Exchange Online

Exchange Online Connectors, Pay as you Go with Syntex, Viva Sales and new Teams experiences rolling out: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E22

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

On the show this week, find out what's happening with recent changes to Exchange Online that might cause a delay if you're setting up a fresh Hybrid environment; plus security recommendations for your on-premises Exchange environment. If you're getting into Viva Sales, we discuss what the new OpenAI GPT add-in does. Creepy or useful - you decide! Plus Microsoft Syntex's PAYG model goes live and Teams gets user experience changes that your users will certainly notice.

• Podcasts

March 3, 2023

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Why User Submissions of Suspicious Email Delivered to Exchange Online are so Valuable

• Post author:By Damian Scoles

User Submissions is a valuable Microsoft 365 feature that helps add an extra layer of defense in your organization. In this article, Damian Scoles discusses the importance of User Submissions and how to set up your configuration.

• Exchange Online

January 31, 2023

What We Can Learn from the Rackspace Breach

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

In early December 2022, Rackspace had a major breach in their exchange environment that led to customers' mail data being stolen. This article explains what happened and what can be learned from this incident.

• Exchange Server

January 19, 2023

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Using Advanced Message Tracking to identify Junk-Mail and Spoof Messages

• Post author:By Siegfried Jagott

This article reviews using advanced message tracking to identify Junk-Mail and Spoof Messages through tools like Exchange Message Trace, Threat Explorer, Message Header Analyzer, and Advanced Hunting.

• Blog

January 17, 2023

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Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Domain Transfers: Strategy Phase

• Post author:By Lenny Yu and Richard Dean

Join us as we continue the Exchange Online Domain Transfers series, focusing on the strategy phase of a Microsoft 365 domain move project.

• Exchange Online

January 12, 2023

Using Managed Identities with RBAC for Applications

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

RBAC for Applications is a new method to secure Azure AD app access to Exchange Online mailboxes. In this article, we explain how to use Managed Identities in Azure Automation with RBAC for Applications making sure that scripts can only access selected mailboxes.

• Exchange Online

January 9, 2023

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Security Researchers Can Do Better When Discussing Microsoft 365 Flaws

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Security researchers love to report software vulnerabilities that they find. That's their role and it's a valuable contribution to the technical community. However, some of the reports about Microsoft 365 flaws are over-hyped and under-considered, like a recent example covering the risk of phishing in the Exchange Online Direct Send feature.

• Exchange Online

December 19, 2022

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Microsoft Launches Role-Based Access Control for Applications

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft has released the public preview of RBAC for Applications. The new mechanism allows tenants to control the access Azure AD apps have to mailboxes at a granular level. RBAC for Applications will replace application access policies.

• Entra ID

December 7, 2022

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Practical Graph: Report Meeting Room Statistics with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

This article explains how to use the Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell to extract meeting data from the calendars of room mailboxes to generate statistics about the usage of the rooms. Only confirmed meetings are included in the data.

• Exchange Online

December 5, 2022

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Notes from the Field: Upgrading to Exchange 2019

• Post author:By Siegfried Jagott

Even though Exchange migrations are becoming easier, there are still some things to remember when you plan and perform an upgrade to Exchange 2019. Check out this article for some practical advice on upgrading to Exchange 2019.

• Blog

December 1, 2022

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Comparing Outlook Groups to Shared Mailboxes (2022 Edition)

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Outlook groups and shared mailboxes both help small teams work with shared email. The decision as to which to use depends on the exact needs the team has. Microsoft has given Outlook groups some useful enhancements recently, but shared mailboxes are still the most email-friendly choice.

• Exchange Online

November 21, 2022

Microsoft Turns Off Basic Authentication for Autodiscover

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Now that they've disabled basic authentication for email connection protocols, Microsoft is doing the same for the Autodiscover service. This makes sense. There's no point in allowing basic authentication for Autodiscover when clients can't use basic authentication to connect. Microsoft will therefore turn off basic authentication for Autodiscover as it removes basic authentication for protocols like POP3, EAS, IMAP4, EWS, and MAPI.

• Exchange Online

November 18, 2022