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The windows wam tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's Windows Web Account Manager and the sign-in plumbing that depends on it. Current discussion centers on Edge 157 retiring its legacy direct-WAM sign-in path in favor of the OneAuth library, a change that affects every Windows profile in the browser. The key clarification running through the thread is that WAM itself is not being deprecated; OneAuth continues to use it internally, so only Edge's direct connection is removed. The coverage also walks through how administrators and testers can validate OneAuth behavior before the November rollout.
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    Edge 157 Retires Direct WAM Sign-In: How to Test OneAuth Before the November Rollout

    Microsoft is retiring the older of the two sign-in paths that Edge has been running on Windows. Starting with Edge 157, every Windows profile will authenticate through the OneAuth library, and the browser's legacy direct-WAM code path will be gone. One point matters more than the rest: Windows...