@flaxking said in Office 365 SMTP server not advertising StartTLS:

No idea, we don't manage the client's infrastructure

Then it was definitely the UTM, no question.

Now, we are getting reports from many of our own users that things are getting resolved.

However, not from the person who opened the ticket to us yet, so even our ticket for the issue (and this thread) are "open". There is more tracking in both our tickets and in ML of MS' failures than MS tracks themselves. Doesn't that alone tell us how much MS is trying to falsify the data by closing early before there is a resolution?

When they report on this in the media, they will used those closed tickets as "evidence" of the issue having been resolved earlier than it really is.

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@maxmustermann Since you are openly a vendor we'll keep the post. But as a community we expect vendors to participate generally before posting their solutions where appropriate. These seems like an appropriate place, so not a big deal. And welcome to the community.

We'll add a vendor flag so that it is clear you are a vendor. We normally request that this be done prior to posting any self promotion of products so that people understand when someone is promoting their own solution rather than on they've heard about or tried.

I have a laptop that isn't kicking back that TLS error in that Office tool. I have tried moving another system that does get the TLS error into the same OU as the laptop and ran gpupdate /force and rebooted, also brought Windows fully current and uninstalled Webroot. Can't figure out the difference

@dbeato said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@travisdh1 said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

We have a public folder on Office 365 that is email enabled, the customer would like an auto-response from the public folder. I'm not sure if that is even possible.

Wouldn't that be an auto-response setup from one of the accounts that receives those emails?

Does that work with a public folder?

Yes, with Folder Assistant through Outlook. Otherwise you can create a rule for incoming emails through Office 365 to accomplish that too.

Yeah, seems... poor. Found this for doing it through Outlook, which would be unreliable and clearly not useful.

https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/setting-public-folder-auto-reply/

@mrwright4hire said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

@dbeato said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

@mrwright4hire said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

A few users are having issues sending out emails. Not everytime, but intermittent. Has anyone experienced this type of issue before? I can use all the help I can get. I would like to know how to release the emails and avoid emails getting stuck again.

In advanced, thank you for your efforts.

Have any of your users been not able to send at all? I am not seeing that right now.

Great question dbeato! Here's the thing, I myself tried to email the same address while monitoring it from Barracuda. Nothing showed up as going out. It's strange cause we received email from the address.

So it is on the received end of Barracuda?

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@dustinb3403 said in How Do You Stop Office 365 Low Severity Alert Emails:

As a general thought on this, automatic mail forwarding could be a compliance issue, so make sure to keep this in mind before you go turning off alerts that might be a compliance issue later on. . .

Automatic mail forwarding is a "every few hours" task. So these alerts are a ridiculous amount of crying wolf. It's created a "zero belief" system in MS alerts. At this point, there are no alerts, just spam, is how it is seen.

@matteo-nunziati said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

@scottalanmiller said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

@obsolesce said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

You can right-click on the mailbox, or a folder, and in properties, you can see how much data is there versus on the Exchange server.

Most is there, for sure. But definitely not "all".

Confirm. I got always this end result. This is just best effort. Not complete at all.

That's just crappy, especially as Microsoft themselves recommend it.

@coliver said in Receipt Logs for Office 365 Emails:

@momurda said in Receipt Logs for Office 365 Emails:

@coliver This is done whenever MS feels like it, yes? I mean, you may not get the results for a while.

Nope it's done whenever you submit the search. It's stupid powerful. I do one at least once a week and never have had to wait more then a few minutes.

Yep, that’s my experience as well.

You can use Powershell as well

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity username -AutoReplyState disabled

@jaredbusch said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

@scottalanmiller said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

@kelly said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

The period notation is really annoying for me. I signed up [email protected] when it was in beta and this "feature" wasn't publicized. Years later someone else was able to register [email protected] and now I get DoTerra order details and the like. I have no idea what I don't get at this point.

Don't know about a period notation feature. What does that do? And how do that not break email globally?

The same way that + doesn't break it. It is outside of the RFC altogether. So as long as wtf ever service you sign up for lets you type it, then you can do it.

As for what it does. Well [email protected] is a common thing. But someone that signs up to gmail with [email protected] can also receive email from email sent to [email protected] or even [email protected].

Google simply ignore all periods on the left of the @ for gmail based email addresses. Gmail only, not GSuite.

Wow, that's.... weird. I guess it works until they do something like the story above and screw it up.

@brrabill said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:

@brrabill said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:

Hmmm, sounds like one of those "MS messed up" scenarios we were discussing in the backup thread(s).

Yes, but it's also a "it didn't lose them their data" because they had local copies, scenarios we were also discussing. So a good example of both.

Actually it sounded like MS found them and put them back.

Local copies would also have been removed if they were "deleted" at the MS side.

Good point. The real problem here is the "customer shaming" that MS always does. Anytime MS is at fault, they try to shame the customer. Whether it is through official channels or "look the other way" as their engineers go into communities and do it. MS employees are out there attacking any customer that dares to mention that they've had a problem.

Like in this thread. Even once MS had admitted the mistake, and fixed it, an MS employee was still on the offensive trying to shame the customer and went ballistic once it was obvious he didn't even know how MS products worked.

@obsolesce said in Standard Email Signatures in Office 365 with Embedded Images:

@pete-s you need to fix that...

Done.

@travisdh1 You are sure right there

This would work on prem exchange. Probably works with a tweak for o365.
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@aaronstuder : After several minute delays between their replies, they'll eventually give you a phone number to call instead...

@scottalanmiller Perhaps they did at one time, but selected the option to not show it again.

I have seen this before and it is usually with IE or Edge and can login on Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. I also try to clear all the user sessions via powershell.