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Security Fridays Quick Tip - Enable 'External' email tagging in Outlook


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If you haven’t already done so, you can enable ‘External’ tagging in Outlook for your Microsoft Office 365 tenant. This allows any external emails to be tagged which can be helpful if someone tries to impersonate emails or for attempted Phishing emails. 

Resource: Set-ExternalInOutlook (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

Quite simple to enable:

  • Connect to Exchange Online using Powershell
  • Check status
    • Get-ExternalInOutlook
  • If set to false, to enable
    • Set-ExternalInOutlook -Enabled $true
  • To exclude a domain from being tagged:
    • Set-ExternalInOutlook -AllowList “example.com”
  • To exclude an email from being tagged
    • Set-ExternalInOutlook -AllowList “admin@example.com”

 

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MarcoLuvisi
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  • July 28, 2023

Many thanks @dips for this very useful tips !


Chris.Childerhose
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Gotta love doing this stuff in PowerShell.  Thanks for sharing Dips.


dips
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  • July 28, 2023

Welcome @MarcoLuvisi @Chris.Childerhose 

Hope it comes in handy


dloseke
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  • July 31, 2023

Well that beats the heck of a mail flow rule that appends or prepends external emails IMO.  Thanks for this!


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