I worked the MS ticket and they offered the following as a solution and it appears to have worked.
Disclaimer: You should only be editing these policy settings if you understand what they do. Get your email admin involved
ACTION PLAN:
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In the Microsoft Defender portal at https://security.microsoft.com , go to Email & Collaboration > Policies & Rules > Threat policies > Anti-spam in the Policies section. Or, to go directly to the Anti-spam policies page, use Sign in to your account .
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On the Anti-spam policies page, select
Create policy and then select Outbound from the dropdown list to start the new outbound spam policy wizard.
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On the Name your policy page, configure these settings:
- Name: Enter a unique, descriptive name for the policy.
- Description: Enter an optional description for the policy.
When you’re finished on the Name your policy page, select Next.
- On the Users, groups, and domains page, identify the internal senders that the policy applies to (recipient conditions):
- On the Protection settings page, configure the following settings:
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Message limits sections: The settings in this section configure the limits for outbound email messages from Exchange Online mailboxes:
- Set an external message limit: The maximum number of external recipients per hour.
- Set an internal message limit: The maximum number of internal recipients per hour.
- Set a daily message limit: The maximum total number of recipients per day.
A valid value is 0 to 10000. The default value is 0, which means the service defaults are used. For more information, see Sending limits .