Information Technology Services

Microsoft 365 – Rule Violation Email

Outage category: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise

Location: All Mason Microsoft 365 Users

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users notified ITS asking about the purpose and the legitimacy of emails they received.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

As a part of a data cleanup effort with a vendor, an alert was inadvertently triggered that sent an email to Mason Microsoft 365 users. The emails were a result of a misconfiguration.

Resolution

The job was edited to cease emails.

Prevention

ITS engineers will leverage multiple layers of review for each setting, preventing future accidental emails.