Tag: User role assignment policy

Microsoft announced a new component for OWA distribution list management but clearly the engineers never took role assignment policy customizations into account. If they had, they wouldn’t have created something that ignores the way organizations block end user ability to create new distribution lists. It’s just a sad indication of Microsoft’s attitude to one of the workhorses of Exchange.

Exchange Online allows users to add personal retention tags to their maiboxes through OWA settings. Some organizations don’t like this, so they can deploy user role assignment policies to block the feature. It;s something that you could consider doing if you’re preparing to switchover to Office 365 retention policies to impose the same retention regime across multiple workloads.