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New sign-in experience for Office 365, what's it about?
Here is the announcement - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/08/02/the-new-azure-ad-signin-experience-is-now-in-public-preview/:
"You might have noticed that we’ve been rolling out the new design on Microsoft accounts over the last few weeks. Now, it’s Azure AD’s turn. Starting today, you’ll see a banner on the Azure AD sign-in page giving users the option to opt-in to see the new experience."
There is a call to action, to test custom branding, check any automation is unaffected and to update documentation and training materials! As for timescales -
"We know that this will be a disruptive change for some of you, but we believe that this sets us up for an exciting future of innovation in the sign-in space. To give you time to prepare for the change, we’ll leave the new experience as an opt-in public preview for the next few weeks. We plan to switch over to the new UI by default during the last week of September."
Well we sure aren't going to updating all our users to Office 2016 between now and then.
This will just make my users even less likely to want to use Office365.
Oh well, so it can be a breaking change also, another rollback incoming...
C_the_S make sure your TAM or the O365 support guys hear your feedback loud and clear on this, hopefully one day Microsoft will finally understand that such changes need to be thoroughly TESTED and ANNOUNCED well in advance.
DaniMartMS another ping, there's definitely some useful feedback for you guys to gather from this thread!
- DaniMartMS
Microsoft
Thanks for calling this out VasilMichev (and for the double ping as I was on Vacation). This is indeed much valuable feedback, and I`m pretty sure BrjannBrekkan, Nasos_Kladakis, and Alex_Simons will want to learn about the user experience for the new Azure AD Sign In.
The Office365 support (via the Admin Center) came back with it doesn't work because the new Azure sign-in uses "Modern Authentication" and Office 2010 doesn't support it, but Office 2013 & 2016 do. They proceeded to tell me the fix is to update to Office 2013 or 2016.
Someone here has reached out to me via these forums and I'll see where that goes.
Opened a ticket.
Also left a comment on the blog post, but it is still "awaiting moderation".
- I've tested the new login and there appeared to be no SSO or PTA support. Had to type in both the username and password.
Agree with all the comments above.
