M365 : How to temporarily relax EWS throttling
Scenario
You have a large amount of data that needs to be restored/protected/migrated and performance is heavily impacted due to Exchange Web Services (EWS) related throttling. To achieve better performance, you can relax the throttling from Microsoft by following these steps.
- Navigate to your Microsoft 365 administration page at https://admin.microsoft.com/.
- Click the question mark icon on the top right and search for โEWS Throttling Policy Increaseโ.
- Proceed to run the test and allow it to process.
- At the prompt, select the duration of time to relax the throttling.
- After youโve applied the duration, you will receive a success message that your EWS throttling policy has been modified.
Updated about 2 months ago