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2443 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.281KViews23likes148CommentsTasks 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.53KViews18likes31CommentsNative 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.317KViews18likes163CommentsAdvanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com
About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= It destroys the URL visibility experience. I quickly realized that this was an Office 365 (E5) feature called ATP, but I'm not talking about Office 365 here but rather the consumer Outlook.com site. I need to find out if we're going to be able to disable this, and when. It's unbelievable that MS just foisted it on us, since it's not even in the vast majority of Office 365 plans! I realize that some people have been seeing it longer than one week.149KViews14likes74CommentsEnabling 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...124KViews12likes26Comments