Released: January 2022 Exchange Server Security Updates

Hello,

I asked this same question around the Transport queue problem earlier in January.  When will Microsoft change the Exchange Hybrid requirements so this now "routine" emergency security patching for any Exchange server will be reduced if customers can either remove the need for Hybrid or for Microsoft to make the Hybrid server a simple Exchange appliance possibly?

When will there be another supported way to manage Exchange attributes on-premise and a substitute to more easily allow systems/devices to relay off an internal email server?

It is long overdue Microsoft and hoping someone from the Exchange team can comment on the plans to simplify our IT lives so we don't have have to upgrade/patch Exchange hybrid servers every 2 to 6 months to stay in support and stay secure.

thank you,

Larry Heier