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rpodric
Bronze Contributor
Oct 17, 2017

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com

About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=   It destroys the URL visibil...
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Keith Evans's avatar
Keith Evans
Copper Contributor
Mar 27, 2018

I'm reading that alot of people are upset about this change and well, yes it is a little harder to easily read the URL, but this is a really good thing people.  Microsoft is really attempting to protect its customers, for free, in the same way that other major (Gartner Magic Quadrant) vendors/providers are for a very high cost.  

 

If you'd like a quick and simple URL decoder, I've posted one here that I distributed to my work and posted to the Intranet for staff/employees to use.

 

Decode Safelinks: Link

 

Request: One thing I would like if some MS MVP or ATP guru could tell me, what does each of the tokens (Data and Pipes '|' like "02|01|myemail@address.com|cfad9384a1804ef230af08d593f8b95b|0662477dfa0c4556a8f5c3bc62aa0d9c|0|0|636577618830257637") in the parameter string mean.  Is this information useful to IT that would enable us to discern more about the URL provided?

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Simon Bannister
Copper Contributor
Mar 27, 2018
It may be good if it worked consistently and correctly identified all malicious links, but it misses some so cannot be replied upon - That's why reading the URL is important to us who are complaining.

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