Comments on: Using Exchange Transport Rules to Add Email Signatures to Messages https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/ Practical Office 365 News, Tips, and Tutorials Tue, 03 May 2022 19:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Ramiro https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-238392 Tue, 03 May 2022 19:42:18 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-238392 In reply to Jonathan Humphrey.

OMG 2022 and same issue

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By: Jonathan Humphrey https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-228715 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:55:44 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-228715 In reply to Paul Cunningham.

4 years later same problem. Sad times

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By: Brian Parme https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-160225 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:09:41 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-160225 Just to clarify the limitation you have mentioned can actually be mitigated by using Regular Expressions in your exception. Instead of choosing subject or body includes any of these words, you would pick subject or body matches these text patterns and enter something like this: (of\sthe\sdisclaimer\smessage\sblah\sblah\sblah\.\s*)$

That would match only if the disclaimer was already at the very end of the message.

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By: Solving the Email Signature Problem for Exchange Mailbox Users – IT Tech Pro https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-157728 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 06:06:28 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-157728 […] capabilities to insert email signatures using mail flow rules is quite limited as described by Paul Cunningham. This problem is so common that a healthy ecosystem of third party solutions evolved over the […]

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By: Nitin https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-156904 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:27:41 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-156904 Paul. I am using Exchange online. As you have mentioned, the rule will add the disclaimer text to the end of all outbound email messages, except if the text already exists to avoid multiple disclaimer.

The exception condition is not working that results in adding multiple disclaimer at the end. I have opened the case with Microsoft for this issue and the Microsoft engineer was able to reproduce the same issue and it was assigned to product engineering team now.

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By: Brian Murphy https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-79298 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 02:52:20 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-79298 This is a perfect example of how bad the options are when it comes to transport rules. Imagine a scenario where a company rebrands and email primary changes and you must send a notice out that is professional but need something like a transport rule to prevent it from delivering per a court decision but you are allowed to retain the domain long enough to provide a professional response back for a customer. And you are limited by the amount of characters you can use. Ability to at least strip the sender out and notify the intended recipient “hey, we did our job and here is what happened”, to a professional operation of sending a daily report to managers you did this as well.

The hoops you have to jump through to change a primary SMTP domain in a onprem / Office 365 Hybrid mode for a new domain after the mailboxes have already migrated and all changes must be made on prem but the MX record for that and the prior domain hits a SPAM Cloud, disable archiving on the old domain, send it to 365 and your only option is a Transport Rule to block this domain and reply with a shortest message possible and the customer hoping you are getting the job done and few ways to prove it beyond sending from gmail to an account in the old domain to validate the transport rule is working and getting back a really unprofessional looking email that says this was the domain and now it is this? And that is one example.

Of all the things that must be accomplished to add a domain to an Exchange Organization, with AD and Exchange On-Prem but running in Hybrid-Mode, mailboxes already migrated to the cloud, new UPN, new SMTP alias, domain registration, managed DNS, adding the domain to Office 365, TXT records, SRV records (Skype for Business), then swapping out the existing primary to secondary, taking the secondary of first.last@newdomain.com, and on set date except mail from original primary SMTP domain, don’t deliver it, drop it, respond with a message. I have most of that scripted. That is the easy part. Notice how all of that is just a dependency to get on Exchange Online and use the Transport rule in the first place.

If you want to contribute and fix this… Take a look at this link below. And no, I’m not trying to intentional redirect you here and the site does require you sign up if not mistaken in full disclosure but this is where I’m published and help others. Microsoft is wasting my and the customers time with products like Yammer and Delve and other things that cause mass confusion if you enable them on the E3 license without a full fledged business plan and Transport Rules haven’t changed in years and the most optimal way to deal with certain scenarios and where on-prem you can buy thirdparty products you have lost all control once that migration batch says “Completed successfully”. This is a technology issue, industry wide. I know what I’m doing about it – what are you doing about it?

Me
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vcissgroup

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29019440/New-SMTP-and-old-SMTP-Drop-old-SMTP-but-respond-with-custom-message-to-external-recipient-a-lot-more-Revised.html

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By: Paul Cunningham https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-23601 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:03:18 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-23601 In reply to Rami Ismail.

Like the article says, that’s the expected behavior.

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By: Rami Ismail https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-23600 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:39:38 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-23600 In the Office 365 Exchange online I need to append html signatures on each reply or forwarded message, but the problem is that it appends only at the bottom of the old conversation messages and not inserting a new signature in the new replied or forwarded messages, is there any solution for this?

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By: Paul Cunningham https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-23599 Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:24:28 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-23599 In reply to Paul Cunningham.

If you have multiple transport rules that are applying signatures, then yes I would suspect that more than one rule is applying for that sender. You’ll just need to go into your transport rules (aka Mail flow rules) and inspect their conditions, and then look at the sender and try to determine why multiple rules are applying.

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By: Thami https://practical365.com/using-exchange-transport-rules-to-add-email-signatures-to-messages/#comment-23598 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:34:45 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=15092#comment-23598 In reply to Paul Cunningham.

HI Paul

I might be not answering your question properly, as I said I am new I am new in th field,

I am told that it is suspected that multiple rules are wrongly applied to this user account, which I need to figure it out,

I think getting a way out to that would be helpful, in short I think I need to be able to view what rules are applied to this specific mailbox as emai are going out.

Please can you guide me how, we are on exchange 2013

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