IT Support Engineer

Fabio De Franca

Principal Solutions Architect

Jian An Lim

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Hi EE, We are trying to configure our Symantec/Broadcom anti-spam filter to work with Microsoft 365. Working through the guides and setting up inbound and outbound rules seems easy enough, the one thing that isn't mentioned is how do you setup the MX records. Currently our MX records are pointing at Symantec, do we need to set them to point at M365? Thanks Fabio
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Hi EE,
We are trying to configure our Symantec/Broadcom anti-spam filter to work with Microsoft 365.
Working through the guides and setting up inbound and outbound rules seems easy enough, the one thing that isn't mentioned is how do you setup the MX records.
Currently our MX records are pointing at Symantec, do we need to set them to point at M365?
Thanks
Fabio

Connect Symantec/broadcom to microsoft 365 - MX Records

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

MX Records

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.

AntiSpam

Symantec

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.