Microsoft is taking the first concrete step in its phased enforcement of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app requirement: on September 16, 2025 at 07:00 UTC Microsoft will temporarily block Exchange Web Services (EWS) traffic that uses the Exchange Online shared service principal for hybrid...
Microsoft’s Exchange team published a short but important Hotfix Update (HU) rollup for September 2025 that is aimed at fixing a non‑security issue in earlier updates and, crucially, preserves support for the dedicated Exchange hybrid application workflow introduced earlier in 2025 — the update...
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Microsoft has begun a strict, time‑boxed push to move Exchange hybrid customers off a Microsoft‑managed shared service principal and onto a dedicated Exchange hybrid app in Entra ID — a change driven by a high‑severity hybrid vulnerability and enforced through short, scheduled EWS traffic blocks...
Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...
Microsoft’s new cloud-managed remote mailbox capability finally gives hybrid organizations a supported, auditable path to stop running an on‑premises Exchange server purely for recipient management — and it changes the rules for how Exchange attributes are governed in hybrid environments. The...
Microsoft's updated Exchange hybrid guidance — and a last‑minute change to the enforcement cadence — should be on every hybrid admin’s radar: the Exchange team has expanded the push to migrate hybrid traffic away from the long‑standing Exchange Online shared service principal into a tenant‑owned...
Microsoft’s Exchange team has given hybrid administrators a clear-but-urgent migration mandate: switch to the dedicated Exchange hybrid app and update on‑prem servers now, or face temporary disruptions in September and October followed by a permanent enforcement that will stop rich coexistence...
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India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday is one of the heavier maintenance cycles of the year: the company released patches addressing well over a hundred vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server and Azure services, and security teams must triage a short list of immediate priorities...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday landed as a heavy, cross‑cutting security package that mixes high‑severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws, a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege issue, and several cloud‑centric patches that were already mitigated on the service side—creating a...
Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...
Microsoft’s security portal lists CVE-2025-25007 as a Microsoft Exchange Server spoofing vulnerability caused by improper validation of syntactic correctness of input, but public technical detail and third‑party analysis for this specific CVE remain sparse at the time of publication —...
Title: CVE-2025-25006 — Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability: what admins need to know and do now
Date: August 12, 2025
By: WindowsForum.com Security Desk
Executive summary
On or around August 2025 Microsoft’s Update Guide lists CVE-2025-25006 as “Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing...
A Microsoft Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-33051 describes an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server, and the appearance of that CVE on the vendor’s advisory should put any on‑premises Exchange administrator on high alert. At the time of writing...
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A new wave of cybersecurity urgency is sweeping through IT departments as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issues a fresh, high-severity warning concerning Microsoft Exchange Server. The alert, centered around CVE-2025-53786, underscores a newly disclosed vulnerability...
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An alarming new vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid environments has sent shockwaves through the enterprise security landscape, giving attackers with just on-premises admin access the ability to hijack cloud accounts with near-complete impunity. Unveiled at Black Hat 2025 and now...
A high-severity vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-53786, has sent urgent ripples through the IT and cybersecurity communities as organizations relying on Microsoft’s hybrid Exchange deployments face a new vector for privilege escalation and potential domain-wide compromise. Microsoft has...
A critical security update has emerged for organizations leveraging Microsoft Exchange Server in hybrid cloud environments, as CVE-2025-53786 exposes a significant elevation of privilege vulnerability. On April 18th, 2025, Microsoft not only published important security changes for hybrid...
Microsoft just dropped its April 2025 Hotfix Updates for Exchange Server 2019 and 2016, and let’s be honest: if you’re an IT pro managing one of these beasts, you probably just felt a chill run down your spine. Yes, once again, Microsoft’s keeping us all on our toes—and by “on our toes,” I mean...
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If your Exchange Server is sporting the digital equivalent of bell-bottoms and disco fever, it’s time for an upgrade. For some administrators, tackling a lagging Exchange environment ranks just above untangling a Slinky or flossing the office server rack—meaning somewhere between “absolutely...
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