Category: Exchange Online

Turned-Off Basic Authentication – All Protocols

We are making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants. You can always read the latest information about our plans to turn off Basic Authentication here .

Today we turned off Basic Authentication for POP3, IMAP4, Remote PowerShell, Exchange Web Services, Offline Address Book, MAPI, RPC, SMTP AUTH and Exchange ActiveSync protocol in your tenant. Based on our telemetry, no-one is currently using Basic Authentication with those protocols in your tenant and so we expect there to be no impact to you.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 13, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

EOP: Anti-Malware policy – Quarantine notifications for recipient

We will be retiring the recipient and sender notification configuration in the UI from anti-malware policies starting in March 2022. Instead, we recommend using quarantine policies, which allow administrators to configure and deliver notifications to recipients.

Key points:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 10, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Send As Group by Default

Microsoft 365 Groups in Outlook currently supports “Send As” functionality which enables group members to Send As a group (“From” address has group id) rather than as an individual. Group members should have this permission configured for the specific Groups by admins to make use of Send As capability. For the groups where user has Send As permissions enabled, user has the option to pick the groups account in the “From” address. Today, by default, the email loads up with individual email id in the From field when user compose, reply, reply all and forward messaged form group mailbox.

With this change, for users having the “Send As” permission for specific Microsoft 365 groups, when they compose, reply, reply all and forward mail from Groups mailbox then the default “From” address populated would be Group id instead of their individual id. This change will affect only when users are inside a group mailbox where they have Send As permissions. There will be no changes in behaviors in the personal/individual mailbox.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 8, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

User experience update for Explorer and Real-Time Detections: Default All Email view and more updates

We are updating the user experience for Explorer and Real time detections, to improve the hunting experience and workflows, as well as align with modern accessibility standards . These are experience updates and do not involve major functional changes for core experiences like filtering, export and saving queries.

NOTE: For a short while, as we roll out updates, you will be able to toggle between the old experience and new experience. Note that toggling would impact only your session and does not impact anybody else within your tenant.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 3, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Anti-malware policy : Common attachment filter : Additional file types block by default

The ‘Common attachment filter’ option in the ‘Anti-malware’ policy helps the Administrator configure the file types (based on file extension) which need to be blocked in the emails. This block action is applied anytime the file type of any attachment in the email matches this configurated file type list.

The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are selected, to be blocked, by default. Administrator can make changes to this selection by selecting more file types or making changes to existing file types. If the Administrator chooses to extend this behavior to more file types, then this is possible using PowerShell option.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 17, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Classic Exchange Admin Center (EAC) Retirement Announcement

In MC252053 (April 2021), we announced the general availability of the new Exchange admin center (EAC). The new EAC offers a faster, more secure, and more intelligent modern admin experience than the classic EAC and is helping admins work more efficiently. With the new EAC capable of assuming this responsibility and more, today we are at the next stage of our journey, and we are announcing the retirement of the classic EAC that will be fully retired on September 1, 2022.

This will be carried out in phases as we move forward. The initial phase will be moving the features under Protection to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 17, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Insights in Microsoft 365 to become part of Microsoft Viva

In the coming months, personal productivity and wellbeing insights that are currently available to users via the daily briefing email, MyAnalytics digest email, and Insights Outlook add-in will be updated to reflect the Microsoft Viva brand. Microsoft Viva is a new employee experience platform that empowers people and teams to be their best from anywhere. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced in the flow of work through Microsoft Teams and Outlook, Microsoft Viva brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85559

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 17, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Update to Mail Flow status summary report

We are bringing an updated view the the Mail Flow status summary report. we will be merging the Funnel view and the Tech view into one consolidated view called the “Mail flow” view.

We believe that with the new view it will be easier for Admins to visualize the flow of emails through our filtering system.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 15, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Upcoming API Retirements in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online

Today we are announcing the deprecation of the 25 least used APIs of EWS for Exchange Online (as determined by the call volume into the service).

We are retiring these APIs to begin the process of reducing the surface area of the EWS protocol for maintenance and security purposes. After the retirement, support will end for these APIs.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Scheduler Recurring Meetings

Ask your virtual assistant to schedule dynamic recurring meetings using natural language.

Right within Outlook, customers will be able to email their virtual assistant and request to schedule meetings at a frequency of their choosing.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 3, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

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