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Exchange Online – Administrators can now recover deleted items from a mailbox

Exchange Online administrators can now recover deleted items from a user or shared mailbox. To use this new functionality you need to use the new Exchange Administration portal https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/ and go to the Mailboxes blade Then either select the mailbox you want to recover deleted items and click on the Recover deleted items button Or […]

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Exchange Online – Reply to All mail storm protection is coming

It has been announced few months back during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference and it is now coming to Exchange Online: the Reply to All mail storm protection. We all get annoyed when people is starting to Reply All on message send to distribution list and this become a mail storm (the infamous ‘Me too’

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Exchange Online – Quarantine notification is becoming available for shared mailboxes

As you know, when you are using Exchange Online (and as such Exchange Online Protection) for inbound mail traffic, you receive a quarantine notification when some emails have been put in quarantine. Well, this notification will also be sent to shared mailboxes too. The rolling out is planned for mid-May 2020. This update will allow

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Exchange Online – New support for OAuth authentication for SMTP, IMAP and POP

If you are working with Exchange Online, chances are you have some components in your environment (applications, network devices…) which need to access mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online. Well, until now the only way for most of these components was to use POP/IMAP/SMTP connections; which we all know is not the most secure protocols. Good

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Exchange Online – You can now get Desktop notification from Outlook Web Access

If you use Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and a modern browser (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge) you can now enable Desktop Notification to get notified when emails arrive while you are no longer browsing your mailbox but your browser is still running. To turn it on, logon to your mailbox

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Exchange Online – Hybrid Configuration Wizard Could not convert string to DateTimeOffset error

As you are now aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been recently updated (see https://t.co/p3WYcmBpGD) to reach a new major version(17.xxx) Well, after updating the HCW to the latest version, you may face the following issue when you try to run it to configure or update your Exchange Hybrid Configuration when connecting to

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Exchange – A new major version of the Exchange Hybrid configuration Wizard is now available

As you know by now, you can setup Exchange in hybrid configuration to integrate your Exchange on-premises infrastructure with Exchange Online; this is done using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) which is available for download and provide a wide range of configuration options (from lightweight to complete/classic configuration). Well, good new, the HCW just got

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Exchange Online – New version of the Exchange Online PowerShell (aka v2) is now available

As you know, managing Exchange and Exchange Online can be done from either the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) or with PowerShell modules. In the case of Exchange Online PowerSHell module, there has been already 2 major version; the first one with the initial release of Exchange Online years ago (which did not supported MFA) and

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Exchange Online – Get ready for the retirement of Basic Authentication

In the process of re enforcing security, one of the key is to use robust and secure authentication protocols and methods. With that in mind, get ready for the retirement of the basic authentication in Exchange Online for POP and IMAP. If you use POP and/or IMAP to connect to an Exchange Online mailbox, you

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Outlook Mobile – You can now search for files from Outlook Mobile

This feature has been already available for iOS devices. This now also available in Outlook Mobile for Android devices. When you click the Search button in Outlook Mobile you will now have access to your files (including attachments). When you click on the Files section you have access to a complete and detailed list of

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