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Copper Contributor

Jun 18, 2020

Security Defaults | Disable?

Hi Community, We've been tasked to enable MFA for all users within the organization as per Microsoft's updated security policies. I've done that, however, we're not on AD Premium and I have a fe...

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VasilMichev

MVP

Jun 18, 2020

You can, but since you don't have the necessary license to use CA policies, you wont be able to force MFA the "preferred" way. But if your aim is to disable it, that will certainly work.

ChadPrince
Copper Contributor
Jun 20, 2020
VasilMichev

Update: Disabled Security Defaults on AAD - worked like a charm!
No longer receiving prompts for MFA, however, those users already enrolled for MFA still continues to work as per normal.
Disabling MFA per user also doesn't prompt to re-enroll them.

Thanks for the help, appreciate it!

Regards,
Chad
ChadPrince
Copper Contributor
Jun 18, 2020
VasilMichev
Yes, we prefer not to use MFA as we have multiple devices connected around the world where legacy authentication still applies.
To add, Veeam backups of Office 365 are failing as a result of having MFA Enabled.

Thanks for your response; I will certainly disable Security Defaults and apply the necessary policies to secure the environment.

Regards,
Chad