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Persistently Vulnerable Exchange Servers to Exchange Online, we explained that for security reasons, messages sent from out-of-date on-premises Exchange servers over an inbound connector of type OnPremises would soon be subject to throttling and blocking. If your out-of-date on-premises connecting servers are getting throttled or blocked, you’ll see one or both of these errors in your on-premises email logs:
4.7.230 Connecting Exchange server version is out-of-date; connection to Exchange Online throttled for n mins/hr.
5.7.230 Connecting Exchange server version is out-of-date; connection to Exchange Online blocked for n mins/hr.
As noted in the previous post, each tenant subject to this restriction can pause enforcement (throttling and blocking) for up to 90 days each calendar year. They can use these days however and whenever they want, within that same calendar year.
To check if Exchange Online has detected any connecting out-of-date servers and details like when throttling or blocking will start run this Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet:
Get-OnPremServerReportInfo
Exchange Online Transport Team
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