This July, Azure teams will begin rolling out additional tenant-level security measures to require multi-factor authentication (MFA). Establishing this security baseline at the tenant level puts in p...
Updated May 17, 2024
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Does this apply to portal.office.com?
We're going to need this
Exceptions: While there will be no opt-out, an exception process will be provided for cases where no workaround is available. Details for the exception process will be shared via official notifications.
We will need Microsoft to better support external MFA providers. External Auth for MFA is still in preview, July is coming, and it's use is kludgy. It preferences Microsoft MFA, but the user flow is DUO for us (currently configured as a condition of access through custom controls).
Having the Microsoft impose registration for Microsoft MFA, for things like aka.ms/mysecurityinfo (a thing most of our population does NOT use) is going to cause a lot of angry help desk calls. We would like the GA of external auth providers to both allow those providers to be the default, and have the ability to add them or exclusively select them in Authentication Strengths (omitting all of the MS options).