Set-OrganizationConfig -OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled $true You took a look at our docs, found the article called Enable or disable Modern Authentication for Outlook in Exchange Online | Microsoft Docs and saw that all you need to do is read the article (which it says will take just 2 minutes) and then run: Any change that might impact those users is never to be taken lightly.Īs Admin, you know you need to get those users switched from Basic to Modern Auth, and you know all it takes is one PowerShell command. This is the client most widely used by many of our customers, and the client that huge numbers of people spend their day in. This post is specifically about enabling Modern Authentication for Outlook for Windows. But the ‘getting there’ part might be the hard part, and that’s what this blog post is about.

Modern Authentication, based on OAuth2, has a lot of advantages and benefits as we have covered before, and we’ve yet to meet a customer who doesn’t think it is a good thing.

Since we announced in 2019 that we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols we have been encouraging our customers to switch to Modern Authentication.

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