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Outlook 2016 with MFA enabled MSA
Here's the basic question.
Does Outlook 2016 support MFA enabled MSAs without requiring the use of App Passwords?
In other words, is modern authentication (notification, text, call) capab...
2fa Support for consumer accounts is new to outlook 2016 (should be available in updates this month), so if you need the app password now, you soon won’t. Gmail 2fa support is coming too - I thought in the same update, but haven’t tested it yet.
Do you remember if, when you initially wired up the account into Outlook 2016, you used an App Password or were able to do it using actual 2-step methods (app notification, text message, code) for identity verification purposes?
To be honest, I don't remember what I used, but I'd trust Diane's answer on this - she's the authority on anything Outlook related :)