Microsoft rolls out its Reply All Storm Protection feature to Office365 worldwide

Microsoft on Sunday announced that it will be rolling out its Reply All Storm Protection feature for Office 365 worldwide.

The feature had been announced back in 2019 at Microsoft’s Microsoft Ignite 2019 event. It is an attempt to stop a storm of e-mails when recipients, part of a large conversation click on ‘reply all’ for emails marked with a huge number of people. The feature is meant to put a temporary reply-all email block in place to prevent a system overload due to a reply all ‘storm.’

“When a ‘reply all mail storm’ happens in your organisation, it can disrupt business continuity and in some cases even throttle the rest of your organisation’s email for a period of time,” Microsoft explained in an official blog post.