When the move to the cloud, customers had on-premises footprint with especially messaging systems – such as Exchange Server, which leaded to implement Exchange hybrid configuration with directory synchronization. Years later, there is still need to maintain a low level Exchange on-premises footprint to manage remote mailboxes. Even if Microsoft has made so progress by […]
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You may have missed the announcement earlier in April (Released: April 2025 Exchange Server Hotfix Updates | Microsoft Community Hub) but Exchange Hybrid configuration is transitioning to a dedicated Exchange Hybrid app in Entra instead of using Exchange Web Services (EWS). It is important to start transitioning now as starting August 19th 2025, Microsoft is
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As you are probably aware, Microsoft has announced the blocking of Exchange Web Services (EWS) on Exchange Online (see Retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online | Microsoft Community Hub) in October 2026. While many organization still rely on EWS for some activities, it is quite difficult to identify the use of EWS across
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This functionality is only available on Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and new Windows Outlook client. You can now set a setting to automatically decline conflicting request meetings. From time to time, you may receive request meetings which are conflicting with events already in your calendar; most of the time
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If you use Exchange (either on-premises or online), you are probably already using the Online Archive (also known as In-Place Archive) which is a ‘separated/hidden’ mailbox storage to help reduce the size of your mailbox (see Manage email storage with online archive mailboxes – Microsoft Support). Well, while access to the Online Archive has been
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As announced in 2023, Office 365 services are moving under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). Since then, quite few services have been already moved under the cloud.microsoft domain (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info), Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new
If you are using Outlook on the Web (aka OWA or Outlook Web Access), you probably noticed when you could start/continue a Teams chat using the chat button available top right of OWA. But it is launching another page to use Teams on the web, making you leaving OWA. Well, good news as now you
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There is always time when you have to decline meeting request. When declining meeting request, the corresponding entry in your calendar is off course deleted. The problem is when there is changes which make you want to change your answer but because the meeting has been deleted, it is no longer in your calendar and
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It is not always easy to schedule meeting with people on different time zone as you can’t easily identify their local time or even know if they are on a different time zone. Well, good news as now you will get notified when meeting participants are on a different time zone and then using the
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With hybrid work increasing, you can now define your work hours location using Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web). To do so, connect to your mailbox using OWA (https://outlook.office.com/) to access the Outlook Settings from the gear menu Then access the Calendar\Work hours and location blade You can add up to 3 different
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