
You can set it up with an address, your own domain but also. It behaves a lot like a personal (hosted) Exchange or Office 365 account but for free. If your email software/app uses one of these basic authentication methods, you will need to update it to use modern authentication or change to different email software/app that's listed above. Using an account is a great alternative for your current POP3 or IMAP account if you want to sync your emails, contacts and calendar items with multiple devices such as your desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet or smartphone. The following basic authentication methods are not supported: Modern authentication completely supports multifactor authentication (MFA) which is a key security service for protecting our University against cyber threats. By using this system, you acknowledge notice of and agree to comply with ITS and University Policies, Standards and Procedures, which are available at: ITS Policies, Procedures and Guidelines and UNC Policies, Standards and Procedures. Supported authentication methodsĪs of October 2021, only modern authentication methods are supported. The Office 365 system is owned and operated by Microsoft. This is necessary because older versions of Outlook do not support modern authentication methods.Ĭan I use other email software/apps? You may be able to use other email software/apps that support modern authentication, but we don’t recommend them as we don’t support or provide instructions for these. If you are using an older version of Outlook, please update to a newer version, which you can get from.

Once your Microsoft 365 apps are installed, go to the start menu and search for. We support the following versions of Outlook: Learn how to configure your work email in Outlook with this simple tutorial.
