Disable-SafeAttachmentRule

Reference

Module:: ExchangePowerShell

Applies to:: Exchange Online

This cmdlet is available only in the cloud-based service.

Use the Disable-SafeAttachmentRule cmdlet to disable safe attachment rules in your cloud-based organization. This cmdlet is also responsible for disabling complete Safe Attachments policies in the admin center, which consist of the safe attachment rule and the corresponding assigned safe attachment policy in PowerShell.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax.

Syntax

Disable-SafeAttachmentRule
       [-Identity] <RuleIdParameter>
       [-Confirm]
       [-WhatIf]
       [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Safe Attachments is a feature in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that opens email attachments in a special hypervisor environment to detect malicious activity. For more information, see Safe Attachments in Defender for Office 365.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet.

Examples

Example 1

Disable-SafeAttachmentRule -Identity "Engineering Department Attachment Rule"

This example disables the safe attachment rule named Engineering Department Attachment Rule.

Parameters

-Confirm

The Confirm switch specifies whether to show or hide the confirmation prompt. How this switch affects the cmdlet depends on if the cmdlet requires confirmation before proceeding.

Destructive cmdlets (for example, Remove-* cmdlets) have a built-in pause that forces you to acknowledge the command before proceeding. For these cmdlets, you can skip the confirmation prompt by using this exact syntax: -Confirm:$false.
Most other cmdlets (for example, New-* and Set-* cmdlets) don't have a built-in pause. For these cmdlets, specifying the Confirm switch without a value introduces a pause that forces you acknowledge the command before proceeding.

This cmdlet has a built-in pause, so use -Confirm:$false to skip the confirmation.

Type:	SwitchParameter
Aliases:	cf
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Online

-Identity

The Identity parameter specifies the enabled safe attachment rule that you want to disable.

You can use any value that uniquely identifies the rule. For example:

Name
Distinguished name (DN)
GUID

Type:	RuleIdParameter
Position:	1
Default value:	None
Required:	True
Accept pipeline input:	True
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Online

-WhatIf

The WhatIf switch simulates the actions of the command. You can use this switch to view the changes that would occur without actually applying those changes. You don't need to specify a value with this switch.

Type:	SwitchParameter
Aliases:	wi
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Online

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