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New Security and Compliance add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium – Enterprise security without Enterprise prices
Small and medium businesses face the same cybersecurity threats as enterprises – but rarely have the same budgets. Microsoft is addressing this gap with three new add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium, available from September 2025. These add-ons deliver enterprise-level protection at SMB-friendly prices: Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium – $10/user/month End-to-end security across… Read More »
How IsExchangeCloudManaged can finally liberate you from the Last Exchange Server
For years, IT administrators have been stuck in a frustrating paradox: all their mailboxes live happily in Exchange Online, yet they are forced to maintain that one stubborn Exchange server on-premises. Why? Just to manage email addresses and mailbox attributes. It’s like keeping a whole car in your garage just to use the radio. That… Read More »
Exchange Online introduces Tenant Outbound Email Limits
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 introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Copilot in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family
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 »
Microsoft enforcement of mandatory MFA
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 »
Organizational messages in Microsoft 365
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 »
Microsoft releases ability to remove last Exchange server from hybrid environments
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 »
How to switch Office 365 licenses using PowerShell
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 »
Fixing the "ExchangeGuid is mandatory on UserMailbox" issue
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 »