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The new Azure AD Signin Experience is now in Public Preview
We’re continuing to make progress on converging the Azure AD and Microsoft account identity systems. One of the big steps on this journey is to redesign the sign-in UI so both systems look consistent. We're happy to announce that this updated design is in public preview!
What’s changing:
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Redesign of Azure AD & Microsoft account sign-in experiences
- Pagination of the Azure AD sign-in page
Read more about it in the Enterprise Mobility & Security blog.
Eric, hope this is an appropriate place to pose this question. We use microsoft accounts for authentication on our commercial site. We have noticed recently that the login has failed for some users and it seems that the "login.microsoftonline.com" is now returning the AAD account instead of the microsoft work/school account and there is no way for the user to choose. Does this have something to do with the changes you mention?
In general I like the new signin experience. My device is AAD joined and I log in to the device using AAD credentials for one of the tenants. Here's a bit of an irritant:
1. Log in to the Office 365 portal.
2. Close the browser.
3. Reopen the browser and go to office.com
4. A login dialogue asking for the password for the previous user ID appears, but there's no way to go back to enter a different user ID (other than go back to the old experience).
Will this be fixed before GA?
- Kelvin Xia
Microsoft
Hey Erick, we're investigating this and I'll provide an update when I have one. Thanks for reporting this.
EricStarker and Kelvin Xia, I have the same question as Paul Spurrell. We enabled auto-acceleration for SharePoint Online which worked fine with the old sign-in experience but doesn't seem to work with the new one.
Kelvin mentioned in a comment on another conversation that it may be related to another change pushed out by O365 around the same time: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/New-sign-in-experience-for-Office-365-what-s-it-about/m-p/94333#M4657
Any status on that?
- Kelvin XiaHey Thomas - can you please elaborate on what you see with the new sign in experience vs the old one?
I can verify that it doesn't seem related to the new sign-in experience as I'm prompted for login even with the old one.
I'm basically back to where we were before enabling auto-acceleration, i.e. when I enter the URL of one of our SPO sites I get redirected to login.microsoftonline.com to sign in.
This happens in both Chrome and IE11.
Hi EricStarker, is there a way to force the new experience and remove the option to go back to the old one?
My team and I are launching our new SPO-based intranet at the end of the month and we don't need the added confusion of "which way do we log in?" popping into our change management plan.
I'd also rather they learn and know the new system as opposed to training on the old one then announcing the new one when it's the only option soon after our intranet launch.
Anything to simplify our process is appreciated.
I very much wan to know the answer to this. That badge at the bottom generates confusion for our end users.
Matt Wade wrote:
Hi EricStarker, is there a way to force the new experience and remove the option to go back to the old one?
My team and I are launching our new SPO-based intranet at the end of the month and we don't need the added confusion of "which way do we log in?" popping into our change management plan.
I'd also rather they learn and know the new system as opposed to training on the old one then announcing the new one when it's the only option soon after our intranet launch.
Anything to simplify our process is appreciated.
- Kelvin XiaOur change to remove the opt-out banner is rolling out right now. It should reach everyone globally by the end of this week.
I've reached out to the team and will try to get an answer for you.
Can I revert back to the old signin? This morning my Office desktop apps do not recognize my Office 365 credentials. I want to revert back to see if the issue is the new signin.
My device is Azure AD JOINed, running Click-to-Run office 365 ProPlus, 1707 8326.2070.
According to the comments section on this blog, https://practical365.com/blog/surprise-new-office-365-sign-experience-end-users/, clearing out your IE cache and staying with the old sign in fixes the office desktop apps issue.
Best of luck.
Thanks Robert. The problem cleared itself after about 1/2 a day.
