Authentication migration

Question

I Need to migrate to the converged Authentication methods. I need to know if I do an automatic migration that the users won’t be prompted for anymore authentication. I don’t want to interrupt the 170 or so users when they login and launch Outlook after I do the migration. Are my users going to be affected by this migration? I have an Exchange hybrid configuration with one server on premises (Exchange 2016 v.15.1 build 2507.6). All mailboxes are migrated over to the cloud. Our AD is replicated to Azure AD with Entra. All users access their mailboxes with Outlook 2016, after longing into the domain, with no passwords (Single Sign On). We currently don’t use any other authentication, such as MFA, nor do we plan to, yet. Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Corwin, Don

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum. 

Based on the information you have provided, looks like you want to know if users will be affected during the migration. 

From Microsoft documents, the impact on users should be minimal. 

This is because during the migration, there's a gradual transition from Legacy policy to Authentication methods policy.  

After migration, users should still be able to use Single Sign-On (SSO) as long as the necessary authentication methods for SSO are enabled within the new policy. 

You can read more at Manage authentication methods - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn 

I hope this information helps.

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