The Hafnium and other attacks happened against on-premises Exchange servers exposed to the internet, but it’s a wonder why the proverbial penny didn’t fall for tenant administrators to prompt them to query the wisdom of permitting the use of old client technology.
Given the publicity about attacks against Exchange Server earlier this year, it’s remarkable that organizations allow such old client software to remain in active use.
They say that Microsoft customer support teams will reach out to customers still using the old versions to “ help them meet the deadline.” Maybe that’s code for “sell new versions of Outlook.”įigure 1: Outlook 2007 (source: Microsoft) Time to Move to More Secure Protocols Interestingly, Microsoft notes that “ some customers just can’t quit” using Outlook 2007 (Figure 1), Outlook 2010, and earlier versions of Outlook 2013. In this case, if people are using Outlook for Windows clients older than Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 (complete with the latest fixes), they won’t be able to connect to their Exchange Online mailboxes after November 1. As Microsoft notes, “ we are quickly approaching the November 1 deadline…” Time can move slowly when replacing old client versions in IT infrastructures and Outlook is no different. Outlook’s November 1 DeadlineĪll of which brings me to the news that November 1 is the drop-dead date for connectivity for some older Outlook versions. This task is harder than it seems because announcements are spread across the message center in the Microsoft 365 admin center, blog posts issued by individual development groups, plus some corporate news posts. In a nutshell, you need to keep an eye on Microsoft announcements and updates to know when things will happen.
IE11 browser support finishes on J(support already terminated for IE11 in Microsoft 365 on August 17, 2021).A quick browse of recent announcements include: Keeping track of important dates for feature deprecation, retirement, and announcements across an ecosystem like Microsoft 365 can take some effort. Repairing is a waste of time and I'm not even going to bother because it is pointless as it wouldn't make a difference when this is pointing to the registry as the potential culprit.Tracking Important Dates across Microsoft 365 Having these all in one profile is plainly inane. You can set-up email accounts but you're unable to create individual profiles, which is potentially useless when you have different mail providers. If you conduct a search it only brings up one Mail and there should be two. Although, I have noticed that Mail is not even being picked up by Windows search? It should bring up Windows Mail and MS Outlook Mail as well. Normally it would be straight forward Control Panel User Accounts and Family Safety and then click on Mail. This applet should open so can create your profiles. looks like there is a potential registry fault or error here because
I thought that I would take a look at Windows 8.1 just installed office 2013, and went to create my profiles and the Mail Applet to create your profiles doesn't open.