New Report button in Outlook 2407 - How do i remove it?

Hey David,

The long-term plan is to have consistent end user reporting in outlook across all clients (including support for shared and delegate mailboxes) using in-build report button. It is today available across Outlook for web, new outlook for windows, classic outlook for windows, outlook for mac. Android and iOS should ship soon - Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365

Once this report button is available consistently across all outlook clients with shared and delegate support, we will take the long path (years) to deprecate the report message and report phish add-in.

At the moment all three - report message, report phish and the inbuild button are available and they are like doors to the same house. So, whatever the end user uses the experience for the admin will be same as they call the same API internally which follow your user reported settings.

please let me know if you need more clarity or have any more questions.

Hi Dhairyya,

Can you help us or point us to a resource that can help explain best practices for end user reporting? It's become a bit confusing so guidance from Microsoft would be helpful.

Long ago, we deployed the "Report Message" add-in across the entire tenant. We understand the importance of reporting messages after attending many sessions with the Exchange and email security teams. Users are trained on how to report messages and understand that it not only helps the company, but it can also help other companies as well as Microsoft. We have been quite happy with their response as even mobile outlook users know how to report phishing emails.

Then within the last couple of months, we started to see the red outlined "Report" button show up on ribbons. This triggered calls from users, but we couldn't tell them why. We experimented with removing the Report Message add-in for a group of users so they would have just one report button. However, removing the add-in removed the ability for Outlook mobile users to report messages. We use Defender for Business on all endpoints including mobile.

We don't use any third-party services like KnowBe4 and rely on the excellent security stack from Microsoft. Most users continue to use Outlook classic, but a handful use OWA. Every mobile user uses Outlook mobile.

It seems a bit confusing to have two reporting methods, which is why we are looking for guidance.

Thanks very much.

-david

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.

I am posting an Outlook Known Issue article which will be published on Monday.

Is there a location to monitor the progress on the bug fix?