O365 Licence and Email, Turning off being able to send and retrieve email

Good afternoon all. Working with NHS rolling out their shared tenancy. Each NHS staff may be given a Apps for enterprise licence, with in their organisation to allow Word to work with Patients reco...

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VasilMichev
Feb 15, 2021
You can simply disable the Exchange Online service plan on the license, so that no mailbox is provisioned at all for such users. If you do need them to have a mailbox for some reason, you can configure a mail flow rule that blocks sending/receiving messages and scope it to members of a given group, then add such accounts to said group after creation.

VasilMichev

MVP

Feb 15, 2021

You can simply disable the Exchange Online service plan on the license, so that no mailbox is provisioned at all for such users. If you do need them to have a mailbox for some reason, you can configure a mail flow rule that blocks sending/receiving messages and scope it to members of a given group, then add such accounts to said group after creation.

Ralphross
Copper Contributor
Feb 16, 2021
VasilMichev
Thank you so much, will need to see if this could be done on Our Shared NHS exchange

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