App password for service account when using Security Defaults

Copper Contributor

We are using M365 Business Standard licenses and have security defaults enabled. We need to have a service account setup to allow devices (printers, scanners, etc...) to send mail outside our tenant. I cannot find a way to setup an app password or exclude this account from MFA since we can't use conditional access. Is there a way to do this without disabling security defaults? Hoping I'm missing something here.

 

Thanks!

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Although it is not a recommended practice, you can access it like this:
Access:

https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/UserManagement/MultifactorVerification.aspx

Locate your account and disable MFA.

Remember: It is not a recommended practice. It would be ideal to look for other forms of authentication...
Security defaults are "all or nothing", you cannot selectively disable them for specific accounts.