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 this week again appealed to organizations using Exchange Online to move away from using "Basic Authentication," reminding them that support for it will get dropped, starting on Oct. 1, 2022.

This week brings Exchange Online news regarding Basic Authentication, plus a September cumulative update delay for Exchange Server. If that weren't enough, there's a major security hole discovered in ...