User able to send mail with account locked
Hello and Happy New Year! I tried to go through the official M365 support channels on this issue, but they were unable to help me. Environment: Local Active Directory synced to Azure/M365 via Azure AD Connect All user mailboxes reside on Exchange Online We found out, via a external security audit, that we had an user account, which was both locked and had an expired password, that was still able to send email out via the iOS Outlook app. We were under the impression that if an account was locked that they could still receive email, but not send. The account was for an employee that is no longer active and thus has been archived and deleted. We are just hoping for an explanation/root cause of this and how we can hopefully prevent it from happening in the future. Thank you, Tony Martinac AMIC
outlook 365 set categories in admin center possible?
Hello, We're using Office 365 we have problems on multiple iMacs with the Outlook app. The colors of the categories sometimes disappear en sometimes different colors are suddenly popping up. It's happening on older iMac as on new ones as well. After a fresh install sometimes it works again for a while but then they'll start disappearing again. Very annoying and more people seem to have the same problem. Now I want to set the categories in the office or exchange admin center, but I cannot find out where I could do this. Hopefully when we set the categories for the whole company, hopefully the problems won't come back again. I think it might have something do also with delegated mailboxes but all people using them have all the rights. We're using the legacy Outlook while the new Outlook does show only a very few of our IMAP folders Hopefull you can help us out here, thanks!Sender Rewrite
Hi, I'm looking at a scenario where a company has two Microsoft 365 tenants for different divisions in different countries. The issue is that they need to be able to have external email addresses with the same domain. Apparently this is a fairly common requirement when a corporate acquisition occurs (though most commonly for a short period until migrations can be done), so it seems it should be possible. There are various options for incoming email that seem to work such as email forwarding between tenants or an external forwarding service like improvMX (though it seems from what I'm reading there may be some DMARC issues associated with this approach?), the issue is giving outgoing email the correct "from" domain. Searching on the subject seems to touch on various possibilities, Exchange Edge Transport Server, SRS in Office 365, and even postfix, but it's all a bit unclear what is current, what is built into Microsoft 365 itself (obviously not postfix) or indeed what actually does what I'm looking for. So I'm hoping to avoid going down too many rabbit holes and dead ends by asking here.
How to remove Google Meet links and add Teams links in all recently migrated calendar events?
Hello, we have just finished migrating our company from Google Workspace to O365. Things went more or less smoothly, but now we're noticing that all of our migrated calendar events still have the Google Meet link associated with them. Is there a way to bulk remove all Google Meet links from all of our calendar items and replace them with Teams links? Many thanks in advance!What’s new and coming to Microsoft Outlook – Ignite 2024
Since its launch, Copilot in Outlook has helped you manage and triage your email, providing drafting assistance, summaries, and insights to help you save time. Whether you need help drafting the appropriate email response, schedule meetings in a few clicks, find key information in an email thread, or make sure your message has the right tone and clarity, Copilot can help you achieve your goals. During Ignite, we added to our efforts to help you manage your inbox, and showed you how you can manage your meetings easier using Copilot, and also dived into the latest updates to the new Outlook for Windows and what to expect in the coming year. Let’s take a look at the capabilities we announced this week! Manage meetings easier with Copilot in Outlook We spend a lot of time in meetings during our work hours, sometimes as high as 60% of our time can be spent between meetings, emails, and chats. Even scheduling a meeting can take up to 15 mins, but Copilot can make this a little easier. Copilot now helps you schedule 1:1s and focus time, just ask Copilot to find some time with someone in your org and it will find the optimal time. Because Copilot is grounded on your organization’s data, it knows who your close collaborators are so you can ask Copilot something like “Schedule a meeting with my manager for next week” or “Schedule a meeting with Caitlin for next week” and Copilot will know to whom you are referring. Do you need time to finish a project? No problem – Ask Copilot to find reserve focus time for next week, “Find 3 hours of focus time next week before Wednesday”, and done! Now you can focus on your project. Schedule one-on-one meetings using Copilot in Outlook Meetings can make it easier to make decisions, iron details, or discuss ideas but sometimes it’s hard to keep them on track and focused. Making sure your meeting has an agenda can help you stay on track and make sure you are tackling the important points – Copilot can draft an agenda for you based on your input, just open the meeting invite, select “Draft with Copilot”, and provide some input like “Review the Contoso project, introduce a new team member, and discuss sales plan”. Copilot creates an agenda which you can easily edit. Once you are ready, just remember to send the invite. Use Copilot in Outlook to draft an agenda for your meeting Sometimes, you need to schedule a meeting with more than one person, but have you had to schedule a meeting to bring a long email to a conclusion? Reading and summarizing long email threads is time consuming and finding time between multiple people can be challenging, unless you have Copilot. Without leaving the conversation, Copilot can help you schedule a meeting to bring that long email thread to closure – Just select the “Schedule with Copilot” button and Copilot will get you ready for that meeting, it will i) Summarize the entire thread, ii) Create an agenda, and iii) find a time that works. Quick and easy, schedule a meeting in just a few clicks. Get help from Copilot to schedule a meeting based on an email conversation A new way to draft emails We all need some help sometimes writing an email, whether you are having writer’s block to start or you want to rewrite some parts of it – The new drafting with Copilot experience can help. We’ve updated the drafting experience to make it native to the compose window in Outlook, added suggested prompts