Exchange Online: Prevent $50K–$500K+ mail flow incidents

Rapid diagnosis and safe remediation for mail flow failures, NDRs, throttling, and delivery issues. Average MTTR: 15–30 minutes, preventing extended downtime and compliance exposure.

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DLP & Journaling

Data loss prevention, message journaling, and compliance hold issues. Diagnostic decision trees for silent drops and journal failures.

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Distribution Lists & Groups

Group expansion failures, dynamic distribution list issues, and member delivery problems.

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When to Use This Section

Use these guides when experiencing mail flow disruptions, delivery delays, or non-delivery reports (NDRs) in Exchange Online. Common scenarios include messages stuck in transport queues, 550 5.1.1 recipient rejections, throttling errors during bulk sends, NDR 554 policy blocks, or delayed delivery affecting time-sensitive workflows. These diagnostics cover both inbound and outbound mail flow, connector misconfigurations, transport rule conflicts, and tenant-level throttling policies. Start here for any P1 incident involving undelivered or delayed email.

Guides

Decision trees, error codes, and root cause patterns.

Response SLAs

Incidents routed to principal engineers; diagnostic-first approach.

P1: Critical Mail Block

Target: 10m acknowledgment, 30m diagnostic plan

No inbound/outbound mail, zero delivery, connector failure.

P2: Partial Delivery

Target: 30m acknowledgment, 90m diagnostic plan

Delays, routing failures, NDRs for some recipients, throttling.

P3: Advisory

Target: 2h acknowledgment, runbook provided

Preventive diagnostics, config review, optimization tips.