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Authenticating to O365 using Powershell and MFA
I am running into issues with autheticating to O365 on Powershell and in this case my account has been enabled with MFA.
I already installed the preview from https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2015/10/20/azure-ad-powershell-public-preview-of-support-for-azure-mfa-new-device-management-commands/ and the authentication basically works but then comes in the question on how to authenticate with Exchange Online? I found a post already where a MSFT engineer states that the only way here would be to create a dedicated admin account without MFA enabled but we strictly enabled MFA on admin accounts for security reasons.
I noticed that there are no plans on uservoice (but some suggestions) to enable this. Has anyone already found another solution (except for creating another account without MFA)?
To save everyone from having to read AnnaChu full post: there is now an Exchange Online Powershell module in preview available that supports MFA. I just tested it and it works (so far) as expected. Go to http://aka.ms/exopspreview to download the preview.
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The module only helps with the Azure AD part, Exchange/Skype/SharePoint PowerShell and so on are still not able to take advantage of MFA. And it has been requested a million times already, without any official acknowledgement/confirmation on MS side (that I'm aware of).
