Microsoft has started removing Exchange Web Services (EWS) from its tenants, according to The Register. The legacy API is now beginning to disappear, and after April no exceptions will be made for access. This is the final stretch of the deprecation process.
EWS has been a long-standing interface for programmatic access to Exchange mailboxes, but Microsoft is now pulling the plug. Organizations that still rely on it will need to find an alternative before the cutoff, as the company will not grant extensions beyond April.
The report does not detail specific migration paths, but the message is clear: the legacy API is on its way out. Tenants affected by the change should expect access to fade over the coming months, with a hard stop after April.