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How to pause throttling and blocking of out-of-date on-premises Exchange Servers

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Dec 12, 2023
Background In the blog post published March 2023, Throttling and Blocking Email from Persistently Vulnerable Exchange Servers to Exchange Online, we explained that for security reasons, messages se...
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Jan 02, 2024

AlexZaslavsky65 >>I expected the 90 days balance to be re-set as of January 1st 2024, but it still shows only 50 days available. 

You have the 90 days granted and available to use, but there was an EAC change freeze in December so our UI update to account for the changeover didn't get deployed yet, so unfortunately it still shows (and restricts based on) the previous 2023 balance. Two options to consider:

  1. Use the PowerShell cmdlet to pause for the full 90 days: 
    New-TenantExemptionInfo -BlockingScenario UnpatchedOnPremServer -NumberOfDays 90
    OR
  2. Use the UI now to pause for 50 days. By mid-January we expect the UI update to be deployed and then you could come back in and use the UI again to extend your pause for another 40 days.