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Rob Wildman
Copper Contributor
May 02, 2017

Activesync - Time Restrictions

Our company just migrated to Office 365 within the last week or so.  I have a large number of remote employees whom are hourly.  Due to their locations, most receive their email via their smartphone.  Is there a way that I can restrict activesync so that mail is only delivered their phones during business hours?

 

If this is not possible, does anyone know if I restrict their access hours within AD, if that will disable their O365 account during those times?

 

Rob Wildman

IT Director

Korrect Optical

 

office 365

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  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    MVP
    May 02, 2017

    There's no good solution for this. Access is cached on multiple levels nowadays, even if you disable the account from logging in, the user can still receive/send mail for hours, even days in some cases. You can combine this with the feature we now have available to revoke tokens, but that also has some gotchas. And will force all users to relogin the next time, even if you have re-enabled the account.

     

    Take a look at this recent article by TonyRedmond on the matter: https://www.petri.com/turn-office-365-off-at-the-weekend