As mentioned, in the Exchange-based environment, the Exchange mail connectors are automatically configured to use the option of opportunistic TLS. The configuration of opportunistic TLS is automatically configured on the default incoming mail connector and, on the default outgoing mail connector. Exchange on-Premises infrastructure | opportunistic TLS settings In the following section, we will review the default settings […]
Adding an external sender notification to the top of an email is an important distinction for many companies. This disclaimer quickly identifies to its end users when a message is sourced from an external sender. This eliminates the guesswork for internal users, helping them to identify potential phishing attacks but also a great reminder when […]
One of the benefits of Exchange hybrid configuration is that it allows for central management of both systems – your on-prem server and Office 365 Active Directory. With the Microsoft DirSync tool you can also propagate user information from your local environment up to the Cloud. Its another great feature is that it also allows to sync users’ […]
Greetings folks! Approximately four-score and seven years ago (in cloud-years), I posted a blog with a stated intention of it being the first in a series about the modern Microsoft enterprise productivity platform. I assure you, that intention remains but it’s just taken me a teeeeeeeny bit longer than I’d expected to get to […]
Scenario: When offboarding a mailbox, you receive the following error: “You cannot migrate mailbox off of Office365 while the mailbox has a connected account enabled.” Solution: You will have to remove the subscription before offboarding the mailbox. First, check the subscription to make sure its not anything that’s going to affect the user: get-subscription –mailbox […]
Scenario: After introducing additional Exchange On-Premises servers, we noticed that Autodiscover stopped working for our Exchange Online Hybrid mailboxes that were on computers internal to the domain. Using the ‘Test E-mail AutoConfiguration’ feature in Outlook, it would fail after the SCP/DNS autodiscover lookup. Reason: Outlook has an Autodiscover Redirect limit of 8-10 responses. Being we had more than 10 servers in our Exchange […]
In the previous two posts, we looked at two capabilities of Azure Information Protection (AIP) P1, which is one of the many subscriptions bundled into Microsoft 365 Business: Email encryption & customization Labels for classifying messages and documents Recent announcements have shifted the sands a bit here with so-called “Unified labeling“–which refers to a separate data classification […]
Today I`m writing a post about how to force your users to use the Outlook app on iOS and Android devices, even when using a personal non-managed device. A reason for this requirement of forcing your users to use the Outlook app is the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) on your users mailboxes. Some third-party […]