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Shared Mailbox can have a password and login enabled without license
I'm very much aware of the license requirements for Shared Mailboxes in Exchange Online and for all Shared Mailboxes we always give licensed users access to them. If we need to login to the actual sh...
This "feature" has been around for years, but despite probing Microsoft numerous times about it, we haven't received a clear answer. Until we do so, assume that it's unsupported, and that it breaks the license agreement.
Applications should still be able to access the mailbox via delegate/impersonation permissions.
@hether licensed or not we have seen that users can login directly into a shared-mailbox with credentials. it is actually a big problem. as the expectation is that they can't access them with a password and then we also don't apply MFA to them.
Brian_Thomas_Grant and others
The funny thing is (just checked twice)
O365 / EOL:
Created a shared mailbox
assigned access rights and mailaddresses
OK
Users: new account w/o assigned license appears / is created
Login is NOT disabled
HT? What is this?
hRy
