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Query severity of forthcoming O365 Auto-forwarding policy change
Roadmap ID 63831 explains how the Outbound Spam protection filter will gain an auto-forwarding control whereby an organisation can prevent auto-forwarding to external addresses. Furthermore, the defa...
Later on Friday an announcement came through our Message Center feed "...on September 1st, 2020 the Auto-Forwarding Policy will be enforced for tenants who have configured their policy to "On" or "Off", this includes tenants that had users external forwarding prior to September 1st 2020. Your tenant has been identified as having existing users using external forwarding prior to September 1st 2020, and for this reason the “Automatic” setting will default to “on”, i.e. external forwarding is allowed. We will contact you through a separate message center post when the “Automatic” setting will be updated to “off”."