Your quick fix of all things Microsoft Cloud
Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that starting shortly #Microsoft will begin the rollout of the “Set out of office within #MicrosoftTeams” capability.
With this update, you can create an out of office message from within Microsoft Teams desktop or Microsoft Teams on the web and the message will sync across your Outlook calendar, presence, and contact card information!
Look for this to appear in #MicrosoftTeams in May 2021!
New to #Microsoft365 or performing some firewall/IPS changes or updates? Your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is this landing page which you can share with your network team to ensure your users have the best experience!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/office-365-urls-ip-address-ranges
Your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is a friendly reminder to patch your on-premises #MicrosoftExchange Servers! #Microsoft has released cumulative updates for Exchange Server which include the fixes that were released earlier this month in response to the zero-day vulnerabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server that are being actively exploited.
I had a customer ask if after they were done migrating all their mailboxes and services from their local on-premises Exchange Server to Exchange Online if they could remove their local Exchange server. You certainly cant blame them for wanting to with the recent news of zero-day vulnerabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server that are being actively exploited and that Exchange Online was not at risk.
I remembered a great article posted a few years back by Paul Cunningham on Practical365.com and in it the following:
“If you have directory synchronization in place, then you need to manage the mail attributes of users, groups, and contacts in the on-premises Active Directory, and then allow those changes to synchronize to Azure Active Directory. The only πππ½π½πΌπΏππ²π± way to manage the mail attributes on-premises is using the Exchange management tools, which requires at least one Exchange server to be running.”
The key word is πππ½π½πΌπΏππ²π± and sadly no new updates from Microsoft have come since 2017 so for now the answer is no you must keep at least one Exchange Server on-premises and this has been your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix