Introduction
There may come a day when you might need to remove Hoxhunt service partially or completely in your organization. Please use this article as a short checklist.
Remove Hoxhunt add-in
Remove whitelisting and mail flow rules
Optional - Remove Receive Connector
Optional – Removing Hoxhunt SSO
Remove Hoxhunt add-in
Removing add-in depends on the way Hoxhunt add-in has been deployed to users. Please follow instructions appropriate to you:
Add-in was distributed via SCCM or similar system from an MSI package
- Please uninstall Hoxhunt add-in by following your internal guides on SCCM.
Add-in was distributed via Exchange Admin Center (on-premise Exchange)
- Log in to Exchange Admin Center and navigate to organization > apps
- Select Hoxhunt add-in from the list and click Remove (trash can).
The add-in will be removed from all users automatically. This may take several hours so please be patient.
Add-in was distributed via O365 Centralized Deployment (Microsoft 365 Admin Center)
- Log in to Microsoft 365 Admin Center and navigate to Services > Add-ins
- Click Hoxhunt add-in in the list. A side pane opens with add-in details.
- Click Remove add-in at the bottom of the side pane.
The add-in will be removed from all users automatically. This may take several hours so please be patient.
Remove whitelisting and mail flow rules
(applies to: all Exchange servers, gateways and security filters)
Please remove any Hoxhunt-related whitelisting and mail flow rules.
- Log in to Exchange Admin Center.
- Navigate to protection > connection filter. Remove the following IP addresses from IP Allow list: 139.12.94 and 35.156.0.138
- Navigate to mail flow > rules. Remove any rules related to Hoxhunt.
IMPORTANT: If you have additional systems on your message path, please make sure you remove Hoxhunt-related bypass rules in those systems as well. This includes possible whitelisting of Hoxhunt's sender domains and fail URLs for Hoxhunt training purposes. Please contact us if in doubt.
IMPORTANT: You may have configured Hoxhunt differently as described here and Hoxhunt's implementation documentation. Please take extra care and check your internal technical documentation regarding Hoxhunt.
Optional - Remove Receive Connector
Your organization may have implemented a Partner Receive Connector in order to facilitate training email delivery from Hoxhunt to your employees.
- Log in to Exchange Admin Center.
- Navigate to mail flow > connectors. Remove the connector related to Hoxhunt.
Optional – Removing Hoxhunt SSO
Removing SSO depends on the way Hoxhunt SSO was implemented. These instructions refer to how to Azure AD SSO App and AD FS SSO can be removed.
Azure AD SSO
- Log in to the Azure Portal with your credentials. Go to Azure Active Directory.
- Click Enterprise Applications.
- Click Hoxhunt SSO App in the list.
- Navigate to Properties and click Delete (trash can).
AD FS SSO
- Log in to AD FS 2.0 Console.
- Navigate to Trusted Relationships > Relying Party Trusts.
- Select Hoxhunt and click Delete.