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

MACHPANEL AUTOMATION MODULE FOR HOSTED MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

MachPanel provides top-notch solutions for all your Cloud computing needs. It offers easy Microsoft Exchange deployment equipped with after-sales support. The user-friendly interface and stability make it the favorite of Telcos and Hosting Providers.

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Bridging the gaps to become a successful Microsoft CSP

Partners are striving to meet the requirements set by Microsoft for Microsoft CSPs all over the world. The cloud and the Edge are two powerful components of how businesses make use of the internet today. A Microsoft CSP Program is needed to make sure you are right on spot and updated with the latest happenings from Microsoft. 

How many Partners Types are there?

There are three different types of Partners under the Microsoft CSP Program:

• CSP Direct Bill Partners

CSP Direct Bill Partners have been able to purchase third-party and first-party offers from Microsoft Marketplace. Once purchased, you can now sell them further to your customers. There are a few requirements to become a direct Bill Partner like the ability to provide first-level cloud support to your customer and have an infrastructure in place for customer billing management.

• CSP Indirect Providers

These are also called Distributors. They can also purchase first and third-party offers from Marketplace, however, they can also integrate these offers into their own and resell them to their clients. Again, customer support and billing infrastructure requirements are there for Indirect Providers.

• CSP indirect resellers

These Partners do not have a direct relationship with Microsoft, rather, they depend on indirect providers for transactions in Microsoft CSP Program. They are able to offer managed services and billing services to customers. 

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How MachPanel helps CSPs with its Automation Module for Microsoft CSP?

MachPanel is a great place for CSPs to learn ways to master CSP requirements. MachPanel makes your CSP journey easier and manageable. 

• Enjoy End to end Automation for your CSP business

To work smart, you need to know where to invest. Automation is one key element that makes your business journey smooth and easy. MachPanel offers the entire lifecycle automation of your CSP business including Microsoft Office 365, Azure Provisioning, Microsoft Hosted Exchange offering, SharePoint deployment and much more!

• Smooth showcasing, bundling, and selling of your offerings

With a Marketplace at hand, it’ll be a lot easier for you to showcase your products and offerings to your clients. Get complete control over subscriptions and plans with MachPanel through the white-labeled customized storefront. 

• Easy Billing setup and management

Financial operations are streamlined via MachPanel’s billing automation. You can directly bill to customers alongside consolidated and unified invoices to make the billing process going smoothly.

With an intuitive user interface, MachPanel is easy to use and manage. Start your CSP journey with MachPanel today and take your CSP business to greater heights.

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Hosted Exchange – Email Hosting for Business

Running a cloud business requires smart moves at the right time. Shifting to Hosted Exchange is your key to modernity. Let’s look at the top 10 ways your customers can benefit from Hosted Exchange. 

• Unified admin center makes management easier: an easy to use web-based interface provides smoother management

• Maximum uptime (99/9%): Hosted Exchange is your reliable solution for email services that are always up and running.

• Stress-free security measures: latest security standards are implemented with advanced protection against threats. Active email protection helps your email conversations with built-in defense.

• Unified access: You can access email all across your devices. There is also a feature of Unified Contact Store. 

• Integration with outlook makes tasks smoother: If you are used to your normal outlook way, you can easily integrate with Hosted Exchange.

• The support is there to back you up: Microsoft offers 24/7 support for Hosted Exchange procedures like migration and deployment.

• Have Better control over your environment:  Cloud works best if you have full control over it. Hosted Exchange provides you this control to stay ahead of the curve

• Disaster recovery – at your fingertips: Disaster recovery is essential in this era of cyber threats. Microsoft deploys reliable and trusted DR solutions with its global redundant servers. 

• Multi-Geo Capabilities in Microsoft 365 ease global data management: This feature is available for Exchange and OneDrive to manage the company’s global data residency 

• eDiscovery options: Microsoft Exchange offers eDiscovery which allows easy in Place eDiscovery running across SharePoint, Exchange and Microsoft Teams, from a single interface.

ALSO READ: GETTING STARTED WITH REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES 2019 DEPLOYMENT

MachPanel Automation Module for Hosted Microsoft Exchange

MachPanel is a one-stop solution for all your Cloud computing needs. IT offers easy Microsoft Exchange deployment equipped with after-sales support. The user-friendly interface and stability make it the favorite of Telcos and Hosting Providers. 

Stay ahead of the curve and make your work life easier by offering best hosted Exchange with MachPanel.

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Hosted Exchange 2019 has come up with improved new features including efficient security and performance, improved search options making it easier to find what is required, scheduling features with updated calendars time zones, and text-to-speech option which make emails to be read for you. There are several managed cloud-based email hosting options, but Microsoft Hosted Exchange is dominant in the market due to its attractive features. This software runs on the server and controls all the emails, everything such as outgoing, incoming, and drafts get saved with this software on the server. Exchange is used to centralize every email in a single database. Instead of asking a web-hosting company to manage emails and store them on your computer, Microsoft Exchange assists in managing and back up emails on the server.

