

Why this is, I’m not sure, but you’ll need to enable modern authentication for Exchange Online and Skype for Business for this feature to work on the client end. Turned off for Skype for Business Online by default.Turned on for SharePoint Online by default.Turned off for Exchange Online by default.In that article we can see that modern authentication is:

Microsoft has described how modern authentication works in Office 20 client applications. However it’s not enough just to deploy a recent version of Office, modern authentication (or OAuth) needs to be enabled in your tenant. Office applications previous to 2013 aren’t capable of modern authentication, but if you’re deploying Office 365 your likely deploying Office 365 ProPlus - 2013 or later.

Modern authentication is, of course, the way to improve user experience but it’s not enabled by default. Unfortunately this will only serve to confuse users and result in calls to your service desk. Enabling Modern Authentication for Skype for Business OnlineĮnabling Azure AD and Office 365 features including multi-factor authentication and Conditional Access will impact your users because they’ll need utilise App Passwords (one time passwords used for authentication with legacy applications).Enabling Modern Authentication for Exchange Online.HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL REG_DWORD 1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover REG_DWORD 1 But, to turn it on, you need to configure the following registry keys: Microsoft Office 2013 on Microsoft Windows computers supports Modern authentication. We are using 2FA and have used the below reg fixes to get around this but this month it doesnt work and I'm reading some articles that Microsoft may have ended this this month but wanted to check if others are experiencing the same issue.Įnable Modern authentication for Office 2013 on Windows devices I know Microsoft turned off basic auth on but this month I've been trying to setup a mailbox in Outlook 2013 this month and cannot get authentication to occur. Does anyone know if it is still possbile to setup Exchagne online mailboxes in Outlook 2013 if you turn on modern authentication via the following registry entries?
