Managing email addresses in Exchange Online despite hybrid status

On August 20th, the Exchange team published a post that should give many admins and consultants a sigh of relief. It’s now finally possible (for what feels like an eternity) to change Exchange attributes, such as user email addresses, in the cloud. These changes are then even written back to the local AD using Entra …

With MTA-STS for More Security in Email Traffic

Several days ago, the BSI published a good article on the topic of email security and modern email infrastructures. https://www.allianz-fuer-cybersicherheit.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Webs/ACS/DE/BSI-CS/BSI-CS_155.pdf This prompted me to write this article. Since the SMTP protocol was designed in the 1980s and security was not a major concern at that time, we need to continuously develop mechanisms to adapt this …

FullAccess Permissions in Exchange Online with additional information

In mid-March, I received an email from a reader (Sebastian) asking if it was possible to read out all full access permissions and then enrich this information with additional details. Specifically, it was about the department, meaning that the mailbox, authorized user, and the department of the authorized user should be output to a CSV …

Mark E-Mails external with Exchange Online External Sender Identification

For some time now, Exchange Online has offered the option of making external emails visible directly in Outlook as well as OWA and Outlook Mobile. This function is called quite unspectacularly “ExternalInOutlook”. In action the function looks like this: I have already published an article on the topic of email banners with Exchange Transport Rules …

Exchange Online send mails with E-Mail alias

Long time, there was no way to change the send mail address from primary to alias mail addresses. So sending address was forced by administration. Even if users have multiple smtp-addresses there was no official way to accomplish this. January 2022 changed this statement, now it is possible to use the secondary mail address. More …