Get a first look at Exchange Server 2016, the on-premises release that we plan to ship in the second half of this year. Come learn about the innovation in Exchange Server 2016 that will help you keep up with evolving requirements for user productivity and information protection. This session will give you the starting point who want to know what’s coming from on-premises Exchange.

Meet Exchange Server 2016
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Using Transport rules, you can look for specific conditions in messages that pass through your organization and take action on them. Transport rules let you apply messaging policies to email messages, secure messages, protect messaging systems, and prevent information leakage.

Many organizations today are required by law, regulatory requirements, or company policies to apply messaging policies that limit the interaction between recipients and senders, both inside and outside the organization. In addition to limiting interactions among individuals, departmental groups inside the organization, and entities outside the organization, some organizations are also subject to the following messaging policy requirements:

• Preventing inappropriate content from entering or leaving the organization

• Filtering confidential organization information

• Tracking or archiving copying messages that are sent to or received from specific individuals

• Redirecting inbound and outbound messages for inspection before delivery

• Applying disclaimers to messages as they pass through the organization

Overview of Transport rules
Transport rules are similar to the Inbox rules that are available in many email clients. The main difference between Transport rules and rules you would set up in a client application such as Outlook is that Transport rules take action on messages while they’re in transit as opposed to after the message is delivered. Transport rules also contain a richer set of conditions, exceptions, and actions, which provides you with the flexibility to create a customized rule. You can create up to 100 Transport rules in order to implement your business-rule compliance.

The following list summarizes the basic workflow for Transport rules:

1. You create Transport rules to meet your business needs.

2. As messages go through your organization, the Transport rules agent is invoked. The Transport rules agent is a special component that checks messages against the Transport rules you create.

3. The Transport rules agent scans the message, and if the message fits the conditions you specify in a Transport rule, it takes the specified action on that message.

Transport rule components

Transport rules consist of the following components:

• Conditions   Use Transport rule conditions to specify the characteristics of messages to which you want to apply a Transport rule action. Conditions consist of one or more predicates that specify the parts of a message that should be examined. Some predicates examine message fields or headers, such as the To, From, or Cc fields. Other predicates examine message characteristics such as message subject, body, attachments, message size, and message classification. Most predicates require that you specify a comparison operator, such as equals, doesn’t equal, or contains, and a value to match.

• Exceptions Exceptions are based on the same predicates used to build Transport rule conditions. However, unlike conditions, exceptions identify messages to which Transport rule actions shouldn’t be applied. Exceptions override conditions and prevent actions from being applied to an email message, even if the message matches all configured conditions.

• Actions Actions are applied to messages that match the conditions and don’t match any exceptions defined in the Transport rule. Transport rules have many actions available, such as rejecting, deleting, or redirecting messages, adding additional recipients, adding prefixes in the message subject, or inserting disclaimers in the message body.

For a complete list of Transport rule predicates, see Transport Rule Predicates. The list of predicates is also available in the Transport rule dialog in the EAC. If you use the Shell, you can retrieve the list of predicates by using the Get-TransportRulePredicate cmdlet.

For a complete list of Transport rule actions available, see Transport Rule Actions. The list of actions is also available in the Transport rule dialog box in the EAC. If you use the Shell, you can retrieve the list of actions by using the Get-TransportRuleAction cmdlet.

To create Transport Rules in Office 365, first must log into Office 365portal https://portal.microsoftonline.com/default.aspx and go to the following location:

1. Go to Admin and choose Exchange

2.  Navigate to Mail Flow (from the left site) and choose Rules

This is where any and all transport rules can be created and applied

Once you are in the rules area of the O365 portal, you perform the following:

1. Press the + sign and then select Create a new rule

2. Choose a name for this rule and choose the rule for your condition (depends what you want to achieve)
3. Choose the option that apply for your condition and after you finished click on Save

4. Now, this rule is ready to be applied to all emails coming through your Office 365 tenant.

For comprehensive information on Transport Rules as a whole, refer to the following link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351127(v=exchg.150).aspx

Outlook Rules
A rule is an action that Microsoft Outlook runs automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you have specified.

