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Exchange Online – Retirement of the Basic Authentication for POP

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If you remember since 2019, Microsoft has been announcing the retirement of Basic Authentication in a way to improve security as Basic Authentication does not support multi factor authentication (MFA) (see https://t.co/9XZtsVFoQr). Well, Office 365 and Exchange Online administrators should start looking at their Message Center has the retirement is starting and Microsoft provides you […]

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Exchange Online – New support for OAuth authentication for SMTP, IMAP and POP

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If you are working with Exchange Online, chances are you have some components in your environment (applications, network devices…) which need to access mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online. Well, until now the only way for most of these components was to use POP/IMAP/SMTP connections; which we all know is not the most secure protocols. Good

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Exchange Online – Get ready for the retirement of Basic Authentication

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In the process of re enforcing security, one of the key is to use robust and secure authentication protocols and methods. With that in mind, get ready for the retirement of the basic authentication in Exchange Online for POP and IMAP. If you use POP and/or IMAP to connect to an Exchange Online mailbox, you

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