By Peter Pawlak [bio]
Posted: Jan. 22, 2007

The following is an illustration accompanying an article published by Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm focused exclusively on Microsoft strategy & technology. More samples of our content, as well as a list of upcoming articles and reports are also available.

This illustration shows how the Exchange 2007 Transport Rule Wizard can be used to set up an "ethical wall" that blocks e-mail between stock analysts and stock traders in the same organization. In this example, the Transport Rule condition applies to all messages between the Stock Analysts and Stock Traders groups in Active Directory. The action is set to return a message to the sender that includes a link to the company's policy on such communications.