Modern Authentication and MAPI-HTTP

27th of July, 2016 / / No Comments

If you haven’t heard, Modern Authentication (aka ADAL), has now officially gone GA (https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/19/updated-office-365-modern-authentication-public-preview/) – which means that if you are utilising Office 365 services, particularly Exchange Online, and Office 2013/2016 as your client, you should really be looking at enabling this functionality for your end users.

For those unfamiliar with Modern Auth, there are numerous benefits, but one of the most obvious for end users is it removes the need for the use of ‘save my credentials’ when signing into Exchange Online and provides a true SSO experience when combined with ADFS Federation.… [Keep reading] “Modern Authentication and MAPI-HTTP”

Modern Authentication updates for Office 2013 (MSI-based)

7th of November, 2015 / / 8 Comments

Earlier this year, Office 2013 Modern Authentication using the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) moved to public preview. The steps to take part in the preview and to prepare the Office 2013 software are well documented, particularly by one of my fellow Kloudies (see Lucian’s blog here).

However, you may find that despite creating the registry keys and installing the required updates, Modern Authentication is still not working – something I recently encountered with MSI-based installations of Office 2013 SP1 in a Windows 7 SOE.… [Keep reading] “Modern Authentication updates for Office 2013 (MSI-based)”