Vision Pro owners who want to use Office 365 applications through their company have faced one major hurdle until now: Microsoft Authenticator has been missing on the platform — since the headset went on sale in the United States in February. Had – Register a software company to authenticate the device. If this is the case, customers have until now only had to use cloud versions of Excel, Word, and Company; The original version, which Microsoft implemented surprisingly quickly for VisionOS, was abandoned. That’s now changing: The beta version of Microsoft Authenticator for VisionOS has been available for five days for the first time.
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Everything is there except the authenticator
The software is distributed Via Apple’s TestFlight environmentWhich is also available under VisionOS. “Logging in is easy, convenient, and secure when you use Microsoft Authenticator,” writes Microsoft. It’s not possible to say yet how stable the beta is, but it seems to be doing what users expect from it – finally letting them into the apps. In the corporate client context, Microsoft Authenticator has the special feature that the app must run on the device itself to be authenticated. If it is missing there, access is not possible, as is the case with Vision Pro.
Microsoft had already announced in April that it was working on a VisionOS variant of Microsoft Authenticator – at which time the company published the first version of OneNote. How it happened that Microsoft prepared Office apps (including Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint) for VisionOS, but apparently forgot about Microsoft Authenticator, has not been commented on yet.
one thing is still missing
While Microsoft Authenticator is already available for VisionOS, another feature is still missing: use of Microsoft Intune with the headset. Endpoint management systems are now coming to corporate customers like Microsoft roadmap appear to. In addition to VisionOS, “automatic device enrollment” will also be possible for tvOS in the future without user intervention. However, the rollout is said to not begin until April 2025.
Apple has recently once again emphasized the Vision Pro’s merits as a productivity tool. With VisionOS 2.2, the Mac Virtual Display will receive, among other things, a new panorama and widescreen modes.
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