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Azure AD authentication to Windows VMs in Azure now in public preview

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Dec 12, 2019
Howdy folks,    I’m excited to announce that Azure AD authentication to Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure is now available in public preview—giving you the ability to manage and control who...
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Stephen Palmstrom
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Jan 26, 2021

VoonSengHong Thank you for your help.  I am sorry to be a nuisance.

I could only find Conditional Access by searching for it, and New Policy is greyed out.  It seems I need Azure AD Premium to enable policies, or have I misunderstood something?

I disabled MFA on my account and logged in, only to be told that my account was configured not to allow me to log in to the machine.  That is despite my being a member of the Administrators and Remote Desktop Users group. I had hoped that logging in with a password would then let me set up login with a PIN.