Expanding businesses may face issues in scaling up or down in-house Hosted Exchange because it has a limitation due to the capacity of the server. By having hosted Exchange service providers can ensure the space and the availability of the resources. It also facilitates users in case of the migration of offices. Hosted Exchange assists businesses in lowering the overall cost. Hosted Exchange, Infrastructure charges, maintenance fees, and the per-user cost rises quickly in case of in-house setup. Specifically for small businesses paying per month is far less expensive than hosting an in-house Hosted Exchange Solution. Hosted Exchange prevents the organizations from mistakenly sending information by employees to unauthorized people. Hosted Exchange is capable of identifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive information by analyzing full-text content in depth. This thing helps the service provider to offer their services and generate handsome revenue.

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Hosted Exchange offers the better opportunity of better customizing email service according to the customer need and allows to set pricing. Again, it is complementary add-ons like email encryption, archiving, and UCaaS- provide the option to make solution bundles that can be priced depending on values delivered. Hosted Exchange networks are designed to reduce email downtime. Highly protected and geographically scattered data centers make sure 99.9% uptime. Upgrades and security patches are managed by service providers to run the network smoothly. In-house, infrastructure management requires considerable investment for hardware and infrastructure. It also requires space and dedicated IT support for an in-house server. Data loss is another factor specifically in disaster situations. These factors create opportunities for the service providers to offer their services.

MACHPANEL AUTOMATION MODULE FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

The MachPanel automation module for Microsoft Exchange provides entire automation either you are using standalone or multi-datacenter. MachPanel provides you full control over managing, selling, and billing entirely segregated hosted Exchange 2019, 2016 and 2013. Service providers can take full benefit of this Panel providing full automation. By using MachPanel Service Providers can have great control over customers unique needs, they can deal with varying conditions efficiently. Underactive development, MachPanel also offers excellent after-sales support. The multi-tenant Control Panel of MachPanel for Hosted Exchange is known because of its flexibility, user-friendliness, stability and overall functionality in managing mail domains, contacts, mailboxes, and public folders that make it a perfect option for Hosting Service Provider. MachPanel comes with the Migration utilities to import information of existing customers into MachPanel that cut short your time.

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Office 365 plans for Exchange Online

If you plan to migrate to Exchange Online anytime soon, you must take into account one of the office 365 subscription plan from a list of plans provided by Microsoft. Every Exchange Online user is assigned to some subscription plan. Plans like Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise F1 and Office 365 Enterprise E5 are offered with multiple options according to your cloud business needs. Once you subscribe to a plan, you get access to your own mailbox. All the messages and folders in your mailbox are now hosted at Exchange Server running at Microsoft datacenter.

Exchange Web Services (EWS)

This is another feature to look forward to while shifting to Exchange Online. Exchange Web Services (EWS) is a reliable API for working with mailbox content. This API has many benefits over other APIs. Like it has its own personation model which favors the developers while utilizing this API. EWS is also language independent. It’s got almost all features necessary for client applications, therefore it is quite robust.

Microsoft Exchange Public Folders

Information sharing is essential in every system. When shifting to Exchange Online, you will experience more control over information sharing. The Public Folders feature is designed to achieve information sharing in a streamlined manner. It makes Outlook users access common folders and share information from these folders. Access on Public folders can be controlled by Admins as they can assign permissions. With Microsoft Exchange Public Folders, you can:

• Make use of Mail-enabled Public Folders
• Have separate folders for each project to stay more organized
• Create custom templates for automatic replies
• Make calendars and track your team’s progress
• Add permissions to each folder and many more

MachPanel Automation module for Exchange Server

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) designed to provide you with best business automation solution for your cloud business. MachPanel’s Automation module for Exchange offers standalone, highly available or multi-datacenter Exchange deployments and makes provisioning, management, selling and billing much simpler for your cloud business. There is ardent customer support and most user-friendly control panel which offers stability, flexibility and comprehensive functionality to manage mail domains, mailboxes, distribution lists, contacts, public folders for your Exchange Online. This cut shorts your time to market and so you can focus more on the growth and scalability of your business rather than operation hassles.

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The easy to use interface let customers add and manage Mailboxes, Contacts, Distribution lists, Public Folders, Retention Policies, and Spam Filters etc. and provide them with anywhere access to email, calendar, and contacts on all major browsers. The user friendly web interface allows the providers, resellers and the end-users to perform routine management task without the need of going at the exchange server or active directory.

• Mail Flow Setting: It makes Mail forwarding to Contacts, Distribution Lists and other Mailboxes very easy.