so you can kick off your draft without even typing, and allow you to rewrite parts of your message with Copilot. Is it hard to choose which draft iteration is the best one? No worries, we’ve added the ability for you to review and choose between all the suggested drafts. So, whether you need a little help to get started or a lot of help to make sure you have the best message, Copilot has you covered. New Outlook for Windows showing the new drafting with Copilot experience What is new andcoming to the new Outlook for Windows The new Outlook for Windows is a reimagined experience designed to be more agile and innovative. With faster feature deployment and availability, it brings the latest Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities and delivers a consistent experience across Windows. As we continue to work on your feedback to bring you the best experience for the new Outlook for Windows, there are some updates we want to share. Where we are We reached General Availability for commercial customers this year and are still in opt-in phase with optional policies for organizations that want to move their users into new Outlook. To see all our adoption content please visit https://aka.ms/newOutlookAdoption and continue sending us your feedback at https://aka.ms/newOutlookFeedback to help us prioritize our work. What to expect Over the past few years, we have been in an opt-in phase for the new Outlook. As we plan to transition to an opt-out model, some organizations have already begun migrating on their own. We anticipate that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with Microsoft 365 for business plans will begin to be moved into this phase starting in January 2025, and with customers withMicrosoft 365 for enterprises licenses following in 2026. Importantly, there will still be an option to revert to the previous version if needed. In the coming year, we expect more organizations to expand their piloting and planning efforts for the new Outlook. During this phase, we encourage you to file DCRs and submit feedback both within the app and through your account teams. Graph showing the current state and estimated timelines What to do next The new Outlook migration journey has 3 main steps. Pre-migration, migration, and post-migration. Pre-Migration: During pre-migration, admins and their IT teams should learn as much as they can about the migration - What the migration entails and the implications for their organization. This also involves early migration piloting. Migration: The migration step is when the migration is executed. Piloting continues and the migration process evolves and becomes more extensive. Post-Migration: Finally, in post-migration, IT is wrapping up the activities from the second step. They’re also decommissioning the previous experience and learning to improve subsequent migrations. Graph showing the migration stages for the new Outlook for Windows Plan your migration Review the migration kit - https://aka.ms/newOutlookAdoption Admin control options - https://aka.ms/newOutlookControlRelease Learn about policy management - Policy Management - Deploy Office Prepare to manage updates and set up early adopters on Targeted Release Transition from COM to web add-ins - Migrate from COM to web add-ins and review a list of available web add-ins. We hope all these updates help you be more productive, save time, and plan your migration to the next phase. Please, keep sending us your feedback – It really helps us focus our work. Thanks!Mail enabled AD accounts
I have a question about email delivery to Mail enabled AD accounts. I am aware that these types of accounts are useful when you need to provide an external person like a contractor a login but don't want to provide them with a mailbox. You can add their external email address to the email field in Entra but they login with your companies UPN. Apparently there is also a license saving here as you dont need to assign them an E5 My questions are: If I put their UPN as the recipient of an email and send it will EXO fail to deliver it since they don't have an EXO mailbox? Or will it deliver to the external mail address set in the mail address field in their user account? How does advanced features like purview etc work if they don't have an E5? What's the process to create one of these mail enabled users?AD Hybrid MailUser
I started a new job and noticed that the Exchange Online but the AD is hybrid and all the exchange attributes need to be managed in on-premises AD for proxyAddresses and Aliases. I didn't see an Exchange Server and was told it was uninstalled. How would I check that? I need to create a few MailUsers but the user accounts already exist. I have read that I should be able to Enable-Mailuser but that doesn't exist on Exchange online. How should I proceed in converting some Users to MailUsers without an exchange server on premise?Moving Exchange Account Source Account
I have a very complex environment I'm hoping someone might jump start my search. We have two domains syncing to Entra ID. One domain is a resource forest where our Exchange environment sits. That domain contains disabled stub accounts synced to our primary domain where the actual user accounts sit. The source for all EXO mailboxes are the stubs in the resource forest. Those accounts are kept in sync using FIM 2008. We're wanting to decom that entire resource environment and move all of the attributes to the primary domain. The resource domain schema is the last version of Ex 2016. The primary domain schema is Ex 2010 SP1. I know my first step is to update the primary schema, however, has anyone encountered a situation like this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
'$skiptoken' limit error for Microsoft Exchange online Reporting web service API
I was working on integratingMessageTrace report APIas a part of my SIEM integration: https://reports.office365.com/ecp/reportingwebservice/reporting.svc/MessageTrace[?ODATA options] I have noticed that, whenever my $skiptoken reaches the limit 999999 , it throws the following error with 500 status code: { "odata.error": { "code": "UnknownError", "message": { "lang": "", "value": "An error has occurred on the server." } } } It was working fine for the 999998 value, but wasn't for the $skiptoken value 999999. Is there any limitations on $skiptoken value from the API itself? Also, need information, if $skiptoken value 999999 exists, for example, "odata.nextLink": "../../reportingwebservice/reporting.svc/MessageTrace?$filter=StartDate%20eq%20DateTime'2024-12-02T00%3A00%3A00Z'%20and%20EndDate%20eq%20DateTime'2024-12-02T23%3A59%3A59Z'&$skiptoken=999999" then how can we request the data from next set of events? Can someone let me know, is there any max limit from Microsoft API side or for the $skiptoken?
