer: A

You should edit the built-in policy and change the daily notification limit to 10:

Creation of forwarding/redirect rule A Some sections of this alert cannot be edited because it's a default policy. Status @®@~«. Description This alert is triggered when someone in your organization sets up auto-forwarding, email forwarding, redirect rule or a mail flow rule -V1.0.0.5
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Option B is incorrect.

This will only suppress an existing alert.

Option C is incorrect.

This will only dismiss an existing alert.

Option D is incorrect.

There is no need to create a new policy, you should edit the existing built-in policy.

To know more about setting up alert policies, please refer to the link below:

The correct answer is D. In Microsoft 365 Compliance center - Policies - Alerts Policies, create a new policy.

Explanation:

Email forwarding outside of the organization can pose a security risk, as sensitive information can be unintentionally leaked. To prevent this, the admin has enabled the “Creation of forwarding/redirect rule” policy, which sends alerts to the admin whenever a user sets up an email forwarding rule outside of the organization.

However, as the number of informational emails received is high, the admin wishes to enforce a daily notification limit to 10 emails. To achieve this, the admin needs to create a new policy that specifies the notification limit.

The steps to create a new policy are as follows:

  1. Go to the Microsoft 365 Compliance center and select Policies from the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on Alerts Policies and then click on the New alert policy button.
  3. In the New alert policy window, give the policy a name and description.
  4. Under the Policy settings section, click on the + Add button and select the Creation of forwarding/redirect rule policy.
  5. Scroll down to the Notification section and configure the notification limit by setting the Send a notification every X alerts field to 10.
  6. Save the policy by clicking on the Create button.

Once the policy is saved, the admin will receive a notification alert for every 10 email forwarding rules created outside of the organization.

Option A is incorrect as editing the built-in policy is not recommended as it can affect other policies that rely on the same settings.

Option B and C are also incorrect as they relate to suppressing or dismissing alerts, which is not the solution to the problem described in the question.

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