TLS 1.2

Exchange Online – New endpoint for SMTP AUTH clients still using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1; act before 2022

If you use Office 365 and Exchange Online, you should already know that support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 has ended in October 2020. While the support of these legacy TLS protocols has ended, this is still in use and available for connection. Starting 2022, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be completely disabled […]

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Office 365 – Updated retirement date for TLS 1.0/1.1

As you may be aware, Microsoft is on the move to deprecate older TLS versions (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) and make the switch to TLS 1.2. It has been announced last year (July 2019), retirement date for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 was initially scheduled for June 2020 but with the unprecedent situation it

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Security – Moving to TLS 1.2 is becoming more urgent…

As you may know, it has been highly recommended for the past few months by Microsoft, Google, Apple and other software vendors to move from TLS 1.0/1..1 to TLS 1.2. Well, this recommendation is becoming more important and you have to urgently ensure you are ready for it as the next version (81) of Google

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Power BI – You need to upgrade to TLS 1.2 your Power BI application

As you may be aware, for the past few months, Microsoft has been deprecating support for weaker TLS version (1.0, 1.1) for many of his products and services. Power BI is the latest one to get support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 being deprecated. As of June 2020, support for these 2 TLS version

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Lync / Skype for Business – Trouble to search external Skype contacts

NOTE this does not apply if you are full Skype for Business Online As Microsoft is hardening his platforms, you may (or your end-users) have issue with Lync or Skype for Business on-premises deployment looking up for external contact (aka public federation and/or Skype consumer directories), as shown in the below screenshot. This is a

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Azure – Ensure your server running your Azure Application Proxy has TLS 1.2 enabled

If you use Azure Application Proxy to publish internal web applications, you need to ensure the server(s) running the Azure App Proxy connector has/have TLS 1.2 enabled. By January 31st, 2019, if this/these server(s) do not have TLS 1.2 enabled you may experience service disruption as the older TLS version (1.0 and 1.1) will be

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