Hey everyone! I'm starting to feel pretty overwhelmed with Azure lately. I'm not your typical admin, but I've got to manage some aspects of it. I've set up a few Conditional Access Policies that I think are pretty standard – like blocking legacy sign-ins, enforcing MFA for high-risk users and admins, and app permissions for guests. But now I'm trying to connect an SMTP client with a Global Admin account via OAuth, and I'm hitting a wall. When I test the connection with my email client, it says the login credentials are wrong, but here's the kicker – I can't find any sign of that login attempt in Azure logs! The OAuth connection shows up, but not this one. I've played around with the settings, and now it's working perfectly, but I have no idea why it was failing before. I even set up a second tenant and mirrored the configuration exactly, but I just can't get that to work either and still no login attempts in the logs. What could be blocking this connection? It's driving me crazy!
5 Answers
Have you looked into the non-interactive sign-in logs? Just a heads-up, you're dealing with Entra ID here, not just Azure. That might help you track down those login issues better.
It might take a little while for everything to sync up to the logs after you've made changes. So, give it some time. Sometimes, it's not instant.
Entra does keep a record of sign-in events and behavior under Conditional Access policies. You should check those logs; they might give you a better idea of what's happening.
Things don’t always update in real-time. If you change a CA policy, it might take a little while for the changes to reflect. Also, authenticated sessions might hang around longer than you'd expect.
I’ve been having issues with VMs myself. I set up RBAC and a standard VM, but I couldn’t log in with my email without using a local account. It makes me wonder if there’s a conditional policy causing roadblocks for outside logins.
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