Exchange Online

Exchange Online – You can now use ‘Plus Address’

If you have been using a Gmail account, you may be already aware about the ‘plus address’ (or ‘plus addressing’) which allows you to dynamically create a unique email address, in addition of the ‘fixed’ ones. Well, you can now enable this ‘plus addressing’ functionality in Exchange Online. To do so, you need to use […]

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Exchange Online – You can now use a configuration analyzer to review your EOP configuration

As you know, Exchange Online Protection (EOP) plays an important role in your mail hygiene posture by blocking unsolicited or phishing emails and malware. You may (or should) already have set policies for EOP. Well, you can now use a Configuration Analyzer to have a review of your configuration and adjust based on Microsoft recommendations.

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Exchange / Skype for Business – The Remote Connectivity analyzer now supports modern authentication

By know, you should already know the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool (https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/) used to help investigating connectivity issue to Exchange (on-premises or online), Skype for Business/Lync, mail flow…. Well, with the hard push from Microsoft to move away from ‘legacy’ authentication method (aka basic authentication) to modern authentication, the Remote Connectivity Analyzer has been updated

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Exchange Online – You will be able to exclude voicemail and missed call notification from journaling

If you are using Exchange Online and have enabled journaling, you will be able to exclude voicemail and missed call notification from being journaled. This capability will be rolled out in early November but if you are using journaling and want to exclude such notifications you can already run the below PowerShell command using Exchange

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Exchange Online – Outlook Web Access now also redirect to on-premises

If you work with Exchange and Exchange Online in hybrid mode, you already know that when a mailbox is moved to Exchange Online, the on-premises Exchange redirect/notify the user to access Exchange Online Outlook Web Access URL when using the ‘old’/on-premises OWA URL. Well, now Exchange Online can do the same for mailboxes still on

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Office 365 – Manage modern authentication for Exchange Online from the administration portal

As you know Microsoft has been recommending to turn off basic authentication protocols for some time now. Well, until now you had to manage this by implementing an Azure AD Conditional Access policy or by implementing an authentication policies for Exchange Online. Well, you can now manage basic authentication access for Exchange Online directly from

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Exchange Online – A new resource type is being made available: Workspace

You already know that Exchange has resource booking capabilities (such as room or equipment). Well a new resource type is being made available called Workspace. The idea of Workspace is a physical location (like hot desks or rooms) which can be booked for a minimum duration (starting at 3 hours – currently not configurable) and

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Office 365 – Office 2013 clients will no longer be able to access Office 365 services

This is a reminder as this has been announced in September 2019 (https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2017/04/20/office-365-proplus-updates/), Office 2013 clients will no longer be able to access Office 365 services (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business) starting October 13th 2020. If you are still using Office 2013 clients to access Office 365 services you have to plan

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Exchange Online – Use the new Exchange Online PowerShell module v2 with Modern Authentication with your scripts (preview)

As you know, Microsoft is going to retire the basic authentication for Exchange Online PowerShell during the second half of 2021. In preparation of this retirement, a new Exchange Online PowerShell module has been released, known as Exchange Online PowerShell module v2 (see https://t.co/Jg3iTICowv). Well, the next step of this preparation is the introduction of

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