In this blog, Sean Mcavinue reviews an update to his original Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Assessment, which is designed to gather key data to consider during the migration planning process.
Microsoft has announced that Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) will appear in summer 2025. You'll be able to do an inplace upgrade from Exchange Server 2019 CU15 or a "legacy upgrade" (hardware switchover) for other versions. The initial version of Exchange Server SE is unexciting, perhaps deliberately so. It's all about getting customers to transition to the subscription model.
Microsoft has been forced to introduce restricted SharePoint search to allow customers to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 projects without worrying that Copilot will find and reuse information from across the entire tenant. It's a sad legacy of previous Microsoft collaboration strategies, notably the decision to allow users to create groups without hindrance.
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.
SharePoint Translation is a SharePoint Premium service that can translate the content of Office documents and PDF files to the languages supported by the Microsoft Translator service. Be careful about the costs, which can be heavy if you process large documents.
It can be difficult to decide who should get expensive Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. This article describes how to use PowerShell to extract and analyze Microsoft 365 usage reports to help make the decision. It's always best to make decisions based on data rather than emotions!
In this blog, Jaap Wesselius dives deep into TLS and explains what Extended Protection is, how it works in IIS, and how to configure extended protection for Exchange Server.
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.