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Microsoft 365 Exchange Web Services retiring, with traffic migrating to the Microsoft Graph API ahead of the August 2026 action deadline

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Exchange Web Services Retires: The August 2026 Deadline

Microsoft begins blocking Exchange Web Services on October 1, 2026 and disables it permanently on April 1, 2027. For financial institutions still...

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Three-stage diagram showing a password-protected closing package that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 cannot scan, moving to a quarantine folder with an off-by-default admin toggle

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Defender's New Password-Protected Attachment Quarantine: What Lenders Should Decide

Microsoft is adding an opt-in Safe Attachments setting that quarantines password-protected attachments Defender cannot scan or detonate. It is off by...

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Two banks merging into one Microsoft 365 tenant with Exchange Online, Microsoft Entra ID, SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft Purview

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Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration for Credit Union and Bank Mergers

In This Article Why a Merger Creates a Two-Tenant Problem What Microsoft Actually Supports Today Single-Event Cutover vs Phased Coexistence Identity...

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Microsoft CSP partner security and delegated admin access explained for financial institutions

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Microsoft CSP Partner Security: What Financial Institutions Should Ask Their Microsoft Partner

In This Article What Microsoft Changed in July 2026 Why Your Microsoft Partner Is a Target GDAP and the Move to Least-Privilege Access What Every...

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SharePoint document vault protected inside a shield, with SharePoint Online auto-patched in Microsoft 365 versus an on-premises SharePoint Server needing a manual patch, under the Microsoft 365 logo.

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SharePoint Server RCE Cluster: What Banks and Credit Unions Must Do

In This Article What Microsoft Shipped in May and June 2026 Why a SharePoint Bug Is a Financial-Data Problem Inside the Vulnerability Group: What...

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