Action required by April 1, 2022: Microsoft will be deprecating Basic Authentication

If you are seeing this notice in your Nylas dashboard, you'll need to take immediate actions to handle these changes. 

This change affects:

  • Exchange Online Accounts (Microsoft 365/Office 365)
  • Exchange Server Accounts in a Hybrid Deployment

This will not affect:

  • Personal Accounts such as Outlook, Hotmail, live.com and MSN.
  • Exchange On-Premise Server Accounts.

Identifying the Affected Accounts

You can use GET /a/{client_id}/accounts to identify the affected accounts.

Here is a sample python script that you can use to get the list of affected accounts. 

import requests
import json
import base64

nylas_client_id=""
nylas_client_secret=""
auth_header = base64.b64encode(nylas_client_secret.encode("utf-8") + b":")

headers = {
b'Content-Type': b'application/json',
b'Authorization': b'Basic ' + auth_header
}

pagination_offset = 0
pagination_limit = 50
exchange_providers = ["eas", "ews"]
exchange_password_accounts = []

while True:
url = "https://api.nylas.com/a/{}/accounts?offset={}&limit={}".format(nylas_client_id, pagination_offset, pagination_limit)
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)

if response.status_code != 200:
break

data = response.json()

if len(data) < pagination_limit:
break

for account in data:
if account.get("provider") in exchange_providers and account.get("authentication_type") == "password":
exchange_password_accounts.append(account)

pagination_offset += len(data)

print(exchange_password_accounts)

Resources

Microsoft Exchange Online and Basic Auth Changes

 

Updated

Was this article helpful?

0 out of 0 found this helpful

Have more questions? Submit a request

Comments

0 comments

Please sign in to leave a comment.