Category - Microsoft 365 Here you will find all the articles related to Microsoft 365. Here you will find everything from articles about the new Outlook to setting up conditional access policies in Microsoft Entra. Just browse through the different posts or use the search function in the top right corner. I have highlighted 3 articles for you that are definitely worth reading. EWS is Being Blocked in Exchange Online – How to Find every App still Using it Exchange Web Services has been on the way out for years. Microsoft announced the retirement in 2023 and pointed everyone at Microsoft Graph. But it never fully went away, there ... Read more EWS is Being Blocked in Exchange Online – How to Find every App still Using it Microsoft Publisher Retires October 1: Do This Final File Check Microsoft Publisher reaches end of life on October 1, 2026, only three weeks away. After that date, it disappears from Microsoft 365 subscriptions, and you can no longer open or ... Read more Microsoft Publisher Retires October 1: Do This Final File Check How to Change the Meeting Organizer in Outlook (Admin Method) If you’ve ever had to offboard someone who organized half the recurring meetings in your company, you know the problem. The meeting series is still running, attendees still get reminders, ... Read more How to Change the Meeting Organizer in Outlook (Admin Method) Microsoft 365 vs Office 365 – What is the Difference? The names Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are used interchangeably everywhere. This is because half the articles you find are years out of date and Microsoft keeps renaming everything. So ... Read more Microsoft 365 vs Office 365 – What is the Difference? Exchange Online Tightens Outbound Limits for New, Trial and EDU Tenants A while back I wrote about the new Exchange Online outbound email limits, better known as the Tenant External Recipient Rate Limit (TERRL). Microsoft is now tightening that limit further, ... Read more Exchange Online Tightens Outbound Limits for New, Trial and EDU Tenants Microsoft is Tracking your Entra ID License Usage – Are You Compliant? Microsoft has started showing license compliance warnings directly on the Conditional Access page in Entra ID. If you’re using more Conditional Access than your P1 licenses cover, you will now ... Read more Microsoft is Tracking your Entra ID License Usage – Are You Compliant? Microsoft Entra ID Is Retiring the MemberOf Rule for Dynamic Groups If you use the MemberOf rule operator in your dynamic groups, this one is going to hurt. Microsoft is ending the MemberOf preview, and every dynamic group, administrative unit, or ... Read more Microsoft Entra ID Is Retiring the MemberOf Rule for Dynamic Groups Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 are both unlimited-seat Enterprise plans, so this comes down to how deep your security and compliance stack needs to go, not how many users you ... Read more Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 Microsoft Entra ID Will Retire SMS and Voice Authentication SMS and voice have been the fallback MFA method for years. Not because they are good, but because they always worked. Everybody has a phone, so everybody can receive a ... Read more Microsoft Entra ID Will Retire SMS and Voice Authentication Microsoft 365 Backup: Recovery Window is Now Configurable If you’ve set up Microsoft 365 Backup, you know the recovery window was one of its bigger limitations, a fixed 1 year, no exceptions. That’s changing. Microsoft is rolling out ... Read more Microsoft 365 Backup: Recovery Window is Now Configurable Microsoft 365 Price Increase 2026: What Changed You have probably already heard about the Microsoft 365 pricing changed on July 1, 2026. What’s less known is that the packaging changed at the same time, so it’s not ... Read more Microsoft 365 Price Increase 2026: What Changed Microsoft 365 Business Standard vs Premium (2026 Update) Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Business Premium look close enough on paper that a lot of people just pick the cheaper one and move on. But for a small extra ... Read more Microsoft 365 Business Standard vs Premium (2026 Update) Microsoft Entra ID SSPR Will Require Registered Authentication Methods If your organization uses Self-Service Password Reset in Microsoft Entra ID, there is a change coming that you need to be aware of. Starting September 7, 2026, SSPR will only ... Read more Microsoft Entra ID SSPR Will Require Registered Authentication Methods Fix: “You are required to register an authentication method to