Written by Greg Keyzer and Joao Miguel Mesquita

Microsoft reminded business customers using older versions of Outlook that they only have two months to update Before your access to the company’s Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services is interrupted. ” After November 1, 2021, only Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 (with the latest fixes) and later versions will be able to connect to Microsoft 365 services “And The company said in NSregister.

Last year, Microsoft stopped supporting older versions of Office associated with its services Online, such as Exchange Online, as of October 13, 2020. Affected versions of Office included Office 2007, which has already been discontinued. Office 2010, which will no longer be supported on the same date, October 13th; and Office 2013, which should receive support until April 2023. The end of support services has been in the process of brewing since 2017.

At the time, Microsoft was surprisingly sympathetic, saying that while support has officially ended, that doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the connection. “We will not take any active steps to prevent other versions of the Office client, such as Office 2013, from connecting to Office 365 services, but these legacy customers may experience performance or reliability issues over time,” the company spokesperson said at the time.

This is what is changing now. The November deadline separates older Outlook clients from Microsoft services . Microsoft has clarified that older Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 clients will be incompatible with two future changes to the service, Including the end of basic authentication support (basically, the default long username and password combination), which was delayed in February 2021, however, Microsoft hasn’t said when it will no longer support Basic Authentication .

For those of you who haven’t gotten rid of your old Outlook clients, Microsoft They recommend switching to an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription model, which provides always up-to-date client software.