How can Microsoft Exchange Online be used for Remote Working?

Microsoft Exchange Online has been really popular amongst remote working employees because of its hosted nature. It is a modern tool that provides messaging services to cater state of the art communication needs. Along with Messaging, you can also be in control of the calendar options, contacts management, and many other similar tasks.

What is an Access Denied error?

Many times, users face an Access is denied error while connecting remotely. A common scenario can be, a user initiates a session to connect to a remote server and while doing so the following error is received.

Connecting to remote server outlook.office365.com failed with the following error message – “Access is denied”

What are the possible reasons for this error?

With the introduction of OAuth 2.0, almost all Microsoft products were shifted to this more secure protocol to cater to modern-day security challenges. This means that the previously deployed Basic Authentication system is discontinued.

To further speed up the process, Microsoft started identifying the tenants under its O365 cloud which were not using Basic Authentication and have stopped/blocked them from using it. Thus, if any tenants are using the Basic Authentication mechanism, it’ll cease to work.

The same might happen with MachPanel users who are using the MachPanel v6 or later in addition to MachPanel’s Exchange Online extension for its CSP Module.

The solution:

To get MachPanel running smoothly with Exchange Online, you need to follow the following steps:

1. In the Tenant you can run this Command Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-List basic*

(You will see the entry/value: 255 which stand for All Basic Authentications Blocked i.e. BasicAuthBlockedApps=255)

2. To change this, you need to login with the Global Admin, then go to the Help section and run this command. After That, you can activate the Basic Authentication.
3. After activating the Basic Authentication for Exchange Online Remote PowerShell and running this Command: Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-List basic*

(You will see the entry/value: 239 which stand for All Basic Authentications Allowed i.e. BasicAuthBlockedApps = 239)

4. Finally, you can now connect via Exchange Online OAuth v1.0

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Cloud Data is Your Responsibility

Whether you are making the shift to the Cloud or setting up the on-premises infrastructure, the responsibility to backup data for later recovery lies with the enterprise. Same is the case for Email data. Thus, it is your IT staff’s responsibility to keep track of backups and retrieve data whenever it is required.

Here are 5 reasons why an email backup solution is necessary and why your organization should go for it.

•         Email us a Ransomware Target

The popularity of Exchange makes it a good target for hacktivists to carry out ransomware attacks within the organization. Mailbox ransomware targets Exchange users and asks for ransom at the cost of their emails and data in email. A good backup will save your organization from huge ransom.

•         Accidental Deletion is Real

No matter how secure you make your on-perm setup, there is no cure to accidental Deletion.  A good Exchange data backup solution lets you recover your lost email data in case of accidently deleting any important files.

•         Accounts can be compromised

For enterprises, there is nothing worse than a compromised account which is a gateway to sensitive business and financial information. In case of a compromised account, especially if the account is a privileged one, the results can be catastrophic for the organization. If the person behind the scene deletes something, the data cannot be recovered absolutely.

•         Inactive users can be very costly

In case of those employees who have left the organization, it is essential to have a backup of their email and data in case it is needed in the future.  Once the backup is taken, the account must be deleted. In case you miss this, you might have to pay for their account license, which can be very costly.

•         IT fosters business continuity plan

In this time of uncertainty, businesses always go for a business continuity plan in order to keep moving in case of a catastrophic hit. Keeping a backup of emails is one way you can keep track of your data while in case of a disaster.

ALSO READ: 10 WAYS MICROSOFT HOSTED EXCHANGE BENEFITS CLOUD BUSINESSES

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With its new release Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft Lync 2013 can also be used form one interface and to run In-Place eDiscovery. So, a different interface is not required for these different platforms and technologies. Among other Microsoft office tool, Exchange has become more recognized and widely used as compared to other products and solutions. Initially, it was designed to perform a function of mailing server and that’s it. But, with the passage of time evolution brought an altogether different concept of Exchange apart from intuitive mailing server. And today, Microsoft Exchange is the most popular windows based corporate solution that empowers communication and collaboration.

Numerous new features are added to 2013 version of Exchange and most importantly for the client end, search function has been improved significantly in order to improve the speed of search and enabling handy retrieval of emails. Higher search speed is always a great benefit since it saves time from being unnecessarily wasted. Data can be searched from every single file that the business has. Therefore, it a lot of storage material has to be gone through, that is not likely to be a hassle any more with Exchange 2013. Apart from this, Microsoft Exchange incorporates, integrated and evolved system, the users are likely to have a good experience using its new and flexibly interface. In short, Exchange 2013 has ended up as a much simpler, faster, secure and easier program to use and is likely to be a beneficial for any business, company or organization in need of a communication and collaborative solution.

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