Long story short: EOP sucks.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of xyz
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Exchange] Change in cloud EOP support?

Greetings,
Just a heads up and wondering if anyone else has seen new MS support polices 
yet?
EXCHANGE 2010 SP2 RU3
1200 faculty/staff users.

We converted from Cloud FOPE to EOP in January 2014 per MS indicating I had to 
do this within 30 days or no more email delivery.

I did this months ago  ( a few issues conversion issues which MS resolved ) but 
all has been working with NO changes:
UNTIL  7/23/14 - when we had a flood of user calls with all kinds of SPAM 
coming into our on premise EXCHANGE 2010 servers from numerous users.
As many know with EOP, the quarantine message now can come daily, vs EOP where 
it was 3 days.
Checking with numerous users, no one I spoke with has even had a quarantine 
message since this problem started so the EOP quarantine process seems to be 
broken.



I opened a ticket with Premier Support and included a couple of clips below 
with the response.

Hard to understand, but summary  I was told that the only way to currently deal 
with SPAM is to inform all 1200 users how to submit SPAM emails on an 
individual basis to the MS SPAM link.
I was told that no one at MS is able to access our EOP other than the SPAM 
group and that they only deal with the individual SPAM submission, not our EOP.

To be fair to MS, they did send me this link to create new transport rules.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj837173(v=exchg.150).aspx

Not sure I want to make major changes to production and why we would want this 
stuff going into on premise, rather than being quarantined and since they have 
to be hands off, not sure if they will help if something breaks.

Anyway, clips below from TAM and Premier support.
Thank you
Dana

Per Premier Support:
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Hi Dana,
Thanks for your patience.
This is sort of a canned response but if you were previously a FOPE client and 
have worked with us on that service, there have been a few changes to how you 
deal with spam under EOP and O365.

Previously we were able to take your samples and direct them to the anti spam 
team. This is no longer the case per se, as you must now use the spam 
submission tool for outlook and/or the manual option.

Please see this link, 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200769(v=exchg.150).aspx, it will 
explain how to do it.

Now, that being said, I do have the ability to work with the team directly if 
needed. At this point it is best to recommend that you send me a few of the 
same examples that you submit via the tool. Please put the raw .msg files in a 
zip (3-4 of them) and I will take a look. Make sure that your users are not 
forwarding them to you but rather attaching them so the original headers are 
retained.

There is not much I can do but make recommendations based on the contents of 
the email themselves, only the anti spam team can now make changes to the edge 
servers other than the options in the EAC which you can turn on and off (we no 
longer have access to client interfaces like we did in the previous product due 
to new privacy laws in the US).

If you can send me the samples, I'd be happy to assist, but make sure the same 
samples are submitted to the anti spam team so that if I have to escalate to 
them, the submissions are already there waiting.

Per Our TAM:
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I haven't run into this until now but from the engineer's response, it is quite 
clear that due to new privacy laws in the US, the engineers no longer have 
access to the client interfaces. You should definitely work with the engineer 
to get him some examples of SPAM you are receiving but also make sure you 
submit the SPAM examples with that tool to the ant-spam team since they are the 
ones who can make changes on the edge servers if changes are required.


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