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Be Aware: Your company's AAD Connect may Auto-Upgrade
Azure Active Directory Connect version 1.1.561.0 was just released and it greatly expands the scope by which AAD Connect will automatically upgrade. AAD Connect automatically checks for new builds ever since version 1.1.105.0, but some previous configurations have been unable to auto-upgrade due to customization. Examples include using a defined service account instead of the default account and AAD Connect staging mode installations, but their are many more new scenarios. Don't be surprised by unexpected upgrades now that this new version has been released. Read more here...Re: Blocking Top Level Domains
If this is EXO, will the International Spam settings on Protection > Spam Filter achieve what you're wanting to do? Here, you can select "Filter email messages written in the following languages" and "Filter email messages sent from the following countries or regions".Re: Discontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
Actually, there's nothing preventing customers from deploying SBC integration solutions up until the day the SBCs are decommissioned in Office 365. There's no mechanism to surface a warning to customers that the SBCs are being decommissioned, so hopefully customers will see the notifications posted in the O365 Message Center.Re: Discontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
Correct, this only affects customers who use SBCs to connect to Office 365. Some companies have more than one PBX and may use SBCs for O365 connectivity, even when they have Lync/S4B in their environment.Re: Discontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
While this affects "only a small number of customers", those customers tend to be really, REALLY, big. We're talking some Fortune 100 companies here. Transitioning completely to SfB or SfBO in a year's time is no trivial task. TE-SYSTEMS anynode is a SIP-to-SIP software SBC solution. Great if your PBX already does SIP, but a number of large customers have analog PBXs. Traditional SBCs can convert analog PSTN calls to SIP using a Voice Gateway feature, and then trunk it over to Skype for Business or SfBO. Whatever direction you go, you will need to decide SOON, and start planning and executing immediately.Re: Issues with WS-FED Sign In
ForgeRock Identity is not on the Azure AD federation compatibility list, so it has not been validated to work with Office 365. That said, you can try following this ForgeRock OpenIDM and Office 365 post, which links to scripts they are developing for integration. Keep in mind, it's a work in progress and is only supported by ForgeRock.Re: Roadmap after Exchange 2016 for on-premise
Perry Clarke, Corporate Vice President Microsoft Exchange, wrote: "The Exchange engineering team is hard at work developing the next version of Exchange. We expect the next on-premises version to be released according to our traditional release cadence (2-3 years after the previous version). Microsoft has no plans to stop delivering on-premises releases of Exchange. .... While we are enthusiastic about the cloud, we also understand that our customers will transition to the cloud at their own pace. Many customers will remain on-premises or in hybrid deployments for the foreseeable future, and we want to keep delivering our newest and best features to them. Fortunately, our development process allows us to do that. We have a single code base that serves both cloud and on-premises customers, so we can deliver innovation to both groups." See Exchange Server: The Road Ahead
