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MFA is being discontinued?
meggerz I checked Azure and the only legacy client app is "Exchange ActiveSync" which is required to be used on all Samsung and iPhones in order to get contacts and calendars sync'd to the native apps (if you use the Outlook mobile app the contacts on show in that app and not the phone's native app).
I assume Microsoft will have a solution for this if they kill off ActiveSync?
I'm sure there is a solution. Calendar and contact syncing to your native apps can be heavily controlled by your MDM, so that could be interfering.
If you do not use an MDM I would suggest Enabling and enforcing MFA for an account. Blow away all of your active sync profiles (Outlook contacts, calendar - these are all 3 separate entities by the sounds of it), and then reconfigure your profile with Modern authentication. You should be able to sync your calendar and contacts through to the native apps - there is an option in the Outlook profile that you need to enable for it.
That being said, I am using InTune and Android Enterprise with the corporate owned devices and work profiles (COPE) on our Samsung devices. We are seeing a lot of weird behaviour\bugs with the native calendar and contacts being used when the mail profile is configured through Outlook. Including things like the options to sync the calendar is not there if we setup the Outlook profile the first time we launch the app. If we open the app, close it, and then open it again and set up the Outlook profile the contacts and calendars sync properly. Don't forget to look to ensure the sync calendar and sync contacts is an option within the profile, as it isn't on by default. Again, a lot of these bugs are likely due to the MDM, not Outlook itself. We're still trying to sort it out ourselves.
I still stress that conditional access is also really important to look into that if you license allows.