SPF Archives - Practical 365 Practical Office 365 News, Tips, and Tutorials Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:51:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://practical365.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/favicon.png SPF Archives - Practical 365 32 32 TEC Tips: Email Protection Basics https://practical365.com/email-protection-basics/ https://practical365.com/email-protection-basics/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://practical365.com/?p=61080 Email is a primary target for breaches, making it crucial to have a strong line of defense for your email security. In this blog, we go over some Email Protection basics to help keep your organization safe.

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]]> https://practical365.com/email-protection-basics/feed/ 11 The Most Important Steps an Administrator Can Take to Make Exchange Online Secure by Default https://practical365.com/the-most-important-steps-an-exo-administrator-needs-to-take-to-make-exo-secure-by-default/ https://practical365.com/the-most-important-steps-an-exo-administrator-needs-to-take-to-make-exo-secure-by-default/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:08:22 +0000 https://practical365.com/?p=52938 There are many ways in which you can improve the security of your Exchange Online environment. In this article, Sean McAvinue details the most important steps that admins can immediately implement to align Exchange Online tenants with a good security baseline and posture.

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]]> https://practical365.com/the-most-important-steps-an-exo-administrator-needs-to-take-to-make-exo-secure-by-default/feed/ 1 Use SPF and DKIM to Keep Your Email out of Recipients’ Spam Folders https://practical365.com/how-to-keep-your-emails-out-of-the-recipients-spam-folder/ https://practical365.com/how-to-keep-your-emails-out-of-the-recipients-spam-folder/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:17:08 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=41984 In this post, Microsoft MVP Alan Byrne explains how to configure the two most effective technologies that will ensure your outgoing email is successfully delivered. These technologies are known as Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and they protect your outgoing emails from being marked as spam while also flagging and blocking any incoming messages from unauthorized servers spoofing your domain.

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]]> https://practical365.com/how-to-keep-your-emails-out-of-the-recipients-spam-folder/feed/ 6 The Junkings will Continue Until Morale Improves https://practical365.com/exchange-online-protection-anti-spoofing-false-positives/ https://practical365.com/exchange-online-protection-anti-spoofing-false-positives/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:25:27 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=40639 A recent increase in email spoofing false positives causing legitimate email to go to Outlook junk folders can be explained by a change in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection.

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]]> https://practical365.com/exchange-online-protection-anti-spoofing-false-positives/feed/ 50 The Curious Case of the Quarantined Azure AD Identity Protection Weekly Digests https://practical365.com/quarantined-azure-ad-identity-protection-weekly-digests/ https://practical365.com/quarantined-azure-ad-identity-protection-weekly-digests/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:06:11 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=40380 A curious case of legitimate Azure Active Directory Identity Protection weekly digest emails being quarantined by Exchange Online Protection when international spam filtering is enabled.

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]]> https://practical365.com/quarantined-azure-ad-identity-protection-weekly-digests/feed/ 5 Do You Really Need an SPF Record? https://practical365.com/really-need-spf-record/ https://practical365.com/really-need-spf-record/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:32:57 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=40022 Are Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records in DNS necessary for domains these days?

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]]> https://practical365.com/really-need-spf-record/feed/ 21 This Sender Failed Our Fraud Detection Checks and May Not Be Who They Appear to Be https://practical365.com/sender-failed-fraud-detection-checks-error-junk-email/ https://practical365.com/sender-failed-fraud-detection-checks-error-junk-email/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2016 01:53:21 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=870 Email messages may be found in the Junk Email folder of Outlook with a message that fraud detection checks failed, warning that the message may be spoofed.

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]]> https://practical365.com/sender-failed-fraud-detection-checks-error-junk-email/feed/ 71 Emails from Website Not Received in Exchange or Exchange Online https://practical365.com/emails-from-website-not-received-in-exchange-or-exchange-online/ https://practical365.com/emails-from-website-not-received-in-exchange-or-exchange-online/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=14340 Emails sent using web forms on a website may not be received in the mailbox of the recipient due to a configuration or filtering issue.

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]]> https://practical365.com/emails-from-website-not-received-in-exchange-or-exchange-online/feed/ 6 Exchange Best Practices: SPF Records https://practical365.com/exchange-best-practices-spf-records/ https://practical365.com/exchange-best-practices-spf-records/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=13243 Sender Policy Framework (SPF) allows email administrators to reduce email spoofing of their domain by implementing special DNS records.

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]]> https://practical365.com/exchange-best-practices-spf-records/feed/ 3 A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Primer for Exchange Administrators https://practical365.com/a-sender-policy-framework-spf-primer-for-exchange-administrators/ https://practical365.com/a-sender-policy-framework-spf-primer-for-exchange-administrators/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:00:03 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=12175 Learn how Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records work to prevent email spoofing, and how you can implement the correct SPF record for your domain.

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