Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - June 2021 Update

It’s been a few months since our last update on Basic Authentication in Exchange Online, but we’ve been busy getting ready for the next phase of the process: turning off Basic Authentication for tenants that don’t use it, and therefore, don’t need it enabled.

We have millions of customers who have Basic Auth enabled in their tenant, but only use Modern Auth. Many of them don’t know Basic is enabled, and the risks that it presents – so we are going to do our bit to help secure their data by turning it off for them.

Over the last few months, we have been building the supporting process and tools we need to do that at scale, and now we’re ready to start rolling it out.

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Gruß,
Dani