
M365 Roundup, March 2025: Exchange Starts Counting Your Outbound Email
Exchange Online enforces tenant-wide outbound email limits, E5 Security arrives as a Business Premium add-on, and the Report Message add-in enters maintenance mode.
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Exchange Online enforces tenant-wide outbound email limits, E5 Security arrives as a Business Premium add-on, and the Report Message add-in enters maintenance mode.

Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies start auto-enforcing after 45 days, Skype interop in Teams dies May 1, and Hotpatch hits preview. The February 2025 changes, sorted by deadline.

Users refuse enrollment, admins refuse open access. Intune app protection policies plus one Conditional Access rule protect Microsoft 365 data on personal phones without managing the device.

New Outlook migration turns opt-out for SMBs in January 2025, monthly billing on annual terms gets a 5% markup, Viva Goals gets a retirement date, and Teams ships ten quality-of-life features.

Copilot agents reach general availability, Teams adds impersonation warnings for external chat, a new calendar lands in January, and Office 2016/2019 get one year of support left.

Copilot Wave 2 ships Pages, Python in Excel, and SharePoint agents; Microsoft starts enforcing MFA for admin portals on October 15, 2024; Teams and Intune stack up quality-of-life updates.

Copilot picks up enterprise data protection and usage APIs, Autopatch and WUfB-DS merge into one service, Entra ships AiTM detection and FIDO2 provisioning, and Teams adds CAPTCHA for anonymous joins.

Mailbox full tickets do not need an Exchange Online Plan 2 upsell. Online archiving plus auto-expanding archive grows a mailbox to 1.5TB on licensing many tenants already own.

July 2024 ships the new Microsoft Entra Suite, auto-enables Microsoft-managed MFA Conditional Access policies, archives unlicensed OneDrive accounts after 90 days, and adds dynamic watermarking and scheduled Copilot prompts.

June 2024 brings token protection and the Entra PowerShell module to preview, hardware-backed device attestation and Config Refresh in Intune, expanded Copilot prerequisites, and a batch of Teams and Outlook updates.

Teams unbundles from Microsoft 365 worldwide, Exchange Online announces a 2,000 external recipient limit and the end of Basic auth SMTP, and Copilot reaches more SKUs. April 2024, by product.

Copilot for Security goes GA April 1 with pay-as-you-go pricing, NCE subscriptions become transferable mid-term, Restricted SharePoint Search arrives, and Teams ships voice isolation.