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Basic Authentication - OAS iBot/Job eMail Delivered Agents

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Tim Ouimet
Tim Ouimet Rank 4 - Community Specialist
in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hi Friends! Long time lurker here.

We've been an OBIEE/OAS customer for 14 years.

We've extensively used delivered reporting via e-mail for that entire time.

Microsoft has recently put a proper date on Basic Authentication being deprecated, and that's going to sink our reporting configuration. I've opened tickets with support - to no avail.

What alternatives do you utilize for on-premise e-mail delivered reports? How are you planning to work around Basic Auth no longer being an option?

OAuth authentication isn't currently available even in 7.4.

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  • GayathriAnand-Oracle
    GayathriAnand-Oracle Mod

    Hi

    Support for OAuth authentication is in the roadmap/in the works for OAC. I do not know of specific timelines for OAS. @Alan Lee - Oracle-Oracle Any input on this ask for OAS?

    Thanks

    Gayathri

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Hi Tim,

    I did read randomly about those changes with the Microsoft SMTP, but didn't have to handle them myself so far…

    Some ideas while waiting a more official reply on what the roadmap has for that.

    I believe that even for Microsoft there is generally a way to configure things to use the SMTP without authentication, it is just annoying to configure fully (Google has the same: an annoying config to avoid proper authentication).

    Something that is maybe more usable as workaround waiting for an official support for the new authentication would be to use a SMTP proxy, or SMTP relay.

    You install it locally, and that one will act as "dumb" SMTP without any authentication. The proxy/relay will then be handling the secure authentication with the Microsoft SMTP and simply forward all the messages there. Just make sure to protect your proxy/relay correctly because it would just be like a password-less SMTP exposed on the network.

    The proxy/relay solution would be my workaround waiting for OAS 2025 with a native support for the new authentication (assuming it will come).