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MFA without a Cellphone
This is becoming a bigger issue more and more. We cannot, as a company, require our Employees to use a personal cellphone to get text codes or install work apps to authenticate our work accounts. ...
Awesome video thank you. If a user needs to access their email or access a SharePoint site on tablet that does not have a USB connection, will they just connect the yubikey to their work laptop and will they be shown the code so that they can type it in on the other device?
The Yubikey is NFC capable, so if the device supports NFC, the Yubico authenticator app on the device can get the code without USB.
- Most of our laptops are not NFC enabled and most of the Samsung tablets also are not. If this is the case, I assume no one will be able to add any Microsoft services that require MFA authentication onto any devices unless it's NFC or has a USB-A input?
And my assumption also is that the code does not get shown to the user on the screen for them to type in? If it did, that's our solution.- I see that they also have USB-C with/without NFC and USB-A ones so I think we should be good. Thank you! I'm going to order one and start testing.
- I just had a thought. If Windows 11 allows the installation of Android apps, could we in theory install the Microsoft Authenticator on a Windows 11 laptop and use that as the authentication? This Yubikey requires its own app to install on Windows 10 so in theory this is the same thing.