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Announcing mandatory multifactor authentication for the Microsoft 365 admin center

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Samer_Baroudi
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Nov 11, 2024

Learn how multifactor authentication (MFA) can protect your organization and how to prepare for the upcoming Microsoft 365 admin center MFA requirement 

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josea
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Nov 27, 2024

How about the AD sync accounts, which is not directly accessing the M365 admin center and sync make changes on M365 admin portal.

Is this sync need to enforce MFA, which will cause issues..?

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JustinHead956
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Jan 07, 2025

The AD sync service account is not signing into the M365 admin center and thus not impacted by the MFA enforcement.