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Create, Edit, or Delete a Policy Rule
Applies to: Office 365 for enterprises, Live@edu, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
Topic Last Modified: 2012-05-02
You can create, edit, and delete custom policy rules for your domains and your Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) service in the Policy Rule sub-tab of the Administration tab in the FOPE Administration Center. For more information about policy rule options, see Policy Rules.
The ability to view and change policies depends upon the access permissions of the logged-in user. Thus every user may not be able to perform the procedures described in this topic. For more information about access to the FOPE Administration Center, see Sign in and out of the Administration Center.
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Sign in to the FOPE Administration Center with an Administrator account.
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On the Administration tab, click the Policy Rule sub-tab.
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In the Tasks pane, click New Policy Rule.
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Select the options you want to use for your policy rule. For a complete description of all options and parameters, see Understanding Policy Rule Settings.
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Select the syntax type (Basic or RegEx) that you want to use. For more information about the syntax types, see Understanding Policy Rule Syntax.
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In the appropriate text fields, such as Message Body, for the desired match criteria, such as e-mail part, use the appropriate syntax characters to enter the values for which you want to scan. To add values using the Dictionary option, see Configuring Filters in FOPE.
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In the Actions pane, click Save Policy Rule.
Note: New rules take effect approximately one hour after they have been saved. The following is a view of the New Policy Rule dialog box.
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Sign in to the FOPE Administration Center with an Administrator account.
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On the Administration tab, click the Policy Rule sub-tab.
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In the All Policy Rules pane, click the rule ID of the policy rule you want to modify. The management information for that policy rule appears in the Policy Rule tab.
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Modify the options and parameters as needed.
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In the Actions pane, click Save Policy Rule.
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Sign in to the FOPE Administration Center with an Administrator account.
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On the Administration tab, click the Policy Rule sub-tab.
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In the All Policy Rules pane, click the rule ID of the policy rule you want to modify. The management information for that policy rule appears in the Policy Rule tab.
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In the Actions pane, click Delete Policy Rule.
