Almost every Enterprise around the world, loves to maintain its brand
value and image in every aspect of its communications with customers. As
Email is a very powerful communication tool, standardizing or branding
the email signature becomes necessary.
Apart from branding or standardizing the email signature, there raise
the legal requirements, for example in United Kingdom(UK), the public
limited, private limited and LLP companies needs to mention company
name, company address, company registration address, and registration
place(Uk or Scotland) clearly on their email signatures also.
In this blog, we shall explore two ways to standardize the email
signatures in Office365.
1. Add Auto Signature to individual users via Powershell
(Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration) 2. Add Auto Signature via Exchange
Transport Rule (Disclaimer)
1. Add Auto Signature to individual users via Powershell
(Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration)
We can use Exchange Online Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration cmdlet to set
the auto-signature for every outgoing email. This cmdlet provides option
to set both plan text and html email signature. Below example is to set
a HTML email signature for an user and make it as default.
Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration -Identity jack -AutoAddSignature $true
-SignatureHtml “Jack
Product Support Team
JiJi Technologies“-DefaultFormat HTML
You can create a branded signature using the above cmdlet by including
your company logo, background etc. You can also standardize email
signature across your entire organization to include the title,
department name, phone number, email address by fetching the information
from your Active Directory or Azure.
2. Add Auto Signature via Exchange Transport Rule (Disclaimer)
Another way to enforce the consistent email signature is by using the
Exchange Transport Rule (ETR). Every email message flowing in or out of
organization can’t escape the transport layer of Exchange Server. The
below cmdlet creates new ETR rule to include the email signature in
every email goes out and it does not append the email signature on reply
emails.
New-TransportRule -Name “EmailSignaturePolicy” -Enabled $True
-SentToScope “NotInOrganization” -ApplyHtmlDisclaimerLocation”Append”
-ApplyHtmlDisclaimerText “
%%displayname%%
%%title%%
%%company%%
%%street%%
%%city%%, %%state%% %%zipcode%% This message contains confidential
information and is intended only for the individual(s) addressed in the
message. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate,
distribute, or copy this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient,
you are notified that disclosing, distributing, or copying this e-mail
is strictly prohibited. -ExceptIfSubjectOrBodyContainsWords “This
message contains confidential information “
In the above cmdlet we have standardized the email signature by fetching
the user display name, title, and other company information from the
directory services. Refer this technet
website(https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/jj919235(v=exchg.150).aspx)
for set of attributes that can used in the ETR.
The above described methods work fine in OWA, but it is difficult to
enforce the email signature on Outlook clients. Also drafting a
professional HTML signature is time consuming one.
In our product GingerEx for Email Signature you can
** You can design your signature in minutes using our designer.
** You can enforce email signature with different templates for each
department.
** You can place users photo, logo with ease.
** Users profile information can be auto-populated.
** You can pre schedule different signature templates for campaigns
like New Year,Christmas or Thanks giving day by mentioning activation
and expiration date.
