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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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Robert Woods's avatar
Robert Woods
Steel Contributor
Mar 25, 2018

Are you on Office 365? This is on the roadmap, and most likely coming to consumer Outlook also.

Removal of Safe Links Re-write for Outlook Client(s)

For users using Outlook, Safe Links will render the original URL and not show the re-written URL. This will enable users to view the original link that arrives in an email.
Estimated Release: Q4 CY2018
Feature ID: 16401
Added to Roadmap: 09/01/2017
Last modified : 03/24/2018
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Michael Smith
Copper Contributor
Mar 25, 2018

I’ve had my hotmail account for years and yes I have Office 365 Personal edition, I use Outlook 2016 when at PC but mainly apple mail on iPad and iPhone when on the go which is most of the time. I will try sending links from outlook and see if it does not change them, should it not change the links I suppose I’ll have to use outlook email client on my mobile devices yet I should not have to nor should this service be forced on me or any user which as I said earlier teaches users bad habits of trusting these long links which hackers will easily catch on and change one piece of the code then re direct users incorrectly. This is the worst move I’ve seen MS do in quite some time now.

 I did not notice these links changing till a month or two ago when a client I work with brought to my attention as I had sent him an email with several links to different products he had asked me to compare (I’m IT Admin for local law firm and own my own small IT ontract company).

 

After finding this article this weekend, I’ve tried to find a way to contact Microsoft and only get the chat option (no option to email them to request them to remove this).

 

Perhaps its due to the weekend and no one is answering their chat service which just opens the chat box, spins and then gives an error code “CV:xxx”. 

 

If anyone has a way I can contact MS as the lady in this post suggest, please let me know.

 

Otherwise i’ll Attempt to contact them during the week next week once again.