How to append a disclaimer in Exchange Online
On this post, i´ll explain how to configure a disclaimer on our Exchange Online subscription.
Even though you can configure it as part of the signature in our Outlook, this tutorial is specially good for companies with many pcs and users on one or more sites.
It´s good to say that this procedure covers all that an outlook signature can´t, i.e, mobile devices like BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone, IPhone, etc… that have the Exchange account configured, when sending e-mails, automatically append the disclaimer, and don´t write it every time we configure each one of our devices (including OWA).
It´s precise to remark before you continue reading this article, that the options we´ll be using, will only be available on E1, E2, E3, E4 and Exchange Online Plan 1 subscriptions. If we have an Office365 P1, we wont have those options available because that feature is not available on small and mid-sized company plans.
Once cleared this off, lets proceed creating our disclaimer on our Office365 environment.
- First of all, access the administration portal http://portal.microsoftonline.com , using the admin credentials.
- Once inside, go to «Manage» just under «Exchange» on the center area.
- It will open the Exchange Administration console of our company, then click where it says «Mail Control«
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Then go on and click on the button where it says «New«, in order to create a new rule.
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It will open a new windows where we can choose conditions, actions and set the name of the rule. We´ll begin setting the condition «If: the recipient is…» and select «Outside the Organization«.
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Then select the action to take if the condition is made. On our case we will select «Apply a disclaimer to the message» and «Append a Disclaimer».
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Click on «Enter Text» and write the text we want to appear on the disclaimer
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Then on Select One and «ignore«.
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Indicate a name to the rule i.e: «Disclaimer» and with all this, we have our disclaimer configured. Besides we still have to do something else to avoid a disclaimer nesting within a conversation, so lets click on the text where it says «More Options» to enable the exceptions.
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On this area, select the option «Except if…: the subject or the body…» and select the option «the subject contains one of this words…«
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A new window will open, where we can add the following words (including the «:») «Re:» y «Fw:» to avoid appending any disclaimer on answers and forwards.
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Accept and Save the rule, and from this moment we will have our disclaimer working.