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Can't setup MFA on Azure personal account
I'm unable to use the az cli with a personal account because of MFA requirements. I have a free trial of Azure which I'm using for some basic testing. I'd like to deploy some Bicep from az cli, when...
You can’t enable MFA for a personal Microsoft account (e.g. @outlook.com, hotmail.com) in the same way you do for an Azure AD “work or school” account. The https://aka.ms/MFASetup portal only works for organizational tenants. For personal accounts, MFA is managed through Microsoft Account security settings, not Azure AD. To use az cli with MFA enforced on your free trial tenant, you’ll need to either:
- Create an Azure AD tenant with a work/school account (recommended), or
- Switch to device code authentication in az cli, which bypasses the MFA setup portal and works with personal accounts.