Microsoft Outlook Desktop - Create an Inbox Rule for Microsoft Defender Quarantine emails

The following tutorial describes the steps to create an inbox rule in Outlook for Windows to automatically move Quarantine notification emails to a specific folder. To create an inbox rule on Outlook on the Web, please see Outlook on the web - Creating Inbox Rules.
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Open Outlook and locate a Quarantine notification message in your inbox.

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Right-click the message and click Rules.

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Click Create Rule. 

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Check the box next to From quarantine@messaging.microsoft.com in the first section. This will apply the rule to all Quarantine notification messages.

Select an action in the second section. To move all Quarantine notification messages to a specific folder, check the box next to Move the item to folder and click the Select Folder button.

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Select the desired folder from the list and click OK. 

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Click OK to create the rule.

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All Quarantine notification messages will now be moved to the selected folder automatically and should not appear in your inbox. Click OK to dismiss the notification.

To move all existing Quarantine notification messages to the folder, check the Run this rule now on messages already in the current folder box and click OK.