Security News > 2021 > March > The torture garden of Microsoft Exchange: Grant us the serenity to accept what they cannot EOL

It is Microsoft Exchange and its drooling minion, Outlook.

It's easy to get things wrong in Exchange admin.

As one Exchange admin wryly commented - if you haven't lost a night's sleep already, you're going to lose two starting tomorrow.

If you're going to leave your brand of legacy code out there and don't work to keep it safe, you'll have to accept the consequences.

I don't know what the Exchange and Outlook sources look like: it could be that they are an engineering marvel, a treat to work on and an exemplar of the architect's art.

Microsoft can't end-of-life Exchange, any more than it could avoid putting out BlueKeep patches in 2019 for Windows XP. It can't magic away all the on-premises Exchange servers into the cloud: this monster has a life of its own.

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