Microsoft still intends to turn off Basic Authentication for Exchange Online users on Oct. 1, but it is offering a possible grace period of about three months before ending it altogether. The new ...

Back in 2022, Microsoft announced the retirement of Basic Authentication as it was moving to modern OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication. The reason was simple, to move away from such simple ...

Microsoft has announced it will begin disabling HTTP-based authentication scheme Basic Authentication. The move will impact random tenants using Exchange Online worldwide from October 1, 2022. The ...

For various protocols, Microsoft has already removed Basic Authentication in Exchange Online. The timeline for SMTP is being postponed. So far, Microsoft has disabled simple username-password login ...