Last Update: Jul 24, 2023
As an IT Pro, it is crucial to your organization to make sure that your users receive legitimate emails. Sometimes, Exchange Online Protection (EOP) can flag these emails as spam. Safely creating whitelists for specific domains/email addresses allows you to efficiently manage email flow in your organization and protect your users from malicious activity. In…
Last Update: Jul 24, 2023
Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s blocking the use of Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol for Exchange Online in June 2023. The company recommends organizations to plan their migrations to the latest Exchange Online PowerShell module. In October, Microsoft started killing off Basic Authentication support for Exchange Online customers to prevent password spray attacks. This change applies…
Last week, Microsoft confirmed that Chinese hackers gained unauthorized access to email accounts of U.S. government agencies and other sensitive organizations. On Friday, the company detailed a blog post to explain the cause of the security breach that compromised Exchange Online email services. According to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team, the Storm-0558 hacking group abused three…
Microsoft has disclosed that Chinese hackers breached the email accounts of US government employees. The hacking group (tracked as Storm-0558) exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s cloud email service to gain unauthorized access to email systems. Microsoft found that the threat actors used forged authentication tokens to access affected user accounts through Outlook Web Access in…
Microsoft unveiled its plans to retire the old Exchange Admin Center (EAC) in 2021. The company has announced that the new EAC has reached feature parity with the classic portal, which will be fully retired on June 20, 2023. Microsoft announced the general availability of its new EAC back in April 2021. Since then, the…
Last year, Microsoft unveiled that it would phase out Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online in September this year. Now, the company has announced that it has delayed the deprecation of CARs, and it’s expected to be complete until September 2024. Client Access Rules (CARs) is a feature that enables IT admins to allow…
Last year, Microsoft announced its plans to deprecate Remote PowerShell (RPS) in Exchange Online in June 2023. Now, the company has decided to delay the deprecation of the RPS protocol until October this year. Remote PowerShell is a feature that allows IT admins to connect to their Exchange Online through PowerShell commands. It lets administrators…
Microsoft is introducing a transport-based enforcement system in Exchange Online that will throttle and block emails from old Exchange Servers. The company explained that this change aims to encourage organizations to upgrade to a supported version of Exchange Server. Microsoft has found that thousands of on-premises customers are running outdated versions of Exchange Servers. The…
Microsoft has announced that it’s deprecating Remote PowerShell (RPS) for Exchange Online in new tenants next month. The company will begin blocking RPS connections for all new Exchange Online customers on April 1, 2023. “Today, we are announcing that starting April 1, 2023, we will start blocking RPS connections for all tenants created on or…
Microsoft has released a new update that brings improvements to the Message Recall functionality in Exchange Online. The company has announced that the cloud-based feature enables customers to recall read messages. The classic Message Recall feature enables users to retrieve unread emails from the mailboxes of the recipients. However, it doesn’t support recalling read messages…