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Exchange Online – You can now shorten meetings at the organization level

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As you may be aware, Outlook clients (for Windows, mobile on iOS and Android or OWA) allow your end-users to shorten a meeting when organizing it. Well, Exchange administrators can now apply the shorten meeting settings at the organization level using Exchange Online PowerShell (use the V2 version available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement/) Connect to your Exchange

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Exchange Online – You can now block distribution list to be in BCC (hidden copy)

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Today we all know the impact and benefits of distribution list. Well, some time senders may want to send email to peoples and/or distribution lists in hidden copy (BCC) to avoid reply to all storm (especially with distribution list). But you, as Exchange administrator, may want to ensure (at least certain) distribution list are always

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Exchange Online – You can now flag external emails in Outlook

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To help increase awareness to end-users to pay more attention on emails they receive, you can now have external emails tag on Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access (OWA); this is not (yet?) available for Outlook client on Windows or Mac. Highlighting emails received from external sender will help you end-user to better identify potential

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Exchange Online – Review your DNS configuration to avoid mail flow failures

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Starting March 22, 2021, Exchange Online (ExO) and Exchange Online Protection (EOP) DNS infrastructure will be updated to enable Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) to allow sending DNS data in larger UDP packet which is required for DNSSEC. To prepare for this change, the ExO team has been already reviewing existing Office 365 tenant to

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

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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

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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 Online – Exchange Online PowerShell module v2 is now available on Linux and MacOS

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Good news for Exchange Online administrators. If you are using a Linux of MacOS device, you can now install the ExO v2 PowerShell module on your device. MacOS versions supported are: Mojave Catalina Big Sur Linux distributions supported are: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 (including ARM64) Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10, 19.10 (via Snap package), 20.04, 20.10 Debian

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

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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

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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

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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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