This option requires all users to register for Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. For the purposes of this article, we assume you are managing MFA in Azure on a per-user basis and not through Conditional Access.īy default, MFA is enabled in a forced mode for all-new Azure tenants by the Azure Security Defaults.

Azure Conditional Access Policy also allows you to enable mandatory Multi-Factor Authentication for global administrator accounts.

In Azure AD, you can manage MFA policies through Azure Conditional Access, available with Azure AD Premium P1 subscription. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to enable or disable MFA for users in Azure Active Directory. Azure Active Directory supports single sign-on authentication with a number of verification options: phone call, text message and one-time password, or mobile app notification. In modern applications, it is recommended to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to provide additional verification method for the authentication process. It used to be that username and password were the most secure way to authenticate a user to an application or service.

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