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How to exclude signatures on Planner or Teams comments

Payal Arya
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Scenario

You notice that every message or comment in Microsoft Planner or Microsoft Teams gets a signature, making the thread longer than necessary. You wish to exclude signatures on Planner or Teams comments.

Resolution

To exclude signatures for messages being sent using Microsoft Planner or Microsoft Teams, you can add an exception to the Identify messages to send to Exclaimer Cloud mail flow rule in Exchange Online.

To add the exception:

To complete the steps described below, you will need:
Microsoft 365 Global Administrator credentials
  1. Sign in to the Exchange Online admin portal (https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com) as an Administrator.

    The Exchange admin center is displayed.

  2. From the left-hand navigation menu, select Mail flow, then select Rules.

  3. In Rules, edit the Identify messages to send to Exclaimer Cloud rule.

  4. Click add exception.



  5. Select A message header... Includes any of these words.

  6. Specify the header name:
    X-MS-Exchange-UnifiedGroup-SubmittedViaGroupAddress

  7. Specify the following text:
    /o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group

  8. Click OK.

    Once the exception is added, the transport rule will look something like this: 

  9. Click Save