continue, but none have been enabled for this account” You are trying to sign in to Microsoft 365, but getting an error that you need to register an MFA method, but none have been enabled. Which is odd, because ... Read more Fix: “You are required to register an authentication method to continue, but none have been enabled for this account” Fix: You can’t setup Microsoft Authenticator because you already have five authenticator apps or hardware tokens First time trying to sign in to Microsoft 365, but getting the error that you already have five authenticator apps or hardware tokens registered? It’s a classic loophole, and it’s ... Read more Fix: You can’t setup Microsoft Authenticator because you already have five authenticator apps or hardware tokens OneDrive Storage Limits Enforced in June. What you need to Check Microsoft is rolling out an update in the coming weeks that will enforce user storage quotas in OneDrive. Apparently, it was possible to exceed the licensed quota by setting the ... Read more OneDrive Storage Limits Enforced in June. What you need to Check Entra App Instance Lock Enabled by Default in June Microsoft has announced a new security change for Microsoft Entra ID. Starting June 2026, App Instance Lock will be enabled by default for all newly created applications. In this article, ... Read more Entra App Instance Lock Enabled by Default in June New Microsoft Teams Efficiency Mode coming in May Microsoft is going to roll out a new Efficiency Mode for Microsoft Teams in May this year. The new mode is designed for low end devices with limited CPU and ... Read more New Microsoft Teams Efficiency Mode coming in May Microsoft 365 Change Management is Getting an Overhaul If you manage a Microsoft 365 tenant, you are probably familiar with the continuous list of new messages in the Message Center. Even with your preferences set to only show ... Read more Microsoft 365 Change Management is Getting an Overhaul Microsoft 365 Organizational Messages Now Support Email Delivery Microsoft is adding email as a new delivery channel for Organizational Messages in Microsoft 365. If you are not familiar with Organizational Messages yet, it’s a feature that lets admins ... Read more Microsoft 365 Organizational Messages Now Support Email Delivery Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery Microsoft released and enabled a new backup and recovery feature in Microsoft Entra this week. It allows you to recover from malicious attacks or accidental changes by reverting your core ... Read more Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery

Microsoft Entra Passkeys on Windows now Support Phishing-Resistant Sign-In Passkeys on Windows just got a significant upgrade. Microsoft is rolling out support for Microsoft Entra passkeys on Windows, allowing users to create device-bound passkeys stored in the Windows Hello ... Read more Microsoft Entra Passkeys on Windows now Support Phishing-Resistant Sign-In New Microsoft 365 E7 Plan Explained Microsoft has announced a new top-tier enterprise licensing plan: Microsoft 365 E7, also called the Frontier Suite. It will be available from May 1, 2026, and it is the biggest ... Read more New Microsoft 365 E7 Plan Explained Custom names for OneDrive Sync folder A new policy for OneDrive, which will be rolled out mid-march, is going to allow you to change the local OneDrive folder name. The reason for this new policy is ... Read more Custom names for OneDrive Sync folder Microsoft Entra ID Will Auto-Enable Passkey Profiles in March 2026 Microsoft is continuing its push toward passwordless authentication. Starting March 2026, passkey profiles and synced passkeys will reach General Availability in Microsoft Entra ID. If you don’t take action, Microsoft ... Read more Microsoft Entra ID Will Auto-Enable Passkey Profiles in March 2026 Stellar Migrator for Outlook Review – How to Import PST to Office 365 (Step-by-Step) #sponsored PST files never really went away, even though mailbox sizes have increased over the past years, they still keep popping up on file servers, old laptops, or in user ... Read more Stellar Migrator for Outlook Review – How to Import PST to Office 365 (Step-by-Step) How to Enable Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra Id Passkeys are the new standard when it comes to sign-in security. Where we first had passwords and MFA, passkeys are now the best way to secure your account. But the ... Read more How to Enable Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra Id Setting up Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery (SSAR) While we keep hardening our online accounts, which started with MFA and now transition to passwordless with passkeys, recovering your account becomes harder. When a user loses access to their ... Read more Setting up Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery (SSAR) New Exchange Online Auto-Archive Explained Microsoft is currently rolling out a new feature in Exchange Online, Auto-Archive, which is enabled by default. It will automatically start moving the oldest items to the archive for mailboxes ... Read more New Exchange Online Auto-Archive Explained How to Remove Copilot from Edge Copilot is showing up in every Microsoft app these days, including of course their browser Edge. If you want to reduce the amount of unnecessary icons that try to get ... Read more How to Remove Copilot from Edge How to Remove Copilot from Word Microsoft is adding Copilot to pretty much every app they have last couple of months. And while Copilot has it use in some cases, I don’t need it in every ... Read more How to Remove Copilot from Word How Agent ID Secures your AI Agents in Microsoft Entra AI agents are showing up everywhere in Microsoft 365 and Azure. They automate tasks, process data, and can make decisions without a user clicking anything. This creates a new identity ... Read more How Agent ID Secures your AI Agents in Microsoft Entra New Baseline Security Mode for Microsoft 365 Are your Microsoft 365 tenants actually secure, or just secure enough? How confident are you that you didn’t miss any security settings that you need to set as a minimum? ... Read more New Baseline Security Mode for Microsoft 365 Getting started with SharePoint Knowledge Agent Microsoft recently launched Knowledge Agent for SharePoint in Public Preview. This new feature will help optimize your content in SharePoint for Microsoft 365 Copilot, helping Copilot agents to deliver better ... Read more Getting started with SharePoint Knowledge Agent New Browser Policy Breaks OneDrive Web Access An upcoming update in Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge and Chrome, will roll out new privacy controls that tighten the local network access. This is good, but it will impact ... Read more New Browser Policy Breaks OneDrive Web Access How to Change onmicrosoft.com fallback domain name When you create a new Microsoft 365 tenant, or sign up for Azure, you will get a .onmicrosoft.com domain name. Also known as the fallback domain. This domain name allows ... Read more How to Change onmicrosoft.com fallback domain name Microsoft will Auto-Install Companion Apps next Month Microsoft is about to auto-install another app, or actually multiple apps, next month by default on Windows 11 devices that already have Microsoft 365 apps. Just like the upcoming Copilot ... Read more Microsoft will Auto-Install Companion Apps next Month How to Remove Copilot from Outlook Copilot is showing up in more and more Microsoft 365 apps, and Outlook is no exception. While some might find the AI features useful, for many, it just adds clutter ... Read more How to Remove Copilot from Outlook Microsoft 365 Copilot App Will Auto-Install – How to Opt Out These days, you will find Microsoft Copilot in pretty much every mainstream Microsoft product. One place where it isn’t forced yet is Windows, but that is about to change. Microsoft ... Read more Microsoft 365 Copilot App Will Auto-Install – How to Opt Out Microsoft is Retiring the Outlook Lite app The Outlook Like app on Android is not as widely used as the normal Outlook app, but it was a great little app. Microsoft has unfortunately now decided to retire ... Read more Microsoft is Retiring the Outlook Lite app Microsoft Limiting Onmicrosoft Domain for Email Sending Each Microsoft 365 tenant comes with an onmicrosoft.com domain, like lazyadmin.onmicrosoft.com. This domain name is normally only used during the setup phase to quickly create users and allows you to ... Read more Microsoft Limiting Onmicrosoft Domain for Email Sending Microsoft 365 Direct Send Vulnerability: How to Stop Spoofing Inside Your Tenant Direct Send in Microsoft 365 has always been a great solution to let devices or internal apps send emails without authentication to your own users. But recently, this convenience has ... Read more Microsoft 365 Direct Send Vulnerability: How to Stop Spoofing Inside Your Tenant So, about that AdBlocker... Will you consider disabling it? Yes, ads can be annoying. But they allow me to keep writing content like this. 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