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Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA

Microsoft is retiring the “Exchange Online PowerShell module with MFA” on December 31, 2022 with support for the module ending this month on August 31, 2022.

This is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

It is recommended to now use the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module), which uses modern authentication and supports accounts with or without MFA.

If your like me you have a lot of updating to do to some old Exchange Online management scripts written with the older V1 module but, as an added bonus, there are a bunch of stunning exclusive Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlets that are optimized for bulk data retrieval scenario. Check out About the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module for more information about these new cmdlets.

For installation and connection instructions, see Install and maintain the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 mod ule and Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell.

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Microsoft Book of News is out

#Microsoft Ignite may be over but all the announcements can be found in one place in the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗜𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 found here:

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-november-2021-book-of-news/

Lots of news worthy announcements from new Azure VM’s, new Azure Arc-enabled features, on-demand disk bursting, to Context IQ, Microsoft Loop, Microsoft Mesh, and Microsoft Defender for Business!

Another #MSIgnite in the books but there is lots more exciting technology to use!

Thank-you #Microsoft for an awe-inspiring event!

Native External Sender Alerts on emails in Outlook

#Microsoft has released native External Sender Alerts on emails in Outlook for #ExchangeOnline email. This is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

It is hard to find that balance between user experience and cybersecurity and in today’s #HybridWorkplace it is as important as ever.

In the past to draw the attention of users to email which has come from external sources Exchange Administrators have leveraged Mail Flow rules (formerly Transport rules) to prepend to the subject line or insert to the message body to show the email is from external senders.

This approach has its limitations and can make reading the preview of email on mobile devices troublesome.

With Native External Sender Alerts on emails in Outlook for #ExchangeOnline email a new user experience is enabled. Note: Only Outlook products are supported on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Outlook on the web.

Outlook on the web, Mac, and mobile will display an External tag in the message list. Outlook Desktop and OWA will show the sender’s email address at reading pane info bar.

Outlook on the web view of External sender:

In Outlook for iOS:

The feature is enabled thru PowerShell and may take 24-48 hours to become active. Don’t forget to disabled the old Mail Flow rule!

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on Set-ExternalInOutlook PowerShell cmdlet to enable External Sender Alerts on emails in Outlook in for Exchange Online email!

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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams

Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that #Microsoft has completed the rollout of Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links in #MicrosoftTeams to production and government #Microsoft365 tenants!

With this update, Microsoft brings the premium security of Window Defender for Office 365 Safe Links into #MicrosoftTeams clients!

ATP Safe Links for Teams checks that the links people click on in Teams are safe the moment that an end user clicks the link. If the link is flagged as malicious, ATP Safe Links will show a block page. All links throughout Teams including in chats, channels, and tabs are protected.

thumbnail image 1 captioned Figure 1: Safe Links prevents users from accessing malicious sites

To enable ATP Safe Links to protect users in Microsoft Teams, create or modify a Safe Links policy in the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal under Threat Policies then Safe Links.

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on Safe Links in Microsoft Defender for Office 365!

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PSTN Service Desk email support transition

Today’s exciting #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that beginning July 22, 2021 #Microsoft has transitioned to a new process to interact with the PSTN service desk for phone number porting and order support!

If you have been working to port numbers to #MicrosoftTeams in the past you will appreciate the ease of now being able to open tickets, view tickets, and track communication in the brand new Phone Number Service Center portal (of course hosted as a #PowerAppsPortal) that is integrated within the Teams Admin Center!

To access the new Phone Number Service Center portal open the #MicrosoftTeams Admin Center and then select “Voice” and then “Phone numbers”. At the top right click “Get phone number support”

From the Phone Number Service Center portal you can get help with porting numbers to Microsoft, or if you require help purchasing net new phone numbers from Microsoft.

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on the new PTSN Service Desk!

Expanded user impersonation to 350 protected users with anti-phishing policy

#Microsoft is increasing the number of protected users you can secure in #ExchangeOnline with #MicrosoftDefenderforOffice365 anti-phishing policies. This is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

Available by the end of the first week of June 2021 within Anti-Phishing policy, in the Users to protect section, you will be able to specify up to 350 users (per policy) up from 60 users.

This means you will be able to specify more users to be protected. This user impersonation protection continues to prevent the specified users from being impersonated as message senders. This is a must-have for key personnel in your organization from Board Members to Executives/C-Suite to your Finance staff and protects against impersonation attacks that are designed to trick key users such as finance, executive assistants, and HR into making wire transfers or providing other monetizable information to cybercriminals.

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on how to configure Impersonation settings in anti-phishing policies.

Migrate content from Dropbox to Microsoft 365

Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that #Microsoft has announced the public preview a new capability which allows administrators to take advantage of native #Microsoft365 tools for migrating #Dropbox content to #Microsoft365

Microsoft will being the rollout of this capability for public preview in late May 2021 with expected completion to be in early June 2021.

This capability will build upon other Migration Manager features found in the new #SharePoint Admin Center and enable administrators to migrate Dropbox folders and folder for users to #OneDriveForBusiness, #SharePointOnline, and #MicrosoftTeams!

After connecting to a Dropbox account Migration Manager will discover users and their files and automatically map to the destination users OneDrive for business account and prepare to copy! (of course admins can also manually map to a specific user account, SharePoint Online site, or Microsoft Teams channel)

Check out Microsoft Docs for more details!

Continuous access evaluation on by default!

You may have seen an email this week from #Microsoft advising that beginning on June 15th 2021 they will enable Continuous Access Evaluation on Premium Azure AD tenants by default. Your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix today is that this is a GOOD thing and you will want this capability!

Continuous Access Evaluation will only be active in sessions between clients and services that support it which for now are Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint Online. When enabled in your tenant critical events, such as disabling users and resetting passwords, and critical policies like location policy, will take effect within minutes!

You can disable this feature before June 15th 2021 if you don’t want to use it but the best example why you want this enabled is:

When a user is terminated and their mailbox is in Exchange Online they will still have access to their mailbox on their devices for some time after unless there are specific steps taken by the Exchange Admin because the access token on the device is still valid. Continuous Access Evaluation would notice that the user has be disabled and nearly synchronously disable the access by rejecting the token even though it is still valid.

More information for Continuous Access Evaluation can found on #Microsoft Docs.

Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection

Your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that #Microsoft has announced some important updates to the #ExchangeOnline Reply-All Storm Protection settings to roll-out by mid June 2021.

Reply-all Storm Protection helps protect your organization from unwanted reply-all storms which could disrupt your email services and in some cases throttle the rest of your organization’s email!

#Microsoft has announced the ability to customize these setting specifically to your organizations needs inside your #Microsoft365 Tenant. Administrators will have the flexibility to enable/disable the feature, and set customized detection thresholds and block duration time allowing smaller organizations to take advantage of Reply-all Storm Protection.

Check out the Exchange Team Blog for more details!

Microsoft Teams Webinars Rolling out in May 2021

An exciting update for today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix – #Microsoft has begun the rollout of the #MicrosoftTeams webinars capability.

With this update, when scheduling a meeting, you will see the Webinar option on the Calendar drop down menu in the #MicrosoftTeams interface (desktop/web).

Look for this to appear in #MicrosoftTeams by end of May 2021 and be free to use for the rest of 2021!