• Email Addresses: The user friendly interface for adding Email address for Mailbox users.
• Archive Management: You can avail the email archiving feature which allows you to store your customers email in compliance with all data storage legislation.
• Unified Messaging: Unified Messaging is now considered a component or sub feature of the voice-related features that are offered in Exchange 2013\2016 and all Unified Messaging components—including dial plans, auto attendants, UM mailbox policies are supported. Unified Messaging makes it possible for Exchange administrators to combine voice messaging and email messaging into one mailbox in MachPanel.
• Journaling: Journaling can help your Customer organization respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements.
• Calendar Permissions: Calendar Permission feature allows to you manage User Mailbox Calendar as well as Room\Resource Mailbox users within an Exchange organization if the owner of the mailbox grants the appropriate permissions. Permission levels can be set to allow others to read or create items.
• Mobile Device Management: With mobile device policies, you can create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remove confidential company data from lost phones.

Exchange Module facilitate it’s Exchange providers by offering brief SPLA and Usage Reports, Spam Experts, Mailbox Templates, Public Folder Mailbox and many other feature along with the ability to manage those and is fully Multi-tenant. We are constantly adding new features as per demand in the industry. The Exchange Databases section located in the navigation pane of the “Exchange Hosting” aids Exchange providers to host Mailboxes for a particular customer on a separate Database along with adding new Databases and move Mailboxes from one Database to another. The Public Folder Mailbox Management has been added recently thus improving the public folder hierarchy. Many of customers were facing issues when creating Public Folders that there is no Active Public Folders Mailbox exists now you can add PFM without logging into Exchange servers.

Moreover discover various Group Actions that can be performed from the Web interface requires minimal time, lessened manual effort and thus enhancing it capability of handling tons of users without having any performance issue.  In case your live user ran into some issues such as accidental removal or you have made any changes at your exchange server directly then MachPanel also provides sync from backend. If users are accidently remove\deleted, you can restore at your Exchange server and sync inside MachPanel Exchange without affecting any Mailbox. Exchange Plans\Packages can handle selling of widely used options such as Litigation Hold, Mobile Device, Application Impersonation, Microsoft SPLA types, Outlook Permissions, OWA access Settings, as per your business pursuits. You can separately charge your customers for Shared \ Resource Mailbox with the help of Add-ons.

It’s easier than ever to provide your users with the business email, and automatic provisioning of accounts. Thus MachPanel provides comprehensive automation solution for Microsoft Exchange.

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The cutting edge corporate productivity solutions rolled out by Microsoft are essentially important for every organization seeking growth and to streamline its communication along with measuring returns on investments. MachPanel’s current release manifolds integration and comprehensive support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Switch for in built multi-tenancy allowing you to enjoy extensive flexibility, reliability, management, compliance and security.

“We constantly strive to bring you the top-notch solutions for SaaS and Cloud. In MachPanel v.4.2, we are not only supporting latest Microsoft products but also extending its functionality by integrating various other tools and applications, like support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Mode, and various other enhancements. We are confident in MachPanel’s v.4.2, being a Complete Automation Control Panel for your hosting business needs.” says Max Roosenbrand, CEO and Chairman of MachSol Inc.

About MachSol Inc.

MachSol is a developer of MachPanel®, the automation business solution for building, supplying and managing private, public and hybrid clouds. It provides self-service control panels to both provider and their customers. Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) and Telecom companies uses MachPanel® for cloud enabled hosted services platform delivering hosted Exchange, BlackBerry, CRM, SharePoint, Lync/OCS, Hyper-V and Web services.  We offer our clients a unique competitive advantage, powerful global brand, our extraordinary competence in technology and design and the many synergies with our channels and partners.

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• – Roles selection and installation during deployment
• – Improvement in CAS (Client Access Server)
  • – Self-Signed Certificates
  • – Exchange Sync
  • – OWA Enhancements
  • – Reset Virtual Directory
  • – Client Throttling Polices
  • -E tc.
• – Permissions and Transport Functionality Enhancements
• – Unified Messaging Serve Role Improvements
• – Multi-Tenancy Support

If you look at older versions of Exchange like Exchange 2003, that was purely for organizational use that is technically On-Premises flavor of Exchange and similarly, Exchange 2007 too. But, with MachPanel each version of Exchange can be fully segregated in order to exploit advantages of multi-tenancy. Furthermore, the release of Exchange 2010 which was once again aimed at organizational use i.e On-Premises can be fully used as multi-tenant flavor of Exchange via MachPanel. So, what this mean to you; if you are using Exchange 2010 and you need to manage it with a lot comfort via user friendly interface you need to have a control panel in place either you have deployed Exchange On-Premises or seeking multi-tenancy within organizational deployment.
Later on, the release of Exchange 2010 SP1 made the life of hosters a lot easier who sell Hosted Exchange because Microsoft shipped it with default multi-tenancy feature via Hosting Switch or Hosting Mode. The enhancements shipped in SP1, may require you to change and manage a lot of aspect if you are selling hosted Exchange or on-premises flavor. However, with MachPanel you would have nothing to do except making clicks in order to manage and control. MachPanel, not only provisions Exchange 2010 On-Premises but with Hosting Mode enabled or using Hosting Switch with complete support of multi-tenancy and new features introduced by Exchange 2010 SP1 and allows you to enjoy extensive flexibility, reliability, management, compliance and security.

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