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The final removal timeline tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's staged plan to disable and eventually remove SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication in Exchange Online. Based on recent discussions, the timeline includes leaving current behavior unchanged through December 2026, disabling SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication by default for existing tenants at the end of December 2026 (with an option for administrators to re-enable it), and making it unavailable by default for new tenants created after that date. This tag is relevant for IT administrators and Exchange Online users tracking the deprecation of legacy authentication methods and planning migration to modern authentication.
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    Exchange Online SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication: 2026 Default Disable and 2027 Removal Timeline

    Microsoft has pushed more runway to organizations still using legacy SMTP AUTH with Basic Authentication in Exchange Online, replacing an earlier hard deadline with a clearer, staged timeline that gives admins more time to inventory, remediate, and migrate—but it also tightens defaults going...
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