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The_Exchange_Team on 06-11-2021 08:40 AM

We typically release our quarterly CUs for Exchange Server on the third Tuesday of a month. In June 2021, that would be ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-27-2021 01:37 PM

We wanted to provide a lot of detail of what makes Data Consistency Score (DCS) Exchange Online migrations work, how to ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-26-2021 01:16 PM

It is with great excitement that we are announcing that we have graduated the shared calendar improvements in Outlook fo...

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Scott Schnoll on 05-13-2021 03:45 PM

As part of our continued efforts to help customers be successful with Exchange Online, Microsoft has detected that some ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-11-2021 09:54 AM

We are releasing a set of security updates for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019.

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-06-2021 10:59 AM

In this blog post, we discuss issues when creating public folder migration endpoints for Exchange 2010 on-premises publi...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-05-2021 12:28 PM

Last year we released the Reply-all Storm Protection feature to help protect your organization from unwanted reply-all s...

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The_Exchange_Team on 05-03-2021 06:45 AM

With this blog post we will give you an overview of how we handle possible mail loop scenarios in Exchange Online and ho...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-29-2021 06:20 AM

We wanted to give you an update on Exchange Health Checker script.

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Scott Schnoll on 04-27-2021 08:35 PM

Today, we are excited to announce that the new EAC is now generally available for customers (including GCC customers) in...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-26-2021 03:00 AM

Why does it matter if you keep your Exchange Server updated, or not? What does it mean to be on a 'supported version' of...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-19-2021 01:52 PM

Modern Authentication, based on OAuth2, has a lot of advantages and benefits as we have covered before, and we’ve yet to...

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-13-2021 10:01 AM

We are releasing a set of security updates for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019.

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The_Exchange_Team on 04-02-2021 06:20 AM

We know that some of our customers leverage Exchange transport rules to prepend subject line or insert the message body ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 03-25-2021 07:20 AM

Email distribution groups (DGs) are great for easily sharing information or engaging in discussions with a large group o...

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The_Exchange_Team on 03-16-2021 09:00 AM

Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2016 and Ex...

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The_Exchange_Team on 03-08-2021 06:41 PM

To help customers more quickly protect their environments in light of the March 2021 Exchange Server Security Updates, M...

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The_Exchange_Team on 03-02-2021 01:08 PM

We are releasing a set of out of band security updates for Exchange Server.

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-25-2021 10:14 AM

We would like to have Exchange Online customers (who would like to participate in a preview program) help us improve the...

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-22-2021 07:03 AM

To ensure optimal mail flow performance for all customers and protect the health of Exchange services, Microsoft is upda...

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-11-2021 07:26 AM

At Microsoft Ignite 2020, we announced the preview of support for Linux and Windows PowerShell Core in Exchange Online m...

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-04-2021 09:00 AM

We previously announced we would begin to disable Basic Auth for five Exchange Online protocols in the second half of 20...

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-03-2021 08:10 AM

A redirect URI, or Reply-URL, is where an authorization server sends a user once their app has been successfully authori...

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The_Exchange_Team on 02-02-2021 08:56 AM

Administrators who want to limit the app access to a specific set of mailboxes can create an application access policy. ...

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The_Exchange_Team on 01-22-2021 03:03 PM

Microsoft periodically refreshes certificates in Office 365 as part of our effort to maintain a highly available and sec...

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The_Exchange_Team on 01-21-2021 11:37 AM

Continuing on our path to release the new EAC, we wanted to tell you that the Groups feature is now available and what t...

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The_Exchange_Team on 01-19-2021 08:50 AM

It is important for administrators to know of all mailboxes that have forwarding enabled and where the mail is been forw...

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The_Exchange_Team on 01-15-2021 09:23 AM

With the deprecation and disablement of TLS 1.0/1.1. we thought to share some information on what behaviors you might se...

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The_Exchange_Team on 01-11-2021 01:32 PM

In Exchange Online we automatically perform certain public folder mailbox management so you may focus your time managing...

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The_Exchange_Team on 12-15-2020 08:37 AM

Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.

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in News About the June 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server on 06-15-2021

AMSI is interesting, however it brings this question. If malware scanning is disabled on the Exchange 2016 servers. Does it still work or does it force itself "ON" even if while installing the patch we keep it off explicitly. Windows Antimalware would be ON by default and isn't turned off in this ca...

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in Best practices for public folder preparation before migrations on 06-14-2021

Kinda worried about following through with the recommendations from the ValidateMailEnabledPublicFolders.ps1 script. There's a PublicFolder object named "Schema" in Microsoft Exchange System Objects. I'm reluctant to delete anything named "schema" in a database, but its weird seeing it with the obje...

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in September 2020 Hybrid Configuration Wizard Update on 06-14-2021

When running the HCW for additional tenants on the same on-prem Exchange 2016, we experienced the following issues: - If using a multi-SAN certificate, the SMTP mail flow is interrupted, because HCW appears to update the certificate on both the on-prem Receive Connector and the EXO Outbound Connecto...

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in All you need to know about automatic email forwarding in Exchange Online on 06-14-2021

Following the new changes with the Outbound Spam Policies and blocking external forwarding by default I have had to change the way our emails are forwarded to our external customer services email platform hosted by a third party. I have set up forwarding on the email addresses via the Exchange Admin...

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in Announcing OAuth 2.0 support for IMAP and SMTP AUTH protocols in Exchange Online on 06-10-2021

In addition to use with personal mail accounts, we use MSFT OAuth2 authentication extensively for outbound mail from our websites via PHPMailer (for Contact forms, sales notifications to customers and so on). To avoid reissuing refresh tokens along with the access bearer token each time a customer u...

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