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Deprecation of Microsoft Application Impersonation in Exchange Online and its impact on Email notification workflow in MaaS360

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Abstract

Microsoft has announced that they will start to block the new assignment of the ApplicationImpersonation role for Exchange Online accounts starting July 2024 and discontinue its use by February 2025.

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According to MicrosoftTM, new assignments of the ApplicationImpersonation role are blocked starting July 2024. By February 2025, this permission scope will be removed entirely.
For more information, see Microsoft documentation.
Customer Impact:
  • MaaS360 uses the ApplicationImpersonation role in the email notification workflow for listener accounts.
  • Any new Exchange Online assignments that are created by using the ApplicationImpersonation role will not work after 30 June 2024.
  • Existing role assignments using the ApplicationImpersonation role will not work after 30 October 2024.
Action required:
  • Users must upgrade all Cloud Extender versions to Cloud Extender 3.000.750 or later.
  • From 1 July 2024, new users must use the new workflow for configuring Exchange Email notifications by using one of the options (Using Shared Secret or Using Certificate) for their Cloud Extender installations.
  • By 1 November 2024, existing users must move to the new workflow for configuring Exchange Email notifications by using one of the options (Using Shared Secret or Using Certificate) for their current Cloud Extender installations from the Using Listener Account option.
For more information about the prerequisites and the steps for configuring Email notification workflow, see Configuring Exchange email notifications.

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Modified date:
28 June 2024

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