On February 1, Xavier will transition Office 365 to a more secure form of authentication called Modern Authentication. This change may impact you, depending on which programs you currently use to check your Xavier email account. This FAQ addresses the most common questions related to this change.
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Modern Authentication is a form of secure authentication provided by Microsoft. Among other benefits, Modern Authentication allows Xavier to extend multifactor authentication to desktop and mobile email clients.
The level of impact depends largely on which email clients you use to access Xavier email on desktops and mobile devices:
The login experience will be the same as other login processes that already use multifactor authentication. (ie, Banner, VPN, etc)
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