how to enable organization customization

Question

I am trying to customize my anti-spam and anti-phishing policies through the Security & Compliance Dashboard and it keeps telling me that I have to "Enable-OrganizationCustomization". How can I do this. I have looked at several threads and cannot get a straightforward answer.

What are the correct cmdlet input and output to do this?

Answer 1

Why do I have to run a powershell command to change settings in my own tenant??????
Settings I could freely change a year ago, what the bloody hell are Microsoft playing at?

Are you trying to drive users away from you diabolical platform?

Answer 2

Finally a step by step that works.
All thought I got an error on the "Enable-OrganizationCustomization"
I just skipped to the next line and it worked.
Thank you :)

Answer 3

This is the most solid way to fix the issue running Enable-OrganizationCustomization:

Update to the latest Powershell module, at the time of writing the latest version is EXO V2 2.0.6-Preview5

Run the following commands on elevated/Administrator Powershell on your LOCAL COMPUTER:

Install-Module PowershellGet -Force

Update-Module PowershellGet -Force

Install-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement -Force

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force

Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -RequiredVersion 2.0.6-Preview5 -AllowPrerelease

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force
Install-Module -Name PowerShellGet -Force -AllowClobber

Now sign in to the Microsoft 365 tenant: 

Connect-ExchangeOnline -Credential $UserCredential -ShowProgress $true

Ran the command:  

Enable-OrganizationCustomization

Then run the command Get-OrganizationConfig | fl isdehydrated

The status that you want to see is IsDehydrated : False

Works perfectly!

Answer 4

I worked with Microsoft 365 support tonight and they quickly fixed this problem for me. They said that after the first time you try to edit the policy, you can wait 24 hours and then will be able to enable external email forwarding, but to enable it immediately, just open Windows PowerShell as Administrator (you might need to download and install the Exchange Online PowerShell module first), then run the following commands:

Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName youremailher@yourdomainhere.com
Enable-OrganizationCustomization
Set-HostedOutboundSpamFilterPolicy -Identity Default -AutoForwardingMode On
Get-HostedOutboundSpamFilterPolicy -Identity Default

That's it! Woo Hoo!

Answer 5

Hello everybody

My problem : I want to authorize "forwarding" -
I find de way : https://security.microsoft.com/antispam, But before I need to authorize "customisation"

I do that :

1) $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection OK

2) Login admin : OK

3) Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking : NOK

• Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  • CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation : (:) [Import-PSSession], PSInvalidOperationException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportPSSessionCommand

4) Enable-OrganizationCustomization : NOK

• Enable-OrganizationCustomization
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Enable-OrganizationCustomization:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

If somebody has a way to resolve that, with all the command

Thanks and best regards
Gilbert