Last month we turned off Basic auth in Exchange Online for many customers. We’ve protected millions of users from the risks associated with using this legacy form of authentication to access their da...
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I get a dozen ”major change” notifications a week from Message Center, 99.9% are noise. You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t spend all my time reading about every little thing Microsoft changes. I did, once kicked off, wade through the huge volumes of spam in the Message Center and find your plan. That’s how I resolved the issue.
But “customer should have read that we planned to screw over customers” does not address the concern I’ve raised that “customer should be able to choose customer’s own security strategy.”
Unilaterally making a decision for “millions” of people is guaranteed to be a mistake for some portion of those people, but this team can’t or won’t concede that. Instead, it’s very clear that “buy new hardware or GTFO, cause we know your users better than you.” is Microsoft’s position, so I’ll choose the latter. I administer 3 tenants, only one is impacted by this — unfortunately, the ones least able to understand it. (Heaven forbid that some sneaky hacker might bust in and see my daughter’s latest drawing of a cat that she made for her grandmother!) But: message received. We’re not wanted here and Redmond doesn’t want to hear from their customers, so I’ll be sure to begin migrating all three tenants, just in case I miss another Message Center email in the future…