What's New for Organizations

Use Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) to submit the IP addresses of your gateway servers and e-mail servers to the FOPE safelists. You add IP addresses to safelists, also known as whitelists, to make sure that e-mail that comes from your on-premises messaging system isn't treated as spam.

• IP Safelisting for Mail Delivery and Relay
  
• Exchange Online URLs and IP Address Ranges
  
• Spam Filtering and Message Hygiene
  

You can use the new E-mail Migration dashboard in the Exchange Control Panel to manage mailbox migration to Exchange Online by using a cutover or staged Exchange migration. You can also use the migration dashboard to migrate mailbox items from an on-premises IMAP server to existing cloud-based mailboxes. The migration dashboard displays statistics about the overall migration in addition to statistics about a specific migration batch. You can create, start, stop, pause, and edit migration batches. See Manage Migration Batches in Exchange Online.

Now you can submit multiple migration batches—up to 100—when you perform a staged Exchange migration or an IMAP migration. When you create multiple migration batches, each one is listed in the E-mail Migration dashboard. A migration batch that’s been created and started will run after the migration batch that precedes it in the queue has finished. You can also change the position of a migration batch in the queue.

• Migrate Mailboxes to the Cloud with a Staged Exchange Migration
  
• Migrate E-Mail from an IMAP Server to Cloud-based Mailboxes
  
• Manage Migration Batches in Exchange Online
  

Now you can display status information for each user migrated during a cutover Exchange migration, a staged Exchange migration, or an IMAP migration. This migration information can help you troubleshoot issues that might prevent the migration of a user’s mailbox or mailbox items. You can display this migration status information for migration batches that are currently running, have been stopped, or are complete. See E-Mail Migration Users Status Report.

If you’ve activated and installed the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool for your Office 365 for enterprises organization, you can deactivate directory synchronization. This allows you to manage user objects from your Office 365 directory. Or you can leave directory synchronization activated and manage user objects from your on-premises Active Directory. See:

• Directory synchronization and source of authority
  
• Manage directory synchronization
  

For Office 365 for enterprises, Unified Messaging (UM) combines users' voice messaging and e-mail messaging into one mailbox that can be accessed from many different devices. Users can listen to their messages from their e-mail Inbox or by using Outlook Voice Access from any telephone. You have control over how users place outgoing calls from UM, and the experience people have when they call in to your organization.

• Use Unified Messaging to Connect Exchange to Your Telephone System
  
• Set Up Unified Messaging
  

The sender photos feature allows users to associate a picture with their account. A user’s photo appears in an e-mail message or a meeting request, in the shared address book, and in Outlook Web App when the user is signed in to their mailbox. Additionally, the user's instant messaging presence status appears as a colored bar to the left of the picture. See Control Sender Photo Settings in Outlook Web App.

A group naming policy lets you standardize and manage the names of distribution groups created by users in your organization. You can require a specific prefix and suffix be added to the name for distribution group when it's created, and you can block specific words from being used. Group naming policy helps you enforce a consistent naming strategy for groups created by users. See Create a Naming Policy for Distribution Groups.

For Office 365 for enterprises, use journal rules to record, or "journal", e-mail messages sent to or from specific recipients. When a message matches the criteria defined by the journal rule, that message is journaled. You define the recipients you want to journal, the messages sent to or from those recipients you want to journal, and where you want copies of the journaled messages to be delivered. Journal rules can help your organization respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements. See Journal Rules.

Now you can manage retention policies and retention tags using the Exchange Control Panel.

• Create a New Retention Policy in Exchange Online
  
• Create a New Retention Tag
  
• Change the Retention Policy Applied to a Mailbox
  

New to retention policies and tags? See:

• Retention Policies in Exchange Online
  
• Retention Tags in Exchange Online
  

Now you can preview the results of a multi-mailbox search in the Exchange Control Panel instead of opening the discovery mailbox to view the results. This lets you quickly determine whether the search results are relevant. After you preview the results, you can revise your search query to narrow the search results and rerun the search. See Preview Multi-Mailbox Search Results. New to multi-mailbox search? See Multi-Mailbox Searches.

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