Office 2013 Modern Auth Public Preview

[EduTech]

Today we are pleased to announce that Office 2013 client modern authentication features have moved from private preview to public preview. This means the program is easier to join and production support is included for participants. Modern authentication brings Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based sign in to Office 2013 Windows clients. Previously, this was only available as a private preview for testing. Now modern authentication is available to any customer running the March 2015 or later update for Office 2013. It will continue to be off by default in the client, but can be enabled on Windows machines by participants in the public preview.

 

I know that a few of you on here were interested in using Multi-Factor Authentication in Outlook etc. This was only available using Application Passwords previously and so now with Modern Auth Clients you can try this out and use the proper Authentication Flow. (Similar to Browser)

 

Office 2013 modern authentication public preview announced - Office Blogs

 

Enjoy!

 

James.

[gshaw]

Am I correct in thinking that this will make Outlook basically SSO on first run now?

[Winner]

We have joined the public preview and I can confirm that users no longer need to sign in to Outlook, silent SSO occurs from our ADFS server (2012 R2). Just a heads up though, it didn't work "out of the box", initially everyone received a forms authentication window from the ADFS rather than the basic authentication dialog. By chance we came across a blog post here that indicated we did not have an ADFS endpoint enabled. After running the Powershell command mentioned in the article SSO started working.

[Marshall_IT]

This might make doing a full adfs setup worth doing!