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MC276028 – Updated August 12, 2021: Based on initial feedback, there are several scenarios where organizations do not wish to have plus addressing enabled. For those organizations, a new setting will be added to disable it before the change takes place in 2022. Thank you for your feedback.
Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature. This was due to preexisting usage of plus signs (+) for email addresses in the service. At the same time, Microsoft made plus addressing on by default for new customers.
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With the successful introduction of the feature, Microsoft is now making plus addressing an always-on feature and removing the opt-in setting. Due to legacy mailboxes with email addresses containing plus signs (+), Microsoft is announcing a long notice period to allow customers to transition away from these mailboxes or addresses. This includes mailboxes on-premises.
Key Points:
How this will affect your organization:
If you don’t stop using email addresses with plus signs (+), Exchange Online may be unable to deliver emails to them when plus addressing is turned on for the entire service.
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What you need to do to prepare:
To fix any potential problems, remove any addresses with plus signs (+) from your organizations’ mailboxes.
If you are not blocked from using plus addressing, you can still enable plus addressing for your organization before January.
Review the following to learn more about plus addressing: Plus Addressing in Exchange Online
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