Shared team calendars living in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365 cloud) public folders are on borrowed time. Starting October 1st, 2026, Microsoft begins switching EWS off in Exchange Online, tenant by tenant, and on April 1st, 2027, it is fully and permanently disabled, with the tenant-level switch itself removed. Public folders are the sharpest edge of…
If your team keeps a company contact list in an Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) public folder, the clock is running. Starting October 1st, 2026, Microsoft begins switching EWS off in Exchange Online, tenant by tenant, and on April 1st, 2027, it is fully and permanently disabled, with the tenant-level switch removed. That matters for public…
Microsoft is retiring Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365 cloud), and the first deadline is days away. If your organization relies on an app that syncs mail, calendars, tasks, or contacts over EWS, you can keep it running until the final shutdown with a short PowerShell change. Here’s what’s happening and how…
Many organizations run Microsoft 365 for email and collaboration, but still hand out Google Workspace accounts to at least part of their team – for shared drives, Google Meet, or simply because that’s what a subsidiary or partner company standardized on. This creates a common gap: the company’s Global Address List (GAL) lives in Microsoft…
If you use SyncPenguin to keep your contacts, calendar meetings, or tasks in sync between Exchange/Outlook and other platforms, this post explains an important change happening under the hood – and a small action some of the customers will need to take to keep their sync running smoothly. Note: this only relates to customers who…
Does your organization share conference rooms with another company, only to struggle with keeping calendars in sync? The challenge becomes even more complex when each company uses a different office collaboration suite — Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. In this blog post, we’ll introduce a seamless solution: a simple and near real-time two-way synchronization between…
Imagine a scenario where your company shares an office meeting room(s) with another organization, and both of you utilize Microsoft Office 365 as your preferred office suite. However, you encounter a challenge: meetings cannot be directly shared between the two tenants. In such a situation, how can you effectively manage the room’s calendar? Fortunately, SyncPenguin…
GAL (Global Address List) is a list of contacts that are accessible to all users across Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) tenant. This list combines tenant user details, as well as organizational contacts and information about groups. In this article we will explore how you can use SyncPenguin to set up a full…
In this article, we’ll go over the steps necessary to enable full delegate access to an Office 365 or Exchange room or resource calendar. SyncPenguin uses this permission to connect a room or resource calendar through a dedicated user or service account in order to two-way sync room calendars between or within tenants. Office 365…