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Can't access Microsoft Authenticator for business accounts
Hello. I am the tech support for a small church, where I am the admin for our MS 365 accounts, which are set up as "business accounts". I have been using Microsoft Authenticator for MFA for years. Recently I switched to a new phone and installed Microsoft Authenticator. All of my personal Authenticator accounts transferred over just fine, but all of the church's business accounts say "Scan the QR Code provided by your organization to finish recovering this account". The thing is, I am the "organization" and I don't know how to generate any QR code to recover the accounts. It was suggested that I could do something about this by logging into my Microsoft 365 administrator account, but when I try to log into my admin account, the only MFA option is "enter the code from Microsoft Authenticator". It's not offering a text or alternate email, only Microsoft Authenticator, which is what I'm locked out of. So I'm stuck in a loop. I opened a ticket with Microsoft Support nine days ago. I have received one phone call since then. The support person insisted that they needed to talk to the account's "alternate administrator", which I set up as my pastor, who is pretty computer savvy but not a deep IT person. They tried to call him one time, but he was not available to answer right then. There has been no communication since then. I'm hoping someone in this group can help me figure this out.
Microsoft Feedback Portal account is not working
I changed my Microsoft password a year ago, and it updated everywhere other than the Feedback Portal. As a result, I get an error when I try to login, or do anything on the page. Microsoft account support's suggestion was to login to the Feedback Portal which is insane given I'm having issues accessing it. How can I get this issue resolved? I've got three separate support tickets now and they keep asking me to wait 24 hours to get the issue resolved. Can someone from the Feedback Portal team please contact me to resolve this?" This is what Microsoft Support have said: "understand your frustration, and yes—this is an account‑related issue because the Feedback Portal is still tied to your old alias, which causes login conflicts and forces you out. Your Microsoft account itself signs in correctly, but the Feedback Portal is pulling outdated identity data that you cannot update on your own. Since you cannot access the Portal to submit feedback, directing you back there is not a workable solution. What you need is for Support to escalate this to the internal Identity/Feedback Platform engineering team so they can manually correct the outdated alias mapping on the backend. In this situation, the Feedback Portal and Tech Community teams are the ones who manage and maintain that specific platform. Because the issue appears on the Feedback Portal side—even though your Microsoft account is working normally—only their dedicated team can make the necessary corrections on their end. That’s why we are guiding you to connect with them through the links provided: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ or https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback. They will be able to review the portal‑specific account data and assist you further. I understand why this is frustrating. Since you’re unable to stay signed in to the Feedback Portal, I completely see why posting there isn’t possible for you. However, I do need to be transparent: I’m not able to escalate this issue directly to the Feedback Portal team, as they don’t provide internal escalation channels for us and only accept requests through their own platform. "How Do I Target the Azure VPN Client in a Conditional Access Policy?
I am using the Azure VPN Client to connect users to an Azure VPN Gateway using their Entra ID credentials to authenticate. I want to target this application with a CA policy that requires MFA every time it connects. The problem is that I don't see the applications in my Enterprise Apps and all of my searching says that it won't appear because it was "pre-certified" by Microsoft. In the Gateway setup I used the Audience GUID of c632b3df-fb67-4d84-bdcf-b95ad541b5c8. And this is working as expected. The only solution that I have found for targeting the Azure VPN Client app is to create a Service Principal using that Audience GUID. This seems like a bit of a hack, so I am posting here to see if there are any other methods that I am missing to target this app when it doesn't appear in my Enterprise Apps list.
Hacked Live account
Hello, On of our customers accounts was hacked. This is a Live account linked to his own emailadres (not hotmail) from his Internet Provider. A few weeks ago someone gained access to this account. They changed the recovery email address and the phone number. The customer has a paid Office 36 family account, which is paid for with his MasterCard and he can provide the invoice from the last years.. We tried the account recovery Form multiple times, opened a case with CDOC Case Management. We simply got the reply that they could not do anything but to suspend the account. I Think this is crazy, is there no solution to this ? Thanks,
In "Per-user multifactor authentication" I disabled MFA for one user; All got disabled
Hi, I'm the 365 admin for our org. Today I had a user that got a new phone and became stuck in a MS Authenticator app loop. (The app required MFA to login to the app, but they can't login to the app because they aren't logged into the app. This happened once before, and is a ridiculous Kafkaesque situation; but I digress.) To solve it, I went to disable MFA on their account, allowing them to login to the app. Then MFA could be re-enabled. Problem solved. And indeed that did work. However, on the admin side (per the screenshot) I checked off their user account (the user starting with the letter "B") and hit the "Disable MFA" link. A confirmation appeared asking me if I wanted to disable MFA for all selected users. Because I'm the careful sort, I could still see that only that one user was checked off as the popover div didn't cover that much of the screen. Hence I confirmed that I wanted to disable MFA for the selected users (i.e. that one user). I then refreshed the page, and all users are now shown as having MFA disabled. I'm 100% sure only that one user was selected, not everyone in my org. That would've been foolish. Trying to figure out what's wrong with this portion of the admin site.Graph http 449 throttled
We are experiencing a lot of Microsoft Graph trolling errors from some of our applications that are hosted in Azure Web App Services and other third party such as Front App to name one. I am trying to find an approach or strategy to figure out and narrow down what may be causing so many of these events. Whether I can narrow down by application or process, I am not sure yet. We enforce MFA on all our users, but of course, on Azure Enterprise Applications, we don't, which are used extensively in our ecosystem of apps. Any help is much appreciated here.
Case 2512040040001886 - Cannot Access Account
Since the 4th of December we have been patiently waiting on MS Tech support to assist on resolving our Case with no success endless calls and endless promises with no luck. How do you proceed in using Microsoft for a Business if they don't deliver on the support. My business is taking the brunt of it. I suppose another call holding for hours and another Support person promise a solution. No other methods to log complaints as you cannot log into your Account Portal.
