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The writing has been on the wall for EWS in Exchange Online for ages, and Apple’s promised Graph support still hasn’t shipped; M365 can temporarily keep EWS enabled until April 2027, but right now some tenants may effectively kick out Apple Mail/Calendar, which is just stupid because it is definitely not Microsoft’s fault that EWS is being phased out in favor of a better, much more flexible approach. I have zero idea about why it’s taking Apple this long to get their act together, since EWS has been feature-frozen since 2018 and Graph has been meat and potatoes stuff for ages. Even though I do run Outlook locally for my (very rare now) consulting/advisory work, I am not looking forward to being locked out of my accounts just because Apple effectively stopped maintaining its cloud account integrations and has been phoning it in for the last 3 or 4 macOS releases–not to mention that, as I’ve found over the past couple of years while trying to automate stuff, it is effectively impossible…

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