Microsoft announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off for all protocols in all tenants starting October 1st, 2022, to protect millions of Exchange Online users. This announcement comes ...

Microsoft announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off in Exchange Online for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), POP, IMAP, and Remote PowerShell starting October 13, 2020. This comes after a ...

Microsoft now wants to prevent private mail accounts, such as Outlook.com, from logging in with just a username and password. Microsoft wants to make logging into private email accounts, such as ...

The main purpose of Basic Authentication in Outlook is to allow users to save credentials when it is being used against a server. However, if you want to prevent users from saving credentials for ...

Microsoft recommends enabling multi-factor authentication for Office 365. To do so, you must also disable basic or legacy authentication on Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft recently announced that ...

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ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...