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Announcing the public preview of Azure AD support for FIDO2-based passwordless sign-in

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Jul 10, 2019
Howdy folks,   I’m thrilled to let you know that you can now go passwordless with the public preview of FIDO2 security keys support in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)! Many teams across Microso...
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Jul 12, 2019

I contact Office 365 tech support for issue enabled "Authentication method policy (Preview)" but not show the new authentication methods appeared in my Office 365 tenant.

 

Below is tech support suggest me to use powershell for enable passwordless authentication method

 

  1. Search  windows powershell  in your computer ,right click powershell and choose run as an administrator
  2. To confirm whether you have this version installed ,run : Get-Module -Name AzureAD -ListAvailable  
  3. If you currently have the Azure AD PowerShell module installed and it’s not at least version 2.0.2.5, you’ll need to uninstall it. To do this, run:

    Uninstall-Module -Name AzureAd

  4. If you don’t have the Azure AD PowerShell module installed, or you’ve just uninstalled it, you’ll need to install it by running:

    Install-Module -Name AzureADPreview

  5. Enabling Passwordless Authentication for a single Office 365 tenant, run:

    Connect-AzureAD

    New-AzureADPolicy -Type AuthenticatorAppSignInPolicy -Definition '{"AuthenticatorAppSignInPolicy":{"Enabled":true}}' -isOrganizationDefault $true -DisplayName AuthenticatorAppSignIn