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I have a strong feeling this is a setting your org has enabled. You reference draconian rules, talk to your admins. I can see how this feature might be useful,

by greazy 4y ago

I have a strong feeling this is a setting your org has enabled. You reference draconian rules, talk to your admins. I can see how this feature might be useful, eg disallowing IE6. But that's taken to the next level of restriction

nhchris 4y ago
The next question is what the setting is called. If it's something like "Allow connections only from trustworthy browsers", then plenty of the guilt should still fall on MS.
- Meph504 4y ago
  detect compliant device (or something very similar) if the device can't be determined to be using things like disk encryption, bio-metrics, an up to date OS, etc.. then access from that client is blocked.
bacchusracine 4y ago
>talk to your admins How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at. Stuff where admins use ridiculous settings are expected to be accepted without feedback.
- Meph504 4y ago
  You likely need to take a step back, and reconsider your position. the browser you choose to use, doesn't support a feature that is required by many cyber security insurance policies. I feel it is very likely that you have been provided with a better method to check your mail on a mobile device than in the browser on your phone. it seems very unlikely that if your company is doing compliance that the suggested method isn't to use the outlook app itself. So it maybe worth considering are the policies and settings ridiculous, or are you?
- greazy 4y ago
  > How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at. Unfortunately this is an org issue. For me at my org we have a help-desk we can email, with an issue number so we can follow up. This system tracks certain metrics which I hope are used to gauge the effectiveness of IT support and infrastructure. When I hit a my limit of bullshit I formatted my machine and installed linux. This is a nuclear option and would not work in other orgs have that locked down machines. For checking email, I would use whatever works. There are bigger battles
technion 4y ago
I believe the error they are seeing is in the screenshot here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/you-cant-get-there-from-here-office-365/af0f5806-3e11-4be5-bab2-56ef703500d1 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/you-c... The problem is that only supported browsers have the "detect compliant device" extension available, which enforces admin settings such as "only allow website access if your device has a encrypted disk".
- Meph504 4y ago
  I believe you've hit the nail on the head, without the compliant restrictions in place, outlook loads fine in firefox on android.

by greazy 4y ago

nhchris 4y ago

The next question is what the setting is called. If it's something like "Allow connections only from trustworthy browsers", then plenty of the guilt should still fall on MS.

Meph504 4y ago
detect compliant device (or something very similar) if the device can't be determined to be using things like disk encryption, bio-metrics, an up to date OS, etc.. then access from that client is blocked.

bacchusracine 4y ago

>talk to your admins How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at. Stuff where admins use ridiculous settings are expected to be accepted without feedback.

Meph504 4y ago
You likely need to take a step back, and reconsider your position. the browser you choose to use, doesn't support a feature that is required by many cyber security insurance policies. I feel it is very likely that you have been provided with a better method to check your mail on a mobile device than in the browser on your phone. it seems very unlikely that if your company is doing compliance that the suggested method isn't to use the outlook app itself. So it maybe worth considering are the policies and settings ridiculous, or are you?
greazy 4y ago
> How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at. Unfortunately this is an org issue. For me at my org we have a help-desk we can email, with an issue number so we can follow up. This system tracks certain metrics which I hope are used to gauge the effectiveness of IT support and infrastructure. When I hit a my limit of bullshit I formatted my machine and installed linux. This is a nuclear option and would not work in other orgs have that locked down machines. For checking email, I would use whatever works. There are bigger battles

technion 4y ago

I believe the error they are seeing is in the screenshot here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/you-cant-get-there-from-here-office-365/af0f5806-3e11-4be5-bab2-56ef703500d1 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/you-c... The problem is that only supported browsers have the "detect compliant device" extension available, which enforces admin settings such as "only allow website access if your device has a encrypted disk".

Meph504 4y ago
I believe you've hit the nail on the head, without the compliant restrictions in place, outlook loads fine in firefox on android.