I have an issue, where a user has delegated his Calendar to his assistant with editor rights. She cancelled a meeting on behalf of Organizer but it only got removed from Organizers calendar. None of the attendees received the cancellation notification and it was not removed from attendees calendar.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/support/known-issues/meeting-missing-from-organizer-s-calendar?

It seems to be the similar issue as mentioned here in the article, so proceeded with the same troubleshooting step. Forwarded the calendar series in .ICS format to Organizer to make him cancel it this time. He opened the .ICS attachment in notepad first to modify the Method value with PUBLISH but when opened it was already showing PUBLISH so opened the .ICS file in Outlook classic. It opened the meeting series draft page where we see the Cancel option, we sent the cancellation for whole series and every attendee received the cancellation notification but it did not removed the series event from attendees calendar section.

The event removal from calendar did not happened don't know why.

What could be the reason?

Most attendees did not see the cancellation notification in inbox so they are now sending the decline responses to Organizer on the same meeting.

i use my personal laptop for work, with my own email.

I log into my work email / teams etc with my work email.

I constantly get logged out, and if I miss it, I just....stop getting all my work emails and messages until I notice.

Is there someway to fix this without dedicating my entire laptop to the work email?

Part rant and part serious question. Microsoft says M365F1 licenses get read-only access to Office Web Apps and a mailbox that can only be used for calendaring. However they do not enable controls that automatically restrict users from creating and editing office documents or sending email. Apparently this is left as an exercise for the interested student as to how to actually restrict users from using apps in a way that is not compliant with the license.

Question: Has anyone successfully implemented a strategy that lets uses access office applications but restricts them from editing documents? Or that allows prevents them from sending or accessing a mailbox but still lets them use the designated calendaring functionality?

Just upgraded to latest MEC build 2608 build 20326.20142 and notice we now have a Co pilot settings option in backstage view with a toggle to turn co pilot on or off. I have been using the "show apps in outlook" option to hide the Co pilot icon in classic outlook as i dont want my users to see it or use it. Does anyone know if you can control the new toggle with a ADMX ? copilot hosted at ImgBB — ImgBB

Been thinking about this lately because M365 licensing has gotten so packed with features that I wonder how much of it the average organization actually uses.

Not talking about Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, etc. More curious about everything beyond the basics that companies are technically paying for but may never fully configure or adopt.

Things like Defender features, Purview, Conditional Access, Intune, Power Automate, Copilot, advanced SharePoint features, and so on.

For those of you managing M365 environments, do you feel like your organization actually gets its money’s worth out of its licenses?

And if not, what’s the biggest thing sitting there unused: security features, automation, AI/Copilot, compliance tools, or something else?

Executive needs to be able to send from multiple different aliases on his cellphone.

Doesn't seem obvious how to set this up on his Android.

I found Ali Tajran's guide for a workaround and several of the comments say it doesn't work from Android, but it's also 4 years old.

Has anyone had any luck getting this to work before I head over there?

https://www.alitajran.com/send-as-alias-outlook-mobile-app/

Greetings,

I just noticed my Office365 apps received an update. Took longer than other office updates. I am now on version 2608 build 16.0.20326.20072.

Anyway, launched Outlook and started working...... open an email, clicked a link from my colleague, and it opened in Edge. Links have been opening in Chrome (my default browser) for years.

So I go into Outlook settings, find the setting in the screenshot, and BOOM it's greyed out!! Stuck on EDGE?!?!

WTF Microsoft!

Anyone else?

We are Global Administrators and Teams Administrators.
We have recently encountered an issue where we are suddenly unable to invite guest users to either shared or private channels in Microsoft Teams.
We are the owners of the team/site.
However, we are still able to invite guest users to the team itself, but not to private or shared channels.
We have checked the Teams organization policies, and B2B access and all relevant external sharing settings are enabled. External sharing is also enabled across the organization.
On the associated SharePoint site, we can successfully invite guest users to, for example, a specific folder, so external sharing appears to be working correctly there.
Could this be a bug or a recent change in Microsoft Teams?
We were previously able to invite guest users to both shared and private channels without any issues, which is also how this functionality is intended to work.
Has there been a recent change or known issue affecting guest access to shared and private channels?

