Retirement Announcement: Approved Client App Conditional Access Grant retiring in March 2026

Question

By March 2026, the require Approved Client App Conditional Access grant will be retired and therefore, this grant will no longer be enforced. If you are using this grant, follow the instructions below to transition over to using the Application Protection Policy grant. 

Answer 1

Before March 2026, follow these instructions to move away from the Approved Client App Conditional Access grant:

Please transition all current Conditional Access policies that use only the Require Approved Client App grant to Require Approved Client App or Application Protection Policy by March 2026. Additionally, for any new Conditional Access policy, only apply the Require application protection policy grant. See here for more details.

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