San Francisco:Microsoft has stated that it is going to be shutting down the Alternate Internet Companies Software Programming Interface for Alternate On-line and Workplace 365, in roughly three years.
Alternate Internet Companies (EWS) is a cross-platform Software Programming Interface (API) for growing apps that may entry mailbox objects similar to electronic mail messages, conferences, and contacts.
Entry to those sources will be obtained via a number of choices, together with Alternate On-line as a part of Workplace 365, and on-premises editions of Alternate (beginning with Alternate Server 2007).
“Right this moment, we’re saying that on October 1, 2026, we are going to begin blocking EWS requests from non-Microsoft apps to Alternate On-line,” Microsoft stated in a blogpost on Tuesday.
“Whereas the EWS parts of the service will proceed to obtain safety updates and sure non-security updates, product design and options will stay unchanged. This transformation additionally applies to the EWS SDKs for Java and .NET, as effectively,” it added.
The know-how big first introduced in 2018 that Microsoft was not making characteristic updates to EWS in Alternate On-line, and it suggested builders to maneuver to Microsoft Graph.
It is value noting that the retirement of EWS applies solely to Microsoft 365 and Alternate On-line in all environments.
EWS inside Alternate Server will stay unchanged, and the changes made in Alternate On-line is not going to have an effect on Outlook for Home windows or Mac, Groups, or different Microsoft merchandise, the corporate stated.
In the meantime, Microsoft has shut down its most applauded characteristic, “Internet Choose” — from Edge browser. To enhance end-user expertise, the Internet Choose characteristic “is being deprecated and can not be an possibility beneath Internet Seize or through keyboard shortcut,” Microsoft stated in a help doc.
