Office 365 mail rules for education

Recently my firm Paradyne has been signing up and deploying K-12 schools in Australia to Office 365 at a rate of knots.

One of the concerns we easily overcome is around monitoring the Exchange Online environment and protecting students from bullying and other negative behaviours.

Previously in Live@Edu (the predecessor to Office 365 for Education) Microsoft supplied some out-of-the-box supervision policies based on Exchange transport rules.

This is no longer the case with Office 365 for Education, however on the UK Education Cloud Blog they provided a guide for how to re-create these supervision policies:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukliveatedu/archive/2012/03/02/supervision-policies-for-exchange-online-in-office-365-for-education.aspx