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Heh. This reminds me of something else with using Microsoft. My employer uses Office365 with a smart card authentication for email. In order to use the encrypti
by kop316 8y ago
Heh. This reminds me of something else with using Microsoft. My employer uses Office365 with a smart card authentication for email. In order to use the encryption features, you have to enable an activeX plugin from Microsoft. Microsoft Edge does not trust the Microsoft published plugin and disables it every time I boot up Edge (EDIT: I should note even when I attempt to enable it, it shows up as "disabled" on the extension tabs, and I have never gotten encryption/signing working on Edge). It only works on Internet Explorer (which Microsoft is actively trying to get people off).
I get the impression they don't do extensive Q&A with their products.
- JoshuaJB 8y agoEh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain, many of them legacy. Smart card authentication has worked great in Edge on Office 365 for years without any plugins at Microsoft, so I imagine your employer has got the wrong box checked somewhere triggering a fall back to ActiveX.
- kop316 8y agoSo the smart card authentication works (I can log in), it's using the smart card to encrypt/sign emails.
- JoshuaJB 8y agoOh, I could certainly see that. I don't recall encryption/signing working very well in the best of cases. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest submitting a bug report (I think there's a button somewhere in the O365 web interface). ActiveX is very deprecated and likely will be removed from Edge as part of the move to Chromium (just my personal speculation - I don't know if that's the official plan).
- ska 8y agoEh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain In microsofts case, this is partially self-inflicted, and cultural.
- jdsully 8y agoEnterprises want options. How else are they going to disable solitaire and make work as miserable as possible?