And before you turn off basic authentication for protocols, you can make sure that these users in your organization aren’t using the basic authentication protocols. If your tenant allows basic authentication, then you can make use of the basic authentication report available in the Azure AD portal to keep track of the users who still use basic authentication protocols for sign-ins. If a tenant is using basic auth, org settings are shown as below.

The below information is shown when a tenant is using modern authentication. Select ‘Modern authentication‘ present under the ‘ Services‘ tab.īased on the message displayed, you can conclude whether the modern authentication is forced or the tenant is still using basic authentication.To check the basic authentication status, In the newly created Microsoft 365 tenants (i.e., tenants created after Oct 22, 2019), basic authentication is turned off by default as they have security defaults enabled.

How to Check if Basic Authentication is Enabled? Before disabling basic auth, you must make sure whether your organization is still using basic authentication. This blog will guide you on disabling basic authentication through various methods and adopting modern authentication to improve the security of your organization. So, it’s time to disable basic authentication and upgrade scripts/applications to get an uninterrupted service. After making multiple announcements, finally, Microsoft is going to deprecate basic authentication in Exchange Online from Oct 2022 (which was postponed from Oct 2020).

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