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한국어Exchange Online
Product
The cloud email, calendar and contacts service in Microsoft 365. Outlook connects to it, and mail flow rules, anti-phishing and retention policies are managed around it.
| Type | Product |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Outlook, Exchange |
| Website | www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/exchange/email |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com/exchange |
| Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server |
| Released | 2011-06 |
| Licence | included in Microsoft 365 |
Sessions on this topic (4)
- Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations: Critical Decisions and Lessons from the Field · Peter Schmidt · M365Con 2027
- Custom Domains in Microsoft 365: Beyond Email — Identity, Security & Trust · Nsikan Ikpe · M365Con 2027
- Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations: Critical Decisions and Lessons from the Field · Peter Schmidt · M365Con 2027
- Custom Domains in Microsoft 365: Beyond Email — Identity, Security & Trust · Nsikan Ikpe · M365Con 2027
Developed by
- Microsoft · Organization
Is a
- Microsoft tool · Category
- Collaboration tool · Category
Part of
- Microsoft 365 · Platform
Related to
- Microsoft Outlook · Product
- Outlook on the web · Product
- Microsoft Bookings · Product
- Tenant-to-tenant migration · Concept
- Custom domain in Microsoft 365 · Concept
- Nsikan Ikpe · Person
- Peter Schmidt · Person
Covered by
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS-900) · Certification
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102) · Certification
Latest update
Outlook: Emails marked with External to be supported as Rules conditions
The External tag on an email, set by the ExternalInOutlook feature, will now be usable as a condition in Outlook Inbox Rules. This change also makes available the ability to create or modify these Rules on the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook Web, and Outlook for Mac.
GA: June CY2026
Older updates (4)
Exchange: Dynamic distribution groups now populate membership faster on creation and modification
We're updating dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) in Exchange Online to make group membership available sooner after creation or a filter change. For DDGs with 5,000 members or fewer, membership is now populated as part of the creation or modification operation — no more waiting up to 2 hours.
GA: May CY2026
Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365
High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online.
GA: March CY2026 · Preview: April CY2024
Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities
Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. IB v2 upgrade will be opt-in.
GA: January CY2027 · Preview: October CY2025
Exchange: Exchange Online Moderation approval requests via Actionable Messages
The Exchange Online Moderation feature gives message moderators the ability to Approve or Reject sending a moderated message to its intended recipients via a special email message form that includes Approve and Reject buttons in the Outlook Desktop or Outlook on the web toolbar. However, the ability to approve or reject a moderated message currently isn't supported on Outlook for iOS, Outlook for Android, or Outlook for Mac. With this update to use Actionable Messages for moderation approval messages, moderators with mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online will now be able to approve or reject moderated messages via all the Microsoft email…
GA: March CY2026
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