Turning off Basic authentication in the Microsoft 365 admin center does not turn off two legacy services.

Turning off Basic authentication in the Microsoft 365 admin center does not turn off two legacy services.

  • AllowBasicAuthOutlookService 
  • AllowBasicAuthReportingWebServices

These two settings can only be turned off via Exchange Online PowerShell.

Get-AuthenticationPolicy

Set-AuthenticationPolicy -Identity “policy name  ” -AllowBasicAuthReportingWebServices:$false -AllowBasicAuthOutlookService:$false

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