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Office 365 and Microsoft 365 has a service called “safe links” where it prescans the urls that users receive in emails. Per the Microsoft 365 twitter
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – Microsoft safe links is having issues]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I’m going to disagree here and say you shouldn’t be using safe links. It encourages bad behavior like clicking on a link just because MS says it’s safe without thinking about whether the email is legit or not. Users also can no longer hover over links and check the URL before clicking. It’s one of those feel good technologies, it makes us feel safer because MS says the links are safe. I mean look at the URL, it has the words “safe” and “protection” right in there, so it must be safe, right?
… ability to track it through your Advanced Threat Protection portal.
Only available for Enterprise/Education E5/A5 accounts? (No portal is included with Home/Personal accounts, or even standard business accounts as far as I can tell.)
Users also can no longer hover over links and check the URL before clicking.
There is a plan to change that right about now:
Beginning in October 2018 and rolling out over the next several months, when people are using Outlook Web Application (OWA) or Outlook, ATP Safe Links renders original URLs, not rewritten URLs. (We call this native link visibility.)
New features are continually being added to ATP
Hover over a link in Outlook to see the original URL even when protected by Safelinks.
Added to Roadmap: 6/26/2018 Last Modified: 1/25/2019
Office 365 is now part of the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
(I wonder if that change implementation could be part of the current outage?)
IMHO you can still see what the url is, it’s just a matter of education of what to expect.
Not sure how I can tell this is a genuine link to an AskWoody comment, without a painful double cut and paste?
If you need to convert these links, you might want to try using http://www.o365atp.com/
Can this be trusted to give a safe translation, as it’s not a Microsoft site (and registered via a hosting company, with no identity revealed on the page)?
Safelinks are working for me now (weren’t a few hours ago).
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