This article details how to view and change the status for per-user Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. For more information on the different ways to enable MFA, see Features and licenses for Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. When users are enabled individually, they perform multi-factor authentication each time they sign in (with some exceptions, such as when they sign in from trusted IP addresses or when the remember MFA on trusted devices feature is turned on).Ĭhanging user states isn't recommended unless your Azure AD licenses don't include Conditional Access and you don't want to use security defaults. If needed, you can instead enable each account for per-user Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. Users are prompted for MFA as needed, but you can't define your own rules to control the behavior. To get started using Conditional Access, see Tutorial: Secure user sign-in events with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication.įor Azure AD free tenants without Conditional Access, you can use security defaults to protect users. Conditional Access is an Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 feature that lets you apply rules to require MFA as needed in certain scenarios. Enabling Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication using Conditional Access policies is the recommended approach to protect users.

If your organization wants to increase the security but you don’t know about how or where to start, then you can start from Security Defaults.To secure user sign-in events in Azure AD, you can require multi-factor authentication (MFA).

If your organization uses free tier of AzureAD licensing, then you can choose Security Defaults.

Users have to register MFA within 14 days, which begins after their first successful sign-in after enabling security defaults. Requires all user to authenticate MFA through the Microsoft Authenticator app.If your tenant is created after October 22, 2019, then Security Defaults are enabled by default.Īdmin can enable or disable Security Defaults from the Azure AD portal –> Azure Active Directory –> Properties –>Manage Security Defaults. You can turn on Security Defaults in the Azure portal. Legacy Per-user based MFA (Not recommended)įor most organizations, security defaults provide an additional level of security with no extra cost. Microsoft has designed to make it available for everyone.You can choose any one of the below methods. In Microsoft 365, MFA can be configured in multiple ways.

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