
Please bear in mind that this tutorial assumes the email account you will be setting up in Outlook exists on your hosting account. In this tutorial, we will step-by-step guide on setting up your Email Accounts in the Outlook Client. Incorporating a robust feature set, such as calendar, task manager, contact manager, and more, Outlook remains the most comprehensive software primarily used as an email application. Do it at your own risk.Microsoft Outlook is unarguably one of the most popular and widely used Email Clients. Note: registry changes might result in problems and serious issues with computers and software. Enforcing Modern Authentication made Outlook 2016 accept the regular office 365 password (that worked OWA password).
Outlook 2016 supports modern authentication and it is ON by default but we’ve had to enforce it in some instances because Outlook kept prompting for a password and wouldn’t take the password that worked with OWA but Outlook worked with App Password. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Version HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL Outlook 2013 supports Modern Authentication but you need to add the following two registry keys. Outlook 2010 doesn’t support Modern Authentication. Login as admin, expand Settings, click Org Settings, Select Modern Authentication and turn it on. Make sure Modern Authentication is turned on on the Office 365 Portal. In Office 365 two factor authentication (2FA), App Password is used for older versions of Microsoft Outlook or for non Microsoft email clients on devices like MACs or smart phones.Īfter enforcing 2FA in Office 365 and if you are trying to configure Outlook 2016 for email, and Outlook keeps rejecting the password that you have been using and that works with OWA, while if you try the App Password it works in Outlook, then you might want to add a registry key to enable and enforce Modern Authentication.