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 is now planning to disable Basic Authentication use with its Exchange Online service sometime in the "second half of 2021," according to a Friday announcement. The end date for Basic ...

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 ...