Exchange Online Is Nuking the EAC “Other Features” Page in 2026, Because Of Course It Fucking Is

Right, here’s the short version before Microsoft buries it under seventeen admin portals, three renames, and a cheery Message Center post nobody asked for. Exchange Online is removing the “Other features” page from the Exchange Admin Center in 2026. That page currently acts like a glorified junk drawer full of links to older Exchange features and settings. Microsoft has decided to get rid of the page and push admins to manage those features elsewhere. Because apparently one more round of “where the hell did they move that setting?” is exactly what everyone needed.

The article explains that the Other features page doesn’t actually host the features itself; it mostly points to legacy or separate management interfaces. So Microsoft’s grand plan is to retire the page and have admins go directly to the relevant admin centers, PowerShell, or whatever other labyrinthine hellscape now owns the setting. In other words: the cupboard is being removed, but all the crap inside still exists somewhere else, scattered around the house like a drunk sysadmin’s toolbox.

The practical impact is this: admins need to review what they still use from that page and figure out the new management path before the removal hits. If your team relies on those shortcuts, now would be a damn good time to document where the features are actually administered, update internal procedures, and prepare support staff for the inevitable “it used to be right there” whining. You know, basic survival.

The article also points out the bigger pattern here: Microsoft keeps consolidating, reshuffling, and retiring bits of the old Exchange management experience in favor of newer portals and modernized controls. Sounds lovely in a slide deck. In reality, it means admins get to play “find the bloody setting” every few months while pretending this is progress instead of UI vandalism with a roadmap.

So no, Exchange Online isn’t deleting every underlying feature tomorrow. It’s deleting the page that links to them, which is somehow less catastrophic and more annoying at the same time. The sensible takeaway from the article is: check what’s on that page in your environment, identify replacement locations now, and don’t wait until 2026 when some manager asks why the button vanished and suddenly it’s your fault. Same old shit, different admin center.

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that this is at least announced in advance, which is more courtesy than some vendors manage before detonating workflows in production. But let’s not get too sentimental. It’s still another case of Microsoft “simplifying” things by removing a useful navigation point and expecting admins to be grateful for the exercise.

Link: https://4sysops.com/archives/exchange-online-will-remove-the-eac-other-features-page-in-2026/

Anecdote time: years ago, I watched a vendor remove a perfectly functional admin menu because it was “redundant.” What they meant was they’d hidden half the options in another console, shoved the rest into PowerShell, and left us to explain to management why a five-second task now required a treasure map and profanity. We fixed it, of course. We always do. Doesn’t mean I have to like the stupid bastards who create the mess.

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