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It's time to check recipient filters for dynamic distribution groups to ensure that you don't have any wildcard prefixes used with the -eq operator to find recipients based on their email addresses. A November 30 update will stop this kind of recipient filter working, and might have a knock-on effect on other processes.
Three years ago, we described how to create organizational contacts in user mailboxes with Graph API requests. In this iteration, we read the contacts from a Microsoft list and use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to update user mailboxes. The techniques explained in the article can be used in many scenarios.
Microsoft released the initial implementation of a cloud-based message recall feature last year. Now they're back with a set of enhancements to take the rough edges off, like explaining to users why messages disappear from the inbox and enabling support for external services like email hygiene and mail autosignature providers.
If you're looking for an email service capable of handling large volumes of email to external recipients, Microsoft will propose Email Communication Services (ECS). Built on top of Exchange Online, ECS shares some characteristics with the High Volume Email (HVE) solution. After testing both, HVE is probably a better solution if you have a Microsoft 365 tenant.
Teams meeting transcripts can significantly enhance meeting productivity and accessibility, but their management involves careful consideration of data protection, privacy, and storage concerns. This article provides an overview of how to manage Teams meeting transcripts effectively, covering key topics such as storage changes, privacy controls, and strategies to ensure compliance while maximizing the benefits of transcription in your organization.
The Exchange Online High-Volume Email (HVE) solution handles up to 100,000 internal messages and 2,000 external messages daily. It's intended to replace on-premises Exchange servers that organizations keep just to service email submission from devices and applications. In this review of the preview version, we discovered that almost everything works just fine, if you keep within the throttling limits.
Email is a primary target for breaches, making it crucial to have a strong line of defense for your email security. In this blog, we go over some Email Protection basics to help keep your organization safe.
In this article, Jaap Wesselius explains the available options for SMTP relay when moving to Exchange Online.
A reader asked if it is possible to generate room mailbox weekly schedules that can be sent to distribution lists. This article explains how to accomplish the task using PowerShell and Graph API requests. Once you can get at the data, you can do anything!
On February 20, Microsoft announced their intention to remove Application Impersonation for EWS from Exchange Online. If you have existing management role assignments, this article explains how to make the transition to RBAC-based assignments.
On the show this week, we're joined by fellow Microsoft MVP and long-term PowerShell, Exchange and Microsoft 365 expert, Michel De Rooij to discuss PowerShell, GitHub Copilot, Teams, and more!
Anyone who learned PowerShell to manage Exchange has probably written a script to report Exchange mailbox statistics, which means that many scripts have been written since 2006. This article describes a new take on the topic that produces a nice HTML report and two lists that can be used for other reporting.