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Controlling Teams Transcripts

• Post author:By Karin Skapski

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.

• Microsoft 365

August 5, 2024

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Exchange Online’s New High Volume Email (HVE) Solution

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

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.

• Exchange Online

July 30, 2024

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TEC Tips: Email Protection Basics

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

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.

• Security

July 2, 2024

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Practical Exchange: Understanding SMTP Relay in Exchange Online

• Post author:By Jaap Wesselius

In this article, Jaap Wesselius explains the available options for SMTP relay when moving to Exchange Online.

• Exchange Online

June 10, 2024

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Practical Graph: Reporting Room Mailbox Weekly Schedules

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

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!

• Exchange Online

May 13, 2024

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Migrate from EWS Application Access Policy to RBAC for Applications

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

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.

• Exchange Online

April 24, 2024

PowerShell, Teams, and Exchange News with Special Guest MVP Michel De Rooij: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E17

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

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!

• Exchange Online

April 11, 2024

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A New Take on The Classic Exchange Mailbox Statistics PowerShell Script

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

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.

• Exchange Online

March 26, 2024

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Microsoft Takes Steps to Offset Midnight Blizzard Damage

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

The fallout from the Midnight Blizzard attack against Microsoft continues as Microsoft takes action to harden the security of its own and customer tenants. One step is to retire the EWS Application Impersonation role. This will happen in February 2025 ahead of the retirement of Exchange Web Services in October 2026.

• Entra ID

March 11, 2024

Exchange Online Changes, Copilot + Viva plus Identity Migration with Becky Cross: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E14

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Rich are joined by Becky Cross to discuss Hybrid Identity Migration, new Exchange On-Premises cumulative updates, Azure OpenAI features, and more!

• Active Directory

March 1, 2024

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Stopping Spam Sent from Bad Microsoft 365 Domains

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Anecdotal evidence is that some spam originates from onmicrosoft.com domains. These are the domains used by Microsoft 365 tenants and the spam indicates that attackers sign up for 'disposable' tenants to send their malware. This article describes what onmicrosoft.com domains are and how to use a mail flow rule to control their traffic.

• Exchange Online

February 26, 2024

Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Microsoft 365 Backup

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

If you’re interested in protecting your SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, or Exchange Online data, it is useful to understand how Microsoft 365 Backup works and what the software can and cannot do. In this article, Paul Robichaux walks through how to set up and test the preview version of Microsoft 365 Backup.

• Microsoft 365

February 20, 2024