As well as a simplified, unified setup and roll-out of Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) aka 2FA/Two-Factor Authentication to protect Office 365 users and their accounts from cyber security compromise. In a very positive way! At last! Users of the Outlook client will begin to see a new modern login prompt that they are very familiar with instead of the windows login dialog box. Tenants already have Modern Authentication enabled for Outlook Mobile, Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the Web, so there will be no changes to any of those. Why it’s taken so many years to update Outlook to modern auth, nobody knows.Ĭonsequently enabling Azure Auth (multi-factor authentication) has been far more complicated through creating lengthy web app passwords and having to train end-users on what this password is and when to use it! And it’s never an easy job because the password is just so long to remember and therefore you have to keep the password stored somewhere “safe”…hmmmm ?Īll new Office 365 tenants created on or after 1st August 2017 have Modern Authentication enabled by default in Exchange Online for all clients except for Outlook! Finally Microsoft have decided to bring Outlook and its security in-line with their other Office programs by enabling Modern Authentication for the Windows Outlook client (and also Skype for Business client) in all managed (non-federated) tenants. Up until now, all Office 365 programs have modern auth built in except for Outlook. Microsoft constantly improves the security of their Office 365 products and services and Modern Authentication is one of the best ways to ensure that clients take full advantage of these security features like multi-factor authentication (MFA). The word to express this change is, “hallelujah!” Enabling Modern Auth And Microsoft will begin rolling this feature out early July 2019. Outlook for Windows 2016 and later versions is updating to the modern authentication (auth) logon experience.
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