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2060 TopicsImproving Security - Together
For many years, client apps have used Basic Authentication to connect to servers, services and endpoints. It is enabled by default on most servers and services and it’s super simple to set up. Simplicity isn’t at all bad in itself, but Basic Authentication makes it easier for attackers to capture user’s credentials and so we’re taking steps to improve data security in Exchange Online.290KViews23likes148CommentsNative external sender callouts on email in Outlook
We know that some of our customers leverage Exchange transport rules to prepend subject line or insert the message body to show the email is from external senders. This approach has a few limitations, so we are working on native functionality.366KViews19likes168CommentsTasks in Microsoft 365 - our vision for a unified experience.
The presence of tasks in Microsoft 365 is extensive and growing, most recently with the announcement of Tasks in Teams. We’re excited to share our broader vision around task integrations across the Microsoft stack, and how we're working to bring a connected, contextual task-management experience to end users (wherever they prefer to get their work done) and support workflow integration for organizations.53KViews18likes31CommentsEnabling Modern Auth for Outlook – How Hard Can It Be?
Modern Authentication, based on OAuth2, has a lot of advantages and benefits as we have covered before, and we’ve yet to meet a customer who doesn’t think it is a good thing. But the ‘getting there’ part might be the hard part...128KViews12likes26CommentsAggregate availability from multiple calendars
I prefer to keep personal appointments on one calendar (on Outlook.com) and work appointments on my work calendar (O365 Exchange), but Exchange only seems to use my work calendar to show my availability to other people in my organization. I'd like to have a way to aggregate my availability from multiple calendar sources, the way that you can overlay multiple calendars in Outlook. It's not really a matter of me seeing all my appointments, because I can easily see everything in a consolidated view in Outlook on my desktop or mobile; it's more about letting others in my organization know when I'm free to meet. I know there is (used to be?) a "free/busy server" option in Outlook client, but I feel like this should be something that can be set on my Exchange profile, so that it doesn't matter what client I'm using. Aside from that kind of option, I guess I'd guess I might be OK with a solution that duplicates anything added to my personal calendar as a block on my work calendar or vice versa, even if it's an IFTTT-type thing. I saw a similar post that mentions some 3rd-party tools from CodeTwo and Connecting Software, but given this is just a preference of mine, I'm probably not going to spend a lot on a workaround. TLDR: Is there a better approach to showing consolidated availability than manually duplicating my appointments between calendars? Thanks!120KViews12likes30CommentsCalendaring is Really Hard to Code and That’s Why You Were An Hour Late to that Meeting
Writing code for calendaring features is hard. You finally figure out a good time for your team to meet and then one of the attendees happens to live in a country that decided to implement Daylight Saving Time (DST) and change the local time by an hour. Just in that country. Here's some advice on what to do and how to handle it.10KViews12likes0Comments