Azure – It is now easier to manage well-known ports (service) in your NSG

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As you know you should protect your resources running on Azure connected to a virtual network (vNet) using Network Security Group (NSG). Well, it now easier to manage well-known communication ports (or services) to allow/disallow traffic. When editing inbound or outbound rule to add new communication port you no longer have to manually enter the […]

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Exchange Online – Enforcing receiving email limit

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As you know Exchange Online has some limits in place to ensure performance and stability of the service (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits to know more about). As part of these limits, there is one restricting the number of emails received per hour – set to 3600 emails (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits#receiving-and-sending-limits). Starting April 2021 this limit will be enforce.

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Teams – You can now start a ‘Meet now’ meeting from Outlook

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As you know, you can start a ‘Meet now’ meeting from Teams to initiate a meeting without scheduling it. Well, you can now do the same directly from Outlook by accessing your calendar in Outlook and using the ‘Meet now’ button

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Azure AD – New administration roles for managing domain name and authentication methods

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Good news, you don’t need to be a global administrator to manage Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) or authentication methods. A new role called Authentication Policy Admin allows you to delegate authentication methods management, covering MFA or password protection policies. NOTE the legacy MFA setting is not available for the authentication policy admin role Below is

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Exchange Online – Exchange Online PowerShell module v2 is now available on Linux and MacOS

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Good news for Exchange Online administrators. If you are using a Linux of MacOS device, you can now install the ExO v2 PowerShell module on your device. MacOS versions supported are: Mojave Catalina Big Sur Linux distributions supported are: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 (including ARM64) Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10, 19.10 (via Snap package), 20.04, 20.10 Debian

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Teams – New setting to control 1:1 call recording policy

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As you may know, Teams administrators can control by policy call recording for both meeting and 1:1 calls. Well, regarding the 1:1 call recording policy, this is (was) controlled by the AllowCloudRecording global parameter. Starting March 11, 2021, a new parameter – allowCloudRecordingForCalls, specific for 1:1 calls, will be introduced which will be set by

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Exchange – Active Directory Right Management Services (AD RMS) is being retired

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As you know, Azure Information Protection (AIP) has been available for quite some time with the plan to replace Active Directory Right Management Services (AD RMS). Well, now it is time as integration and support of AD RMS on Exchange Online is being retired by February 28th 2021. If you are still using AD RMS

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Exchange Online – The ‘Move message to Junk Email folder’ option is being retired in EOP

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If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and have configured ‘Move message to Junk Email folder’ for high confidence spam and phishing emails you need to be aware this option is being retired. It will be replaced by the Quarantine message setting starting March 2021.

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Exchange Online – Changes on Reply-URL are coming

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Microsoft has identified that one of the Reply-URL used by Exchange Online for authentication and authorization is unsafe. As result, the Reply-URL list is going to be updated by end of March 2021. The Reply-URL being removed from the list is ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob. This will impact Exchange Online PowerShell modules earlier than 1.0.1, automation with ModernAuth

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