Setting group policy to enable automatic picture download

Unblock Picture Downloads For All Messages: 

Using Exchange mail flow rules to allow specific senders

To ensure that our emails are allowed into your organisation the mail flow rule should match the following.

The action on the rule must follow this pattern:

1. Set the spam confidence level (SCL) to -1 (bypass spam filtering).

2. Add an X-Header to say what the rule does. In the example below, you can add a simple header X-ETR: Bypass spam filtering for authenticated sender 'contoso.com'. If you have more than one domain in this rule, you can change the header text as appropriate. When a message skips filtering due to a mail flow rule, it stamps SFV:SKN in the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header (if it's on an IP Allow list, it also stamps IPV:CAL). This will assist with troubleshooting.

The domains that you need to add will vary depending on the templates you're using. If you do not have the full list of domains, please request these from us. 

Outlook 2007:

Use the following procedure to configure Junk E-mail Filter options in Outlook 2007. The Outlook template and other ADM files can be downloaded from 2007 Office System Administrative Templates (ADM) on the Microsoft Download Center.

There are two group policy settings that should be made to enable this.

Configuration for automatic picture download behaviour in Outlook 2007:

1. In Group Policy, load the Office Outlook 2007 template (Outlk12.adm).
2. Under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office Outlook 2007\Tools | Options\Security, click Automatic Picture Download Settings.
3. Double-click Include Intranet in Safe Zones for Automatic Picture Download
4. Click Enabled.
5. Click OK.

Configure Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter settings in Group Policy:

1. Create a text file “safedomains.txt” available on your network, containing a list of all valid email domains used within your organization. Each domain should be on it’s own line in the format “@yourdomain.com” (separated by carriage returns).
2. In Group Policy, load the Office Outlook 2007 template (Outlk12.adm) and go to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office Outlook 2007\Tools | Options…\Preferences\Junk E-mail
3. Double-click Specify path to Safe Senders list, and then specify the path to the domains list you created in step 1.
4. If appropriate, select Trust E-mail from Contacts, and click Enabled.
5. If appropriate, select Add e-mail recipients to users’ Safe Senders Lists, and click Enabled.
6. Click OK.