Mac Mail And Microsoft Mfa

03.04.2020

In order to use Mac Mail with MFA, you will need to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave or newer. While performing an upgrade is straight-forward, you may want assistance from local support before proceeding. If you do not wish to upgrade at this time, the recommended application, Microsoft Outlook for Mac works with older versions of macOS. From your desktop, open Apple Mail (You may also access Add Account from System Preferences/Internet Accounts.) Note: If you already have an Exchange account configured you will need to click the minus (-) sign located at the bottom left of the 'Accounts' window. This will remove the old Exchange account.

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If your mac OS X is older than 10.14, you will not be able to access your email with Apple Mail once MFA is enabled on your account. However, you may still access your email from your preferred web browser at outlook.office365.com. Because Microsoft is retiring basic authentication in October of 2020. Mac Mail - MFA window stuck on loading after tapping approve on Authenticator App Hey all, Having an odd situation on a Macbook running MacOS Catalina when adding an Office365 account to Mac Mail that we've just enabled the new Security Defaults on that Microsoft are enforcing.

This article applies to both Office 365 Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Enterprise.

Modern Authentication enables Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based sign-in for Office client apps across different platforms. This enables sign-in features such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), smart card, and certificate-based authentication.

Learn more about multi-factor authentication and certificate-based authentication.

Supported platforms

Windows 10 Desktop
Windows 10 Modern Apps
Web browsers¹
Android²
iOS
macOS

For more information about platform support in Office 365, see System requirements for Office 365.

Supported clients

The latest versions of the following clients support modern authentication:

Access	Azure Portal	Company Portal	Delve	Dynamics 365
Edge	Excel	Flow	Forms	Kaizala
Office.com	Office 365 Admin	Office Lens	OneDrive	OneNote
Outlook	Planner	PowerApps	Power BI	PowerPoint
Project	Publisher	Sharepoint	Skype for Business¹	StaffHub
Sticky Notes	Stream	Sway	Teams	To Do
Visio	Whiteboard¹,²	Word	Yammer	Yammer Notifier

Supported PowerShell modules