Who the Governors can email

[Jawloms]

Morning all,

 

Exchange 2010 SP3.

 

The head has asked me to make it so that the governors can't email the students. They don't know the vast majority of them and there's concern that they could send something sensitive to a student's email account rather than a member of staff with a similar name. This is complicated very slightly by the obvious fact that some of our governors are teachers/support staff in school so do need to email the students. I've had a look and it seems to me that to do this I could add the non-employed-here governors to a new group, then on the student's mailboxes use the "Reject messages from" and select my new group.

 

Is this the best way?

 

Thank you

 

Stuart

[3s-gtech]

You could use mail flow rules to reject messages from any members of the governors group to the students group, with a bounce message. I haven't used 2010 to know how the rules are added or the flexibility of them, but I know it has much of the functionality of 2013 and 2016.

[Jawloms]

You could use mail flow rules to reject messages from any members of the governors group to the students group, with a bounce message. I haven't used 2010 to know how the rules are added or the flexibility of them, but I know it has much of the functionality of 2013 and 2016.

 

Yeah, that's where I was going. Anyone know if it's possible to apply the rejection ruling to a database as all the kids are in a seperate one from the governors?

 

Stuart

[elsiegee40]

From a governance point of view, I agree with your Head. There is absolutely no reason for a governor to email a pupil directly

[Jawloms]

From a governance point of view, I agree with your Head. There is absolutely no reason for a governor to email a pupil directly

 

So do I, that's why I'm trying to enforce it.

[jthompson]

When we used Exchange 2010, we set up our student groups to only accept messages from members of the staff AD security group (which would not include non-staff governors). That only covers the student distribution lists, however, not individuals.

 

You could use PowerShell to add a 'reject messages from governors security group' type rule to all individual student mailboxes. You'd have to look up the commands for achieving that, though.

[Jawloms]

When we used Exchange 2010, we set up our student groups to only accept messages from members of the staff AD security group (which would not include non-staff governors). That only covers the student distribution lists, however, not individuals.

 

You could use PowerShell to add a 'reject messages from governors security group' type rule to all individual student mailboxes. You'd have to look up the commands for achieving that, though.

 

Hiya,

 

This is also possible via the GUI, but if I can do it on the database I'd prefer it as then I don't need to remember to do it for every new student, it'll just apply automatically. It's looking like it can't be done per database though.

[3s-gtech]

If the students are in a security group (created in Exchange management), you can apply it to that.

[Jawloms]

If the students are in a security group (created in Exchange management), you can apply it to that.

 

I thought doing that would stop the governors emailing the group itself, but they'd still be able to email directly the individual members of it. I am more than happy to be told I am wrong!

[3s-gtech]

No, that would be if you used a distribution group. A security group allows you to apply a setting to all members, just like in AD/GP.