Licensing question: Exchange Server SE for CSP M365 E3/E5 customers without Extended Use Rights
Does anyone have any information on licensing the new Exchange Server SE for customers who have M365/O365 E3/E5 purchased via CSP but do not have Extended Use Rights (i.e., no EA/EAS -> no on-prem Office server licenses included)? Specifically: Is it enough to license Exchange Server SE per node only, or Do customers also need to purchase Exchange Server CALs per user (even if they already have M365 E3/E5)? I’ve spoken with multiple licensing distributors and a Microsoft partner contact, but I still haven’t been able to get a definitive answer. According to a comment from Jeremy Carlson and Microsoft’s licensing documentation, certain licenses appear to include "CAL-equivalency rights". Can anyone here confirm whether these CAL-equivalency rights cover access to Exchange Server SE in the CSP E3/E5 (no Extended Use Rights) scenario? licensing reference: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/CALandMLEquivalencyLicenses/MCA#clause-2165-h3-1OneDrive webhook API occasionally returns a 401 status code
TL;DR: scroll down to the "Questions" section Hello, I am currently working on an integration with OneDrive that manipulates webhook subscriptions to OneDrive drives via the Graph API, using the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/concepts/using-webhooks?view=odsp-graph-online endpoint. Sometimes, without any apparent reason, the API returns a 401 Unauthorized error with a response similar to the one below (this one is the payload of an actual response I got for a https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/subscription_update?view=odsp-graph-online call): { "error": { "code": "ExtensionError", "message": "Operation: Update; Exception: [Status Code: Unauthorized; Reason: Authentication failed]", "innerError": { "date": "2021-04-16T00:29:11", "request-id": "4f1f55fe-9ac1-4c8c-9d21-529d0d0be1a1", "client-request-id": "4f1f55fe-9ac1-4c8c-9d21-529d0d0be1a1" } } } Retrying the request usually works (yes, retrying the exact same request that returned a 401 Unauthorized error can succeed if retried). To demonstrate this, I attached the logs of 2 other, identical requests: one that failed and another one that succeeded. I obfuscated the auth tokens, but assume that the exact same auth token was used for both. Also assume that the endpoint indicated in the payload existed at the time, and correctly performed the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/concepts/webhook-receiver-validation-request?view=odsp-graph-online. Given that the response payload and headers don't provide any useful information (even the x-ms-ags-diagnostic header is identical between a successful and a failed request), and that the documentation does not mention https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/subscription_update?view=odsp-graph-online#error-responses to these endpoints and their status codes I wanted to reach out to the community to check if anyone else faced a similar issue. ==Questions== Did anyone experience intermittent 401 Unauthorized status codes from the OneDrive /subscriptions endpoints? If so, how did you handle them? The naiive approach would be to retry the request, except that the outcome of a request that returns a 401 Unauthorized status code is uncertain. For example, sometimes the webhook gets eventually created even when a POST /subscription request apparently fails. Given the nature of the problem, it's hard to come up with a consistent way to test this, but if I discover more information I'll update this post. Thanks!
Meeting change notification cannot receive notice after updating meeting
Hi, I have some questions about online meeting subscription. I created change notifications for online meeting resource and it worked before, But if I update the meeting(such as changing meeting time, changing subject or adding/removing attendee). The subscription still be valid but I cannot receive change notice when I start meeting. Can I confirm that is the change notification doesn't support meeting after updating? ThanksQuestion about subscription length
Hi, I want to keep a change notification subscription to calendar and online meeting resource being updated every day(firstly created a subscription with 24 hours length and set expire time in next 24 hours after one day) but the subscription disappear in 3 days(I wanted to update existing subscription but received 404 response). I know that the maximum life length of subscription for event is 3 days but I want to confirm that this period is the time the subscription could be saved in Microsoft and cannot be extended?(Can I update expire time to extend subscription or only 3 days after it being created?)process for Azure subscription retirement
Hi all, I'm wondering what processes/workflows you have in place for retiring (deleting) no more needed subscriptions. I was thinking about stuff like this: Financial reporting cleanup RBAC cleanup Firewall rule cleanup Removal of AAD groups What else could there be ? Could anyone share their view or even provide some useful documentations? Thanks !
