Microsoft has announced a significant update to Exchange Online, where the service limit for outbound emails are changed from a per-mailbox daily send limit to a new tenant-level outbound email limits. The aim of this change is to enhance service reliability and prevent misuse of the shared resources. Here’s a detailed overview of the update… Read More »
Microsoft has just unveiled the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a secure, web grounded GPT-4o-powered chat experience for work and education that is accessible though web, Teams and Outlook. At the same time Microsoft has made Copilot in Microsoft 365 available for Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscription owners, who can utilize the integrated Microsoft 365… Read More »
As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Microsoft have started enforcing the use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all users when accessing certain portals and services. First in line to be included are Azure portals and services, with Microsoft 365 following in 2025. Enforcement phases Beginning October 2024, Microsoft started phase 1, where MFA… Read More »
As part of the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (ID 392847), Microsoft have introduced a preview for Organizational messages. The preview rolled out during May 2024, with expected general availability by mid-December 2024. Organizational messages offers a new way of enhancing information to the Microsoft 365 end-users, through targeted, branded and customized messages within apps, ensuring important information… Read More »
To stay in a supported state, even organizations that moved all their mailboxes to Exchange Online, have been required to keep at least one Exchange Server running in the Classic AD environment for as long as the directory synchronization to Azure AD is running. The purpose of this Exchange server is to handle the management… Read More »
When making changes to licenses in Office 365, I sometimes experience that the old and new licenses include options that conflict, and does not allow the licenses to be pooled or added to accounts at the same time. Changing the license of users in Office 365 need to be performed without impacting the end users… Read More »
During a recent Office 365 migration project I ran into an issue on the on-premises Exchange 2013 platform, when trying to create Mail User objects for the migrated mailboxes. The following error appeared when adding a new Mail User: ExchangeGuid is mandatory on UserMailbox. Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. After first verifying that the Exchange… Read More »
Recently I encountered a Web Application Proxy (WAP) server that was stuck in a failed state after changes to the ADFS backend service. In the Remote Access crimson log on the WAP server, an event 422 error appeared once every minute, showing that the WAP server could not retrieve proxy configuration from the ADFS backend… Read More »
This error can occur in a topology where an ADFS server is used for authenticating to Office 365 and the CRM Online service. When starting the CRM for Office 365 plug-in, the users receive the following error message during the ADFS authentication: An error occurred An error occurred. Contact your administrator for more information. Error… Read More »
I have have worked on a case where external access to the ADFS service was blocked and the Remote Access Management console on the WAP server fails with this error: Web Application Proxy could not connect to the AD FS configuration storage and could not load the configuration. Make sure that the Web Application… Read More »