For the longest time, if you needed to connect to the Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance center with PowerShell you needed to allow WinRM to use basic authentication.
If you therefore ran my connection script:
https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/blob/master/o365-connect-sac.ps1
you’d see the above error if you didn’t have WinRM enabled for basic authentication.
Having WinRM enabled with basic authentication is not a best practice for security, and I’m happy to report that if you update you ExchangeOnlineManagement PowerShell to version 3.2.0 you’ll now no longer need WinRM at all!
My connection script will auto update your environment for you when it runs.
I’m glad to see this update as it means I can again connect to the Microsoft Security and Compliance center in my locked down environment.
CIAOPS 
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