Office 365 student email

[northeast_technician]

hello, my school would like to give students access to email in school but in a safe way. we already use 365 for staff but want to introduce it to pupils too. is there a way of locking it down so the student group can only email other students and not go outside of the domain?

 

many thanks

[sted]

yes you can set any user or group permissions so they can only email internally You can even add exceptions to that if needed to say a partner school etc

[northeast_technician]

how do you set that? do you know off hand

[sted]

how do you set that? do you know off hand

 

off hand no its been ages since I looked at it ill see if I can remember/find it again

[FN-GM]

how do you set that? do you know off hand

 

You setup a transport rule. Its quite easy and obvious how to do it when you set it up.

[northeast_technician]

where do you set the rule at?

[Ant]

Go into your Exchange admin center and then under Mail Flow and Rules.

 

You should be able to use the rule options available to achieve exactly what you're after.

 

Edit: In our case it helps we use a different domain name for our student accounts.

 

Edited September 24, 2015 by Ant

[Michael]

Another common request (along the same lines) is to prevent/restrict pupils e-mailing Staff Distribution Groups. Again you can do this by applying rules. Exchange Server is very strong in this area and is quite flexible.

[northeast_technician]

great many thanks for your help and advice on this guys

[sted]

here you go (possibly you want to be a bit less harsh they my blanket "kill it with fire" rule but should get you started. Its in the exchange admin centre mail flow

 

Edited September 24, 2015 by sted

[StevieM]

The options you need are 'If an email is sent to/ received from Outside the organization [sic]'. I've set 'Do the following' to 'Prepend the subject with 'Blocked Mail' and redirect the message to [account]@[domain], so that I audit any failed attempts, but you can choose to do what you like.

[Techie2000]

Is there any function to block profanity or anything along those lines? Just in case Pupil A decides to tell Pupil B where to go!!

[FN-GM]

Is there any function to block profanity or anything along those lines? Just in case Pupil A decides to tell Pupil B where to go!!

 

Nope. Its just a hosted exchange system. To do that you would need a third party product of some kind.

[SteveM555]

Nope. Its just a hosted exchange system. To do that you would need a third party product of some kind.

 

You can do a basic version of this by creating a mail flow rule, you will need to enter the keywords yourself though ('Subject or Body contains any of the following words..').

[xlandhenry]

You might also consider hiding some address book from the students:

 

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