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Message center announcements, September 20-26, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Exchange Online and Basic Auth – September 2021 Update Act by: October 22 MC286990 | September 23 - We're making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols, and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants, but not disable Basic Authentication for any in-use protocols until further notice. Today, we are announcing that we are restarting the program to end the use of Basic Auth in Exchange Online. Beginning October 1, 2022, we will... View more (Updated) Important updates are available for Microsoft To Do apps Act by: October 31 MC280287 | September 23 - Updated September 23, 2021: Reminder to update Microsoft To Do apps (Android, iOS, Windows and Mac) and Outlook apps(Android and iOS) to the latest available version befo

  Exchange Online and Basic Auth – September 2021 Update MC286990 · HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. We're making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols, and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants, but not disable Basic Authentication for any in-use protocols until further notice. Today, we are announcing that we are restarting the program to end the use of Basic Auth in Exchange Online. Beginning October 1, 2022, we will begin to disable Basic Auth in all tenants, regardless of usage. We previously communicated this change via several Message Center posts: MC191153 (Sept. ‘19), MC204828 (Feb. ‘20), MC208814 (April ‘20) and MC237741 (Feb. ‘21) and you can always read the latest information about our plans to turn off Basic Authentication here . Beginning early 2022, as we roll out the changes necessary to

Message center announcements, September 13-19, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Anti-malware policy : Common attachment filter : Additional file types block by default MC285906 | September 18 - The 'Common attachment filter' option in the 'Anti-malware' policy helps the Administrator configure the file types (based on file extension) which need to be blocked in the emails. This block action is applied anytime the file type of any attachment in the email matches this configurated file type list. The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are... View more Join meetings anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds) MC285905 | September 18 - Today, if you want to join a meeting hosted in a different cloud to one of your tenant, you are directed to use the Teams web experience. We are improving the exper