Rules help reduce manually filing or taking the same action when a similar message arrives. Unlike Quick Steps, rules typically are always on and run automatically. For example, when a message is received from a specified person, it’s automatically moved to the folder that you designate.

The Rules Wizard helps you design rules to manage messages. Rules fall into one of two categories — organization and notification.

The Rules Wizard includes templates for the most frequently used rules, which include the following:

Stay Organized    These rules help you file and follow up on messages. For example, you can create a rule for messages from a specific sender, such as Anne Weiler, with the word “sales” in the Subject line, to be flagged for follow-up, categorized as Sales, and moved to a folder named Anne’s Sales.

Stay Up to Date    These rules notify you in some way when you receive a particular message. For example, you can create a rule that automatically sends a message to a mobile device when you receive a message from a family member.

Start from a blank rule    These are rules that you create without the aid of a rule template and that you can completely customize.

Create a rule

Outlook includes rule templates for common scenarios. Use these rule templates, or create design your own custom rules.

1. Click the File tab, click Manage Rules & Alerts

2. In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, on the E-mail Rules tab, click New Rule
3. Follow the wizard and at the end click Finish

Additional Information:
Manage email messages by using rules
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/manage-email-messages-by-using-rules-HA102749402.aspx

Today, I manage to complete the bellow script, in order some basic Office 365 User Creation and License assignment to be automate with one click

This script automate execute steps for Office 365 Administrator Tasks.
By choosing only a number, you can manage your Office 365 Tasks.

What do you need to know before you begin?

• Make sure you have already installed Windows Azure AD PowerShell
• You must check and be sure your server or your computer has access to the internet

Let’s have a quick look how to execute the script O365Tool_v1.0 on Windows PowerShell and what this script do for us.

1. Login to your computer with Administrator credentials
2. Start Windows Azure AD PowerShell “As Administrator”

1. Next step, copy the script O365Tool_v1.0 on (C:\O365Tool_v1.0) folder or create the O365Tool_v1.0 folder in your preferred destination

1. Let’s start by running the script from Windows Azure AD PowerShell itself.
   In case you get weird error messages when you try to run a script, the reason is only one, security settings built into Windows PowerShell include something called the “execution policy” the execution policy determines how (or if) PowerShell runs scripts. By default, PowerShell’s execution policy is set to Restricted that means that scripts – including those you write yourself – won’t run.
   Navigate back to Windows PowerShell and set the Execution policy to unrestricted in order to be able to run the script, in that case, use this command to set your execution policy to RemoteSigned or Unrestricted

Note: The Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet enables you to determine which Windows PowerShell scripts (if any) will be allowed to run on your computer.

Windows PowerShell has four different execution policies:

• Restricted – No scripts can be run. Windows PowerShell can be used only in interactive mode.
• AllSigned – Only scripts signed by a trusted publisher can be run.
• RemoteSigned – Downloaded scripts must be signed by a trusted publisher before they can be run.
• Unrestricted – No restrictions; all Windows PowerShell scripts can be run.

1. The most common (default) way to run a script is by calling it:

PS C:\> & “C:\Admin\My first Script.ps1”

If the path does not contain any spaces, then you can omit the quotes and the ‘&’ operator

PS C:\> C:\Admin\Myscript.ps1

If the script is in the current directory, you must indicate this using .\ (or ./ will also work)

PS C:\> .\Myscript.ps1

Create the folders:

Main folder: O365Tool

Subfolder’s: Logs and Exports

In our case scenario we run the script in the current directory “C:\O365Tool_v1.0” so, we must indicate this using .\ and we click Enter

1. Prepare the CSV file ” the file is included on the script zip”

1. Type your Global Admin credentials, Username and Password in order to login

1. Our script now it starts running, select an option from the menu. In my case scenario, I will select option 1, to start the creation of the new users and then to proceed with the rest of the options.

Users are now created:

Option 2, Set UsageLocation:

Option 3, as I have only EnterprisePack:

Option 5, Export Mailboxes from Office 365:

Option 6: The script has a timer for how long the script is execute:

Enjoy…

Download the Script here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Office-365-User-Creation-b8e48121

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