{"id":282,"date":"2021-11-24T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:12:33","slug":"microsoft-office-365-security-defaults-causes-outlook-to-endlessly-ask-for-a-password-even-on-clean-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/microsoft-office-365-security-defaults-causes-outlook-to-endlessly-ask-for-a-password-even-on-clean-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 Security Defaults breaks Outlook Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fixing Outlook endlessly asking for a password after Security Defaults is enabled<\/h2>\n<p>When you enable Security Defaults in Microsoft 365 and for some users, their Outlook asks for a password over and over again, always and forever &#8211; even on clean profiles. Here is the fix that worked for me. This worked on Windows 10 computers running the latest versions of the Microsoft Office 365 software.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fast publish &#8211; mainly so I can remember the fix.<\/p>\n<h3>First Steps<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure Windows and Office software is up to date<\/li>\n<li>Clear all 365 and outlook related items from the Windows Credential Manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Check Modern Authentication<\/h3>\n<p>Ensure Modern Authentication is enabled on the tenant. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberark-customers.force.com\/s\/article\/KB-7276-How-to-enable-or-disable-Modern-Authentication-ADAL-for-an-Office-365-tenant-Exchange-Online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Open powershell and connect to exchange online:<\/p>\n<p><em>Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName user@contoso.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Set-OrganizationConfig -OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled $true<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-Table Name,OAuth* -Auto<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Add Registry Keys<\/h3>\n<p>Add following registry keys. This tells outlook to pop open the 365 authentication windows instead of the old outlook username and password dialogue box: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook\/troubleshoot\/authentication\/outlook-prompt-password-modern-authentication-enabled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source Article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Exchange<br \/>\nNew DWORD Value:\u00a0AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover<\/p>\n<p>In the Value data box, type 1<\/p>\n<p>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\15.0\\Common\\Identity\\<\/p>\n<p>New DWORD Value: EnableADAL<\/p>\n<p>In the Value data box, type 1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing Outlook endlessly asking for a password after Security Defaults is enabled When you enable Security Defaults in Microsoft 365 and for some users, their Outlook asks for a password <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/microsoft-office-365-security-defaults-causes-outlook-to-endlessly-ask-for-a-password-even-on-clean-profiles\/\">&#8230; Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,43,42],"tags":[48,49,45,44,47,51,50,46,52],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solveitalaska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}