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Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online

Microsoft has deprecated Basic authentication in Exchange Online, disabling it across all tenants. This change enhances security by removing a vulnerable authentication method and encourages adoption of more secure alternatives like OAuth and modern authentication protocols.

Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online Summarize this article for me In this article Important Basic authentication is now disabled in all tenants. What we are changing We removed the ability to use Basic authentication in Exchange Online for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), POP, IMAP, R... Version 3.0.0 of…
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