FOPE Stands for “Forefront Online Protection for Exchange”. Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, (FOPE) is a hosted service that consists of layered technologies to help protect businesses’ incoming and outgoing e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations.
Using the FOPE Admin Center in Office 365…first ensure you have an E-plan subscription or this won’t work (you can check this under “manage subscriptions”).
To access FOPE:
This should open the FOPE Admin Center.
Under the “Administration” tab click “filters”. Here you can import “dictionary files from your previous email filter service. They must be a .csv file format, single column list of domains.
FOPE allows you to define all sorts of rules using Regular Expressions (RegEx) or using Dictionaries. Dictionaries are simply large CSV (Comma Separated Value) files that contain all of the extensions/blacklist IP to be blocked.
To understand Policy rule settings…click here.
To Create, Edit, or Delete a custom policy rules for your domains and your service..Click here.
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Published by Thomas on August 14, 2011
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