An absent feature from Exchange Online (Office 365) is email address policies, which are put to good use in on-premises Exchange deployments to automatically assign the desired email address format to mailbox users. The lack of email address policies to date has presumably been due to challenges of implementing them safely in a multi-tenant environment such as Exchange Online.
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Configure update settings for Office 365 ProPlus. 9/29/2017. 3 minutes to read.In this articleSummary: Explains how admins can use the Office Deployment Tool or Group Policy to configure update settings for Office 365 ProPlus.There are two ways that you can configure update settings for Office 365 ProPlus in your organization:.Office Deployment Tool.Group PolicyHere are the update settings that you can configure by using the Office Deployment Tool or Group Policy.
ImportantYou must be running at least version 15.0.4605.1003 of Office 365 ProPlus, which was released in April 2014, to use the following policy settings: Hide update notifications, Target version, Update deadline, and Update path. To determine which version of Office 365 ProPlus is installed on a user's computer, go to File Account in any Office program. The version is listed under the Office Updates section.After you copy the Administrative Template files to AD DS, you'll find the update policy settings under Computer ConfigurationPoliciesAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft Office 2016 (Machine)Updates in the Group Policy Management Console. You'll also find a description of how to configure each policy setting.If you decide to make a change later, update the Group Policy setting by using the Group Policy Management Console. The updated policy settings are automatically applied to Office 365 ProPlus, through the normal Group Policy update process.Group Policy settings can be used regardless of whether users install Office 365 ProPlus themselves from the Office 365 portal, or if you deploy Office 365 ProPlus to your users by using the Office Deployment Tool. Related topics.
Announcing new capabilities available in Office 365 Message EncryptionAs part of our integrated information protection investments we are releasing rich new capabilities in Office 365 Message Encryption that protect and control your sensitive emails. @Deleted Thanks! Office 365 Message Encryption should not impact the anti-spam and anti-malware services in Exchange Online. Encrypted mails without attachments sent through Exchange Online can process the mail and attachment to provide value added services such as journaling, anti-malware scanning, indexing, content detection (DLP) process these mail & attachment.Thanks for flagging - we updated this to the right link.it seems some of our old guidance wasn't updated. Actually, existing IRM/OME customers can also onboard to the new msipc based stack by simply running the cmdlets provided.
Check out the documentation for the cmdlets. This updated guidance should be updated in the link above shortly if not already. Few questions if possible. How does this compare to OME as in, once the custom template function will allow the option for Encrypt Only, will this be considered a full replacement for the current 365OME – and use the same measures SHA256 etc (the user experience will be better! Thanks for your questions - let me answer a few here:1.
You are correct. Once we enable 'encrypt only' it will be considered at feature parity (plus more) to the previous version of Office 365 Message Encryption. You can find details of the encryption standards used. You should see the 'encrypt only' in the public roadmap very soon.2. We plan on simplifying the Outlook experience to align with the actions that end users need to take to protect the email. The goal is to make this experience seamless and easy - like the way it is in Outlook web experience. We are actively working on this and will share a date when ready.3.
That's great feedback. Will share back with the team. If you have any other feedback do not hesitate to add them here:4. Not at this time but it's something that's top of mind for us.
Hey great article and information.With regards to the old version of OME will that be deprecated in tenants if you are already using OME as we have built a solution using message classifications to trigger transport rules and we only want to encrypt. The DNF option currently doesn’t fit our organisations workflow.But the introduction of this into AIP is brilliant.one thing that I noticed was that we use one label to classify sensitive information. I tried to recreate this using AIP in a test tenant and the template would not show up in exchange for use in transport rules for use with DLP etc.would adding the requirement for encrypt only template be an idea to put in the user voice platform or is it already in scope for development. The legacy OME will still be supported until we provide the 'encrypt only' capability. With that said please do add to user voice - it always helps. WRT your other question this is more of an AIP/DLP question and this is a bit out of my scope - we are planning to do an Ask Me Anything with experts who can answer this - recommend attending to ask this and any other question you may have.Currently, custom templates is not offered with the new Office 365 Message Encryption capabilities. It is on the roadmap.
Thanks, great article.As a very small business, we currently only use Business Essentials and Business Premium, but we deal with some very sensitive client information which we should be sharing using encryption. Unfortunately, from everything I've read and the sales people I've spoken to at MS, data protection offerings such as the ones you've outlined here are geared towards big business / enterprises. What would you recommend for small businesses, who work under exactly the same data protection laws as major enterprise organisations, with regards encrypting emails and so on?
