Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aby John

Jason Fergus Moore

Krishna C Vitaldevara

Ryan M Burkhardt

Luke Abrams

Ashutosh Tewari

Steven Kafka

Samuel Terrence Trim

Yuxiang Xu

Gandhimathi Vaithilingam

Aaron J Moreau-Cook

A list of electronic mail (e-mail) accounts is extracted from an electronic mail system. A list of electronic mail accounts, with forwarding enabled, are identified as a set of collection accounts. A dropbox account is identified, from the collection accounts, as a destination e-mail account for the forwarded collection accounts. The collection accounts that forward to the dropbox account that has in excess of a threshold number of collection accounts forwarding to it, are identified as malicious e-mail collection accounts and are forwarded to a resolution system, for resolution.

Identifying user behavior in a distributed computing system

In embodiments of global email identity preferences, a default outgoing email address that is designated by a user is maintained at an email server. The user can also be associated with multiple email addresses that are correlated at the email server. When an outgoing email is received at the email server for delivery to a designated recipient, the outgoing email can be identified as being from one of the multiple email addresses that are associated with the user. A determination is made as to whether to update the outgoing email with the default outgoing email address that is associated with the user, such as if the outgoing email is received from an email client that does not allow user selection of a default client email address. The outgoing email is then routed to the designated recipient for display as being from the default outgoing email address.

Global email identity preferences

In one embodiment, a cloud service interfaceor a device interfacemay filter messages in a message synchronization between a message service account and a cloud service account. A cloud service interfaceor a device interfacemay associate a message service accounton a user messaging devicewith a cloud service account. The cloud service interfaceor a device interfacemay execute a message synchronization between the cloud service accountand the message service account. The cloud service interfaceor a device interfacemay apply a message filter to the message synchronization.

Safety protocols for messaging service-enabled cloud services

Techniques involving unified messaging and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe receiving a message at a web service from a messaging client and identifying a communication device that includes telephone functionality and is configured to format the message as a short messaging service (SMS) message. The SMS message may be identified by a phone number associated with the communication device. The message may then be sent to the communication device for automatic transmission of the SMS message by the communication device over a phone network.

Techniques for unified messaging

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