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OneTechBeyond
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Feb 28, 2020

Looking for specific instructions for enabling and configuring MFA for Ofice 365 users

I would like to enable MFA for my Microsoft 365 clients but have a few questions about how to do this. 1. When enabling MFA, how to do enable multiple methods for MFA (i.e. hardware key, biometric...
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OneTechBeyond
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Feb 29, 2020

Thanks, Cian Allner!

 

Also, I recall that there's an MFA method within Office 365 that asks the client app to match the number shown on screen, with one of the three options that show up on their MFA mobile device, rather than entering a six digit code generated from the Microsoft Authenticator app.    


Do you know what the specifics are for setting up that push method of multi-factor authentication?

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Cian Allner
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Mar 02, 2020
OneTechBeyond wrote:

Thanks, Cian Allner!

 

Also, I recall that there's an MFA method within Office 365 that asks the client app to match the number shown on screen, with one of the three options that show up on their MFA mobile device, rather than entering a six digit code generated from the Microsoft Authenticator app.    

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-authentication-passwordless-phone has that option (preview), it requires Azure MFA with push notifications enabled plus some other configuration as mentioned in the link.

 

 

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