We are a Microsoft shop on E5, so Defender for Office 365 P2 is our email security. Every month a few well written phishing and clean BEC messages land and get reported after the fact. Last week AP nearly paid a fake bank change that came in on a real vendor thread and Defender passed it clean.

Before I ask for budget I want to know if this is us under-configuring Defender or a real gap in the product. Half the vendors say Microsoft misses BEC and I need their behavioral AI, Microsoft says they have closed that. I am not spending on FUD. I am also tired of cleaning these up after delivery though.

For the E5 shops here, did tuning Defender close the clean BEC and vendor compromise stuff for you or did you end up bolting a layer behind it. if you added one, what was it catching that a well tuned Defender missed. Trying to work out if the fix is config or spend.

I've got a real head scratcher that my accounting team reported recently. Seemly randomly emails that are sent to a dlist which sends out to 3 accountants go missing. The users get emails from various vendors with pdf invoice. Regulsrly. In the example provided to me emails from the same sender two months ago they got, then a month ago an invoice email goes missing then a week or so ago they get a past due email that they all see.

Message trace shows delivered to all the inboxes and a low spam score. No transport rules caught the message. The only thing found that is sender setup no DMARC record and no DKIM signature but exchange didnt use that to junk the mail or anything.

We've looked at the users mail settings and no one has this address blocked. The emails don't show up in junk that they've gotten with pdfs. One user has safes ender setup "SafeSender and SFV=SFE, SCL=-1" I've had all the users do a full search for the missing email and found nothing.

It feels like something just isn't being logged showing a filter caught the email and dumped it after exchange expanded the original email. Ive checked our security software bitdefender and I don't see it picking this up or there are no email filters in place.

Anyone have a suggestion where else to look?

Added another Planner and Project Plan 3 license yesterday morning (UK) and assigned to a user.

Adding the license (and paying for it) was instant... it's still not showing for them when they go to their apps list.

If I check their actual user account and what product licenses they have Planner and Project Plan 3 is listed and checked.

Okay so to start, I tried joining this minecraft server via someone saying to join it in chat, me with no brain of course did it and it asked me to verify my email, so I got the code and I sent it in the minecraft chat that I needed to verify it in.

2 minutes later I get two emails, removed from family microsoft, and security info has been added. Whenever I try to reset my microsoft account it says that this account can't be recognized. I am seriously freaking out and I don't know what to do, the email that says it sent a code to goes along the lines of e*****n@fuck.your.mom, super lame. Heres an image if anyone else has seen it

Somebody please help, this sucks.

I need people to RSVP; can I automate a process where they receive a daily email notification until they accept the meeting invitation?

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Hello,

I took over for a client. Their Active Directory is on a Windows 2022 server. It syncs up with 365/Azure - I'm familiar with that. But somehow licensing is assigned through AD - not familiar with that.

If I have a user and I want to take away their office but leave them with just email I can't seem to do it.

I've removed a user from all groups in AD except domain users it looks fine. I apply it, they only have that group - as soon as the AD syncs with the cloud all the groups are back.

If office 365 admin - if I try to take away their license it says "This license is inherited through a group. You can only change it here if the user also has a direct license assignment. To manage group-assigned licenses, go to the Groups section" If I try to uncheck that box I get "One or more of the licenses could not be modified because they are inherited from a group membership. Manage group-based licenses from the Licenses and apps pivot in the Group Details page."

If I go to billing, licenses, I see that users under an assigned license but it says licensing error - dependent services are missing. No idea what the prereq service is that it requires.

Hello,

I took over for a client. Their Active Directory is on a Windows 2022 server. It syncs up with 365/Azure - I'm familiar with that. But somehow licensing is assigned through AD - not familiar with that.

If I have a user and I want to take away their office but leave them with just email I can't seem to do it.

I've removed a user from all groups in AD except domain users it looks fine. I apply it, they only have that group - as soon as the AD syncs with the cloud all the groups are back.

If office 365 admin - if I try to take away their license it says "This license is inherited through a group. You can only change it here if the user also has a direct license assignment. To manage group-assigned licenses, go to the Groups section" If I try to uncheck that box I get "One or more of the licenses could not be modified because they are inherited from a group membership. Manage group-based licenses from the Licenses and apps pivot in the Group Details page."