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AllenFilush
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Dec 09, 2016

Outlook 2007 connectivity to Office 365 ending in Oct 2017

Hey all. I wanted to give you a heads up on an upcoming deprecation in Office 365. On Oct 31, 2017, RPC/HTTP will be deprecated in Exchange Online in favor of MAPI/HTTP, a modern protocol launched in...
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MarcoMangiante
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Oct 03, 2017

Hello,

 

thanks for your quick reply. It continues to work supporting pop3/imap or even the connection to Exchange online via RPC over HTTP:I.e. after 31 October I continue to download and sync my mail or not?

 

Marco

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AllenFilush
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Oct 04, 2017

You can still connect to POP3/IMAP. For now, you will still be able to use RPC over HTTP to connect to Office 365 for now. It will just no longer be supported and will continue to get worse over time. I would not recommend staying on 2007. The product is over 10 years old - time to join the modern world! 

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