Microsoft 365 - Exchange Online

Using Azure Email Communication Service to Send Messages

Tony Redmond — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

If you're looking for an email service capable of handling large volumes of email to external recipients, Microsoft will propose Email Communication Services (ECS). Built on top of Exchange Online, ECS shares some characteristics with the High Volume Email (HVE) solution. After testing both, HVE is probably a better solution if you have a Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Controlling Teams Transcripts

Karin Skapski — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:17:45 +0000

Teams meeting transcripts can significantly enhance meeting productivity and accessibility, but their management involves careful consideration of data protection, privacy, and storage concerns. This article provides an overview of how to manage Teams meeting transcripts effectively, covering key topics such as storage changes, privacy controls, and strategies to ensure compliance while maximizing the benefits of transcription in your organization.

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Exchange Online’s New High Volume Email (HVE) Solution

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Exchange Online High-Volume Email (HVE) solution handles up to 100,000 internal messages and 2,000 external messages daily. It's intended to replace on-premises Exchange servers that organizations keep just to service email submission from devices and applications. In this review of the preview version, we discovered that almost everything works just fine, if you keep within the throttling limits.

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TEC Tips: Email Protection Basics

Ingo Gegenwarth — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Email is a primary target for breaches, making it crucial to have a strong line of defense for your email security. In this blog, we go over some Email Protection basics to help keep your organization safe.

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Practical Exchange: Understanding SMTP Relay in Exchange Online

Jaap Wesselius — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this article, Jaap Wesselius explains the available options for SMTP relay when moving to Exchange Online.

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Practical Graph: Reporting Room Mailbox Weekly Schedules

Tony Redmond — Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A reader asked if it is possible to generate room mailbox weekly schedules that can be sent to distribution lists. This article explains how to accomplish the task using PowerShell and Graph API requests. Once you can get at the data, you can do anything!

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Migrate from EWS Application Access Policy to RBAC for Applications

Ingo Gegenwarth — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

On February 20, Microsoft announced their intention to remove Application Impersonation for EWS from Exchange Online. If you have existing management role assignments, this article explains how to make the transition to RBAC-based assignments.

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PowerShell, Teams, and Exchange News with Special Guest MVP Michel De Rooij: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E17

Steve Goodman — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:02:28 +0000

On the show this week, we're joined by fellow Microsoft MVP and long-term PowerShell, Exchange and Microsoft 365 expert, Michel De Rooij to discuss PowerShell, GitHub Copilot, Teams, and more!

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A New Take on The Classic Exchange Mailbox Statistics PowerShell Script

Tony Redmond — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Anyone who learned PowerShell to manage Exchange has probably written a script to report Exchange mailbox statistics, which means that many scripts have been written since 2006. This article describes a new take on the topic that produces a nice HTML report and two lists that can be used for other reporting.

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Microsoft Takes Steps to Offset Midnight Blizzard Damage

Tony Redmond — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:16:03 +0000

The fallout from the Midnight Blizzard attack against Microsoft continues as Microsoft takes action to harden the security of its own and customer tenants. One step is to retire the EWS Application Impersonation role. This will happen in February 2025 ahead of the retirement of Exchange Web Services in October 2026.

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