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Locking out a users with MFA enabled
App passwords are EVIL, they should not be used. Period. Every device platform now has at least one mail app that supports MFA, switch to it and disable app passwords completely. They are a nasty workaround that should be a thing of the past now.
Vasil,
I do not like App Passwords either, BUT Outlook 2016 would NOT do modern authentication, the only way I can get it to work is to use an App Password. These accounts were set up in Outlook already, and then we enabled MFA, so maybe I have to set up a new profile? IDK, but several people with Outlook 2016 (all updated), could not get modern authentication to work, the only thing it would take was an App Password. I also have a GS7 and the default mail app would not do modern authentication either, I had to use an App Password. Any suggestions?
Outlook 2016 definitely support Modern auth, make sure it's not disabled on the client side though. So does the Outlook mobile app, which is available on any platform. Stick to it.
Vasil, I don't see anywhere to "enable" modern auth on Outlook 2016. Have any ideas? All the googling I have found said its enabled by default. I don't have the Outlook app on my phone because it's a work phone and I don't want to sign in with my personal google account or create a work google account just to download an app from Google Play.
It is enabled by default, yes, but can be disabled via GPO/registry keys - thus my point of making sure it's not being disabled.