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SandyWood
Copper Contributor
Nov 20, 2025

Best practice using same OneDrive Personal Vault on 2 PCs

Finally configured Personal Vault (should have done this long ago) in our Family OneDrive. When I unlock it, I use a PIN on my Win 11 pc to authenticate. When I login to the same Personal Vault on another PC, a request goes out to the Microsoft Authenticator on my iPhone.

I would love to just let that PC use a PIN to login and not sent a authentication prompt to the Authenticator app. Is there a way to do this?

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  • NikolinoDE's avatar
    NikolinoDE
    Platinum Contributor

    PIN-only unlock on multiple PCs is not supported for OneDrive Personal Vault.

     

    You must authenticate the first time on every new PC

    After that, PIN/Windows Hello works normally

    No way to bypass the initial Authenticator approval

    No setting exists to make every PC unlock using only a PIN

     

    I hope that helped you a little.

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