Exchange Online
The latest Exchange Online coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Millions of Outlook Rules Are Failing Silently—Here’s How to Fix Yours
Outlook rules—those handy little automations that sort, forward, and mark emails—are breaking for users across every version of Microsoft’s email client, from the shiny new Outlook for Windows...
Microsoft Gives IT Admins Extra Six Months to Replace Exchange Online PowerShell Password Scripts
The cutoff for using stored credentials in Exchange Online automation is moving from July 2026 to December 2026, Microsoft confirmed in an updated Message Center advisory on July 16. The change...
Microsoft Restarts Planner Rollout in New Outlook, Tightening Task and Inbox Integration
Microsoft is resuming the rollout of Planner inside the new Outlook for Windows, placing team and personal task management directly into the email client after a two-month pause. The integration,...
Exchange Online DLP to Get Granular Failure Handling: Preview Starts This Month
Microsoft is gearing up to release a long-awaited refinement to its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) engine in Exchange Online: the ability to craft distinct policies for different types of content-scan...
Microsoft’s Cross-Tenant Message Recall for Exchange Online Arrives in August
Microsoft announced on July 10, 2026, that Exchange Online will gain a cross-tenant message recall feature, rolling out in mid-August. The new capability allows a sender in one Microsoft 365 tenant...
Microsoft 365 Backup to Automate Protection Across All Workloads with Unified Policies in July 2026
Microsoft is readying a significant update to its Microsoft 365 Backup service that will let administrators create a single policy to protect Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint...
Microsoft’s August surprise: Graph archive access lands just before EWS shutdown
Microsoft has quietly filled a critical gap in its Exchange Online modernization plan. On July 7, 2026, the company added a new feature to its Microsoft 365 Roadmap (ID 567313) that will let...
Outlook on the Web Gets ‘Reply with Template’ Rule, Slated for September 2026
Microsoft has added a long-requested automation feature to its Microsoft 365 roadmap: the ability for Outlook on the web to automatically reply to emails using a predefined template. The feature,...
Microsoft Will Disable Exchange Web Services in Two Phases Starting October 2026 — Here’s How to Prepare
Microsoft has set a firm deadline for the retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online, with global disablement beginning in October 2026 and a full shutdown by April 2027. The move forces...
CVE-2026-54998: Why Microsoft's Confidence Rating is Critical for Exchange Online EoP Defense
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published CVE-2026-54998, a new elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability affecting Exchange Online. What makes this disclosure different from the...
Centralized Email Signature Governance in Microsoft 365: The Overlooked Compliance Shield
Email signatures are the digital equivalent of a business card handed out millions of times a day—yet for most organizations, they remain a chaotic, ungoverned afterthought. ITPro’s newly...
Microsoft Confirms Bug in Legacy Outlook for Mac That Blanks Email Body When Replying or Forwarding
A frustrating bug in legacy Outlook for Mac has been confirmed by Microsoft, causing the original message body to vanish whenever a user replies to or forwards an email. The confirmation came on June...