Office 365

Outlook – You can now set your meeting to be online by default

After providing a setting to make your meeting as online meeting in Outlook Web Access (OWA – aka Outlook on the Web) – see https://t.co/rQ6jUyGgh3 – and on Outlook mobile, you can now do the same with Outlook for Windows. The option is turned on by default; you can manage it by accessing the Outlook […]

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Exchange Online – Enforcing receiving email limit

As you know Exchange Online has some limits in place to ensure performance and stability of the service (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits to know more about). As part of these limits, there is one restricting the number of emails received per hour – set to 3600 emails (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits#receiving-and-sending-limits). Starting April 2021 this limit will be enforce.

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Exchange – Active Directory Right Management Services (AD RMS) is being retired

As you know, Azure Information Protection (AIP) has been available for quite some time with the plan to replace Active Directory Right Management Services (AD RMS). Well, now it is time as integration and support of AD RMS on Exchange Online is being retired by February 28th 2021. If you are still using AD RMS

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Exchange Online – The ‘Move message to Junk Email folder’ option is being retired in EOP

If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and have configured ‘Move message to Junk Email folder’ for high confidence spam and phishing emails you need to be aware this option is being retired. It will be replaced by the Quarantine message setting starting March 2021.

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Exchange Online – Changes on Reply-URL are coming

Microsoft has identified that one of the Reply-URL used by Exchange Online for authentication and authorization is unsafe. As result, the Reply-URL list is going to be updated by end of March 2021. The Reply-URL being removed from the list is ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob. This will impact Exchange Online PowerShell modules earlier than 1.0.1, automation with ModernAuth

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Office 365 – Messages published in Message Center now have tags

As you know, the Message Center is your one stop shop to be aware about what is coming up on Office 365 services. Until then, you only had the category (Stay Informed, Plan for Change, Prevent of Fix Issues…) to help you identify the type of incoming changes. Well, now messages published on Message Center

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Exchange Online – you can now turn on by default the new administration center

As you know, Exchange Online can be managed by either PowerShell or the Exchange Administration Portal (Exchange ECP). Few months ago, Microsoft has introduced an incoming new administration portal (see https://t.co/6KFYzwcqQU). Well, you can now use this new portal by default (you can still access the ‘old’ portal for settings not yet available). I recommend

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Exchange Online – How to control automatic forwarding

As you know, there has been an option for Exchange administrator but also for end user to automatically forward incoming email to another email address – either internal or external – for a very long time. As end user can automatically forward incoming email either by setting a server-side rule or using the option available

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SharePoint Online – Migration manager now allows you to migrate to Teams and individual OneDrive

By now, you may be aware of Migration  Manager the migration tool from Microsoft allowing you to migrate your file shares to SharePoint Online. Well, Migration Manager now allows you to migrate to an individual OneDrive for Business space or a Teams channel if your account is licensed for Teams). To start migrating using Migration

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Office 365 – Important Outlook connectivity update

As you know, connecting to Office 365 service using Office client and in this case Outlook requires to use specific version. As part of it, Outlook client older than the below version will not be able to connect to Office 365 services after November 1st, 2021 Outlook 2013 15.0.4970.9999 and older Outlook 2016 16.0.4599.9999 and

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