Safe Links

Microsoft Safe Links protects you from malicious links sent to your ÃÛÌÒ½´email accounts, as well as links included in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office desktop, mobile, and web applications where you are signed in with your ÃÛÌÒ½´NetID.

About Safe Links

Safe Links checks links in emails both as they arrive in your inbox and when you click on a link. If a website is compromised after you receive an email but before you visit it, you gain an extra level of safety.

With this change, you may notice the following:

  • In Outlook for Windows, when you mouse over a link, you will see a the URL followed by a notice to "Click or tap to follow link."
  • In alternative email clients, when you mouse over a link, you may see a different URL that starts with https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?…  in the mouse-over tip normally displayed.  
  • If you click on a link for a website that might not be safe, the page will be blocked from loading, and you will receive a warning that "This website is classified as malicious."

Check a Safe Link

Use this  to a plain URL.

Unblock a URL

If you believe a legitimate link is being blocked, please submit a Help Request to the IT Help Desk at help@smu.edu with a copy of the link.