Mastering Office 365 Administration

The rules tab

Most of us are familiar with rules in Microsoft Outlook, such as forward all mail coming from [e-mail] to [e-mail] unless the subject message contains 'Re' or other such algorithms. Many of us keep our mailbox uncluttered (or try to, anyway) and organize mail using such rules.

You can establish rules here on the server as well, but the functionality is somewhat more limited than the rules that users can create for themselves. There are things you can do here that are technically rules, but so commonly performed by administrators that they've actually been given their own entry in a drop-down menu, such as Apply disclaimers... or Generate an incident report when sensitive information is detected... ...