Enable Modern Authentication for Outlook 2013

Since Microsoft will soon start to turn off Basic Authentication for Exchange Online, you’ll have to enable Modern Authentication client-side if you still have some machines running Outlook 2013 and want them to connect to Office 365. This is quickly done by adding some registry keys. Modern authentication is already enabled by default in Office 2016 and later versions.

This process will activate the Modern Authentication workflow for all the apps included in Office 2013 (Outlook 2013, Excel 2013, Word 2013, OneNote, etc.), not just Outlook.

While this procedure will allow you (for now) to connect to Office 365, it is critical to remember that connection to Office 365 and Exchange Online via Office 2013 is not supported anymore. You should update to a newer and supported version soon, as things might stop working without notice.

To enable the feature, either open an elevated CMD and paste these commands in or add the entries manually via Registry Editor.

CMD:

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange /v "AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity /v "EnableADAL" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity /v "Version" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

REGISTRY EDITOR:

Path	Value	Type	Value
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange	AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover	REG_DWORD	1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity	EnableADAL	REG_DWORD	1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity	Version	REG_DWORD	1

August 18, 2022February 9, 2023 Azvise

Restrict access to Azure Management apps – Azure AD

If we want to restrict access to the Azure management services for non-privileged users, we can now create a Conditional Access Policy that allows us to do so.

To create a Conditional Access Policy, we’ll need Azure Active Directory Plan 1 or higher, which is either bought standalone, or can be found most notably inside Microsoft 365 Business Premium, or the Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans (E3, E5)

On the other hand, if we just need to restrict access to Azure AD, we have the option to do so from the User Settings in the Azure AD portal:

User Settings | Azure AD

By creating the following Conditional Access Policy, we will restrict users from accessing these apps:

Azure portal
Azure Resource Manager provider
Classic deployment model APIs
Azure PowerShell
Azure CLI
Azure DevOps
Azure Data Factory portal
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Service Bus
Azure SQL Database
SQL Managed Instance
Azure Synapse
Visual Studio subscriptions administrator portal

First, open the following link, or go into your Conditional Access Policies:

Conditional Access Policies | Azure AD

Then, under “Users or workload identities“, select all users, and exclude the admin roles you currently use in your organization. You could also create a security group with all admin users as members and then exclude it from the policy.

Under “Cloud apps or actions”, click on “Selected apps”, then “Microsoft Azure Management“.