In October, Microsoft will begin retiring Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online with the goal of completely deprecating them by September 2023. CARs will be replaced with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) for Azure Active Directory. Note Don’t wait, you want to get ahead of the curve on CAE as it’ll help you shutting down …
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Updated December 7, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. A common request from Exchange Online admins is for the ability to customize the message expiration timeout interval for messages sent by users in their organization. When a message in Exchange Online can’t be delivered or sent due to …
The new Outlook for Windows desktop client is available to customers in the Office Insiders Beta Channel. We will continue to roll out the option to try this preview client to Office Insiders in Current Channel (Preview) starting in early October to provide the best emailing experience for your employees. If you do not want …
In less than one month, Microsoft will turn off basic authentication, like usernames and passwords over unencrypted channels, for Exchange Online service. As of October 1, 2022, users will be required to employ token-based authentication (to access their accounts.). Other cloud providers are making similar changes: Google has already moved 150 million users to two-factor …
Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located, depending on how you use Outlook. For all users – The formatting bar will be relocated to the top of the message compose window, similar to the common “ribbon” you see in other Microsoft apps. For all users – When composing a new …
In August, Microsoft announced that beginning October 1, 2022, Microsoft will begin to permanently disable Basic Authentication in all tenants, regardless of usage, except for SMTP Auth. To learn more about the deprecation of Basic Authentication, read the announcement at Exchange Team Blog > Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – September 2021 Update.
In Safe Attachments policies, ‘Replace’ is one of the actions that can be applied to messages that are found to contain malware. This action delivers only the message body without any of the original attachments. A replacement text attachment is added to the message to notify that the attachments were removed due to malware detection.
In Safe Attachments policies, the option Enable redirect forwards messages with detected attachments to the specified admin email address as an email attachment if the section is Block, Monitor, or Replace. The change being introduced is to support Enable redirect only for the Monitor action. Enable redirect will no longer support the Replace or Block …
We will be retiring Scheduler for Microsoft 365 on September 1, 2023. We may bundle some of these features with another offering in the future and will communicate via Message center as we move forward. Note: If your organization is not using Scheduler for Microsoft 365 you can safely disregard this message.
One month from today, we’re going to start to turn off basic authentication for specific protocols in Exchange Online.
Updated October 27, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With this release, users will have the ability to create folders and organize content inside Microsoft 365 Groups mailbox using Outlook on the web. Groups users will be able to create folders inside the Groups section in the Outlook …
To simplify the customer experience for managing Exchange account settings and avoiding duplication, we are removing the ‘Archive’ tab of the Data Lifecycle Management solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. You will continue to be able to perform this operation from the Exchange Admin Center.
We are strengthening Spoofing protection within Exchange online protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Anti-Spam security policy. It will provide a way to secure your organization against spoofing attacks that may otherwise occur by allowing certain domains and senders. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93436. Currently, EOP and MDO tenant …
Outlook mobile (iOS and Android) will allow users to manually select their S/MIME signing /encryption certificates if there is more than one valid certificate available and set them as active for signing and encryption.
Updated November 7, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Updated August 30, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Cross Profile Calendar Sync for Outlook enables users with Android Work Profile configured to see a complete view of all account calendars in …