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Easily block your employee's access to their personal Outlook accounts using miniOrange's solution. Have granular control over the exact email accounts accessible to users inside your infrastructure.

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Personal Outlook Block



Why Blocking a Personal Outlook account in the Workplace is Essential?

Personal Outlook Account Blocking is a network feature that is dependent on the needs of each company. It can only be managed by the proxy server or proxy firewall. Only through a corporate network can internet traffic go to a specific server. As a network administrator you do not want your users or employees to use their personal outlook account. The reason behind this is to make sure your network is not having any weak link in the security. As organizations have a lot of critical information which they do not want to share outside the organization and they want to keep track of every data point being shared from the office on-premise or from the organization computers. So, personal outlook account blocking allows network administrators to block or restrict the user's access to personal outlook within the company and report administrators, reporting managers, and HR to violations of personal outlook block policy.



What are the challenges?


  Currently, when Microsoft Apps is established for an organisation, users are free to utilise personal outlook for personal usage.


  This causes a lot of concern for businesses since it makes it difficult to execute company policy regarding using personal outlook at work without spending a lot of money on a firewall.


  This is a significant roadblock for small to medium businesses and occasionally keeps the company from going outlook apps.


  Organizations subject to regulations like the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the UK's Financial Services Authority are reluctant to switch to Microsoft Apps because they must demonstrate that sensitive information cannot be shared between business and personal microsoft apps accounts.





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What is Forward Proxy?

A forward proxy (commonly referred to as a proxy) acts as a broker that carries out a task on behalf of another entity, as the name suggests. A proxy like this acts specifically as an intermediate between a user device (or user devices) and the internet. Instead of establishing a direct connection with a web destination, a device connects to the proxy, which then establishes a connection with the location on its behalf. The proxy then assesses outbound requests and responds to them before passing them to the external destination. When a destination returns the communication, it transmits it to the proxy, which examines it, takes any necessary action, and then passes it to the originating device if necessary.





How personal outlook account access is restricted?


By adding a firewall in your network

If you already have one you can make the changes in request going to microsoft apps services. This is a reliable option but this requires too much changes in the infrastructure if you do not have the firewall. Also a firewall is a very expensive option, if you want to make any changes in your existing firewall it costs a lot of money.


By using an extension

It restricts personal outlook login. This modifies the request at the time of sending and only allows if someone is trying to login with a personal outlook address. This solution is specific to the browser and only works in the browser which has the extension installed. The user has enough access to remove the extension so if you are planning to enforce this policy users can easily bypass it.


By using a web proxy

Web proxy basically sends all your requests to a proxy server which checks and validates your requests and if the request is legitimate then it forwards your request to the requested server. miniOrange does support this solution and this allows network administrators to do a lot more than blocking personal outlook access.






Block personal outlook accounts

Frequently Asked Questions


Why to block/restrict personal Gmail account access?

As a network administrator you do not want your users or employees to use their personal hotmail account. The reason behind this is to make sure your network is not having any weak link in the security. As organizations have a lot of critical information which they do not want to share outside the organization and they want to keep track of every information being shared from the office on-premise or from the organization computers. Click here to learn more.

Why to block/restrict personal Hotmail account access?

You want your employees or users to use only the account which is given to them by the administrator. This can be achieved with miniOrange personal hotmail blocking solution. You can block the access to personal hotmail services as per your requirement and infrastructure. Click here to learn more.




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