Microsoft 365 - Exchange Online

Creating an Exchange Online Inbound Email Traffic Report for the Last 90 Days

Tony Redmond — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Exchange Online keeps message trace data online for 10 days. If you want an email traffic report covering longer periods, you need to retrieve historical message data (for up to 90 days) and report that data. That's the easy description. This article explains some of the complexities involved in generating a 90-day email traffic report for a Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Combining PowerApps and Azure Functions to Build User Self-Service Capabilities

Ingo Gegenwarth — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:41:44 +0000

In this article, Ingo Gegenwarth shows you how to develop an interface for end-users using Microsoft PowerApps for interacting and rendering data from Exchange Online.

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How to Configure Automated Processing for a Room Mailbox

Tony Redmond — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Room mailboxes are a well-known part of Exchange Online. With a little planning, it's easy to add automated bookings for room mailboxes. In this example, we create a room mailbox and configure it to allow salespeople to book customer meetings during a conference.

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Understanding Exchange Shared Mailbox Permissions

Jaap Wesselius — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Shared mailboxes are widely used in Exchange and their permissions are relatively simple to set and manage. In this blog, Jaap Wesselius deep dives into Understand Exchange shared mailbox permissions and walks you through how to grant permissions in different Exchange environments.

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Microsoft’s Glacial Progress to Improve Purview Audit

Tony Redmond — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Despite making a commitment to generate MailItemsAccessed events for customers with Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) licenses in July 2023, Microsoft won't ship the necessary updates until June 2024.

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How End-users Can Bypass Exchange Online Protection

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Most think that the safe senders list does not override the anti-spam policies configured in Exchange Online, but the opposite is true. In this blog, we discuss how this happens and how to fix it with PowerShell.

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Five Ways to Enhance Collaboration Between Tenants

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

While most organizations operate a single Microsoft 365 tenant, there are cases where multiple tenants need to work very closely together. In this article, Sean McAvinue explains five ways to make the cross-tenant collaboration experience easier for end users and when to use each.

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Reusing User Principal Names and Primary SMTP Addresses

Tony Redmond — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft 365 user accounts have user principal names (for sign in) and primary SMTP addresses (to receive email). Is it a good idea to reuse user principal names or SMTP addresses that become available when an employee leaves the organization. It might seem like a good idea, but it's really not and should be avoided. We explain why here.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot GA, What happened at TEC; Ignite is back & more: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E5

Steve Goodman — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:53:50 +0000

On this episode of the Practical 365 podcast, Rich and Paul talk about Microsoft 365 Copilot GA, The Experts Conference, Microsoft Ignite being sold out, and Exchange Web Services retiring soon.

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Heard at TEC: Has the Microsoft Cloud Killed On-Premises Servers

Becky Cross — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Has the Microsoft Cloud Killed On-Premises Servers? Well... Thats up for debate! And that is exactly what Tony Redmond and Greg Taylor did at TEC 2023. This blog goes over main points from their debate, while providing some insights to help you decide if you should be moving to the cloud.

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