Remove or disable the Microsoft report phishing button from Outlook.

Question

how to remove or disable the Microsoft report phishing button from Outlook. As one of our clients is looking to disable the Report phishing feature for all its users.

Answer 1

Run the below in ExchangeOnline PS to check, if both is False it is still there.

Get-ReportSubmissionPolicy | Select-Object -Property Name,EnableThirdPartyAddress,EnableReportToMicrosoft

Run the below cmdlet to enable the third party address, This must be enabled.
Set-ReportSubmissionPolicy -Identity DefaultReportSubmissionPolicy  -EnableThirdPartyAddress $true

Run the below to disable ReportToMS , this must be false.
Set-ReportSubmissionPolicy -Identity DefaultReportSubmissionPolicy  -EnableReportToMicrosoft $false

Worked for us.

Then run the first cmd to confirm. You can also check on the web interface. MS needs to fix the coding in the webUI.

Answer 2

Hi there, the question remains. Can you remove the Microsoft phish report button completely. We have our own phish reporting product. When our users accidentally use Microsoft's report button instead of ours the phish email gets reported to the wrong place. We would like to disable the Microsoft feature. Is this possible? If so, where is that setting.

Okay, found it. On the page linked above, you have to select Use a non-Microsoft add-in button. That is supposed to remove the MS one.

Answer 3

Same problem, it was previously removed. But recently came back.

We have setup "Select an Outlook report button configuration" to "Use a non-Microsoft add-in button" on https://security.microsoft.com/securitysettings/userSubmission .

But it now keeps showing the default and our third-party phishing button. This is very confusing for our users

Answer 4

for everyone on this thread we found the root cause and will raise a fix on Monday. It should address the issue of user reported settings not hiding the inbuild report button on classic outlook for windows in coming weeks

thanks for bearing with us.

Answer 5

Hi all,

I checked with the Outlook Team and this issue is a bug. Sorry for the confusion. The fix will come from the Defender Team. We don't know an ETA yet but I will monitor and report back when I know more.

Bug: The Microsoft built-in Report button is still available in Classic Outlook even when “Use a non-Microsoft add-in button” was set in the User reported settings in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Resources:

Also posted in forum thread: New Report button in Outlook 2407 - How do i remove it? - Microsoft Community

MC841229
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 371388.
Learn more

• Report phishing and suspicious emails in Outlook for admins - Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Microsoft Learn
• User reported settings - Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Microsoft Learn