The key for us is to keep it all as hosted, online solutions as part of O365 as we do not have our own IT department or infrastructure.Really hoping you can help as despite lots of research I've not yet been able to come up with a workable, affordable solution.Many thanks in advance, Oz. Great news on additional features! Now, as a MS Partner, maybe we can almost compete w/other solutions like ZixMail. However, I have a question - encryption is part of the Azure Information Protection, correct? If so, will anyone who has this add-on be able to use these new features or only E1 or E3?For example, I have many customers with Exchange Online + Azure Information Protection P1 who are used to adding 'secure' to the e-mail subject but it would be so much easier to simply click a button!Thanks!
Although not the most seamless approach, will there ever be an option to have the receiver enter a password or pin to view an email (perhaps within Outlook only). I have tested these, and I did not find this very secure from the standpoint of a compromised Gmail or Yahoo account. It still seems that passing a key/pin/password/etc.
To the user through an alternate means is still way more secure, simple, and trusted than what is described here. I am mainly concerned with sending emails to external accounts, not so much within an enterprise, which the solution in this article addresses very well. Thanks Oz, Mark. Agree encryption is business critical for businesses of all sizes. We do offer Office 365 Message Encryption outside of our enterprise SKUs. Check out this table. For example you can see that we even offer OME for frontline workers (kiosk) but you'll need to add-on AIP P1 and if you want the Outlook desktop experience - you also need Office Pro Plus.Yes!
This is offered as part of Office 365 A1 and above. Note that in A1 it doesn't include Office Pro Plus so you only get the Outlook web experience.that's great to hear! Is the full table of where OME is offered - outside of EDU. @Deleted we do enable recipients to sign in via One-time passcode and that passcode would expire after 15min but the passcode would be send to their Gmail/Yahoo account. While not seamless experience you.might. be able to enforce the recipient to access the protected message through Outlook.com/Microsoft Account only to confirm.Whether you rely Microsoft managed encryption keys or provide your own through BYOK with AIP, you continue to get the value added features in Office 365 such as eDiscovery, search, or even anti-malware/spam services.
I recommend watching on why this is the possible and some common misperceptions in SaaS encryption. Do reach out if you're still unclear or have feedback on further content to clarify. Good Morning,Here is one for you both.Whilst we are waiting for OME v2 to have the Encrypt Only Functionality we are using legacy OME with exchange classification to trigger the OME Encryption.But there is a use case issue in this scenario.A recipient will reply to an OME encrypted Email - This comes back encrypted to our exchange we then remove OME encryption before delivery to mailbox.The issue is that then the message has then lost its classification and any replies to the user are then not sent encrypted any advice in this scenario?
As the senders within our organization will not remember to send the email encrypted.Dominic. It would be really nice to see the new OME capabilities replace the old message encryption in Office365 for ALL plans, specifically Business Premium. Lots of small companies have compliance needs addressed by this (like HIPAA) and they are going to find it hard to warrant the additional expense for what is essentially a 'nice to have' functionality that makes the external customers experiences better. Even if ProPlus isn't included instead of the Business Premium Office suite, it would still be really nice for small shops to be able to use the OME features like the Google/Yahoo/etc federated login and branding of the email. Really, just provide those 2 features into every Office365 SKU. With the old encryption method and new OME it gets confusing to users and non-technical people to explain what you are using.
Saying we use Office365 message encryption doesn't really cut it. HiWhen I send an email with Encrypt Only from my Outlook 2016 to an external recipient, they get a link to the portal and can reply to my email. That's all fine and dandy but the reply I get in my Outlook 2016 is a link to the portal and not a decrypted message that can be followed in a communications thread and whatever reply I send through the portal is also not reflected in my sent mail in Outlook 2016, but comes as a cc: reply into my inbox with a new link to the portal.
This can't be correct, I must have done something wrong when enabling AIP on our tenant, if not then it is useless when sending mail outside an O365 tenant organization.Regars,Henri. This is fine and dandy but there is a lot of feedback with people like me unable to configure simple email encryption based on Auzre Information Protection it just doesn't work, there is a bug or something. I realize this is not Tech Support but I have a case opened for over a week now and no help, basically when we try to create a new Exchange mail flow rule based onApply Office 365 Message Encryption and rights protection to the message with.
And then you are asked to select RMS template it says No RMS templates are available in your organizationyes we have a Rights Management license and yes we enabled it over 2 weeks agoagain there are many people like my company trying to figure this our, just Google it.