In contrast, logging in to the SharePoint Online site does not require MFA, as seen in the demonstration below. Note: Using security defaults does not provide granular control over the security settings applied to the whole organization. STEP 3: Now its time to go ahead with the settings for MFA. STEP 1: From the Azure portal go to Azure Active Directory, and click on Conditional Access, Named locations, and finally click on New location. (For this manual I’ve just added a group), STEP 6: Now we can select cloud apps to enforce this policy on. Thank you for this! Enforcing MFA through conditional access policies gives you multiple configuration options as to how to control access to Office 365 services. Luckily, there’s more than one layer of security available to protect Office 365 users’ identities; Multi-factor Authentication or MFA. You’ve also learned the difference in MFA user experience, depending on how MFA was enabled. Typically, these are: Think of MFA is like the vitamin that you take. Click on the New policy button to start creating a new policy. You can also use the named location to assign countries and/or locations where you can always enforce MFA if you want to. Users will not notice that MFA has been enabled right away, especially if they’re already logged in to Office 365. Once you enable the security defaults, those scripts may stop working. Conditional Access extends your authentication requirements out to federated 3rd party services so that you can protect not only your own assets, but access to those assets hosted in a SaaS style model. Then, click on the user from the list. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I hope that the knowledge you gained in this article helps you become aware of how MFA can help your organization protect users from identity-related attacks. If you want to mark your locations as trusted location, you can do that if you have a static public IP. A single user who is insufficiently informed about the dangers of threats like phishing could very well be the entry point for these malicious activities. It provides additional configuration options via the Azure portal, advanced reporting, and support for a range of on-premises and cloud applications. To reset a user’s MFA registration, log in to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. STEP 9: Fill in the name of your Policy and make sure that it is enabled and click create. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The next time you have questions or concerns about MFA, maybe you don’t have to go straight to Office support agents right away for help and try things out on your own. Click on New policy, STEP 5: First we will assign the users that the policy applies to. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Typically, there’s also an option to specify a phone number where the user can receive the authentication code as a text message. You must have the Azure MFA user state set to disabled, and a CA policy configured to require multi factor authentication for CA based settings to apply, Microsoft provide some detail on the enrollment process and status when using Azure MFA.

Conditional Access for the Office 365 suite gives admins the ability to assign a single conditional access policy across the Office 365 suite of services and apps with one click, or one umbrella app as I like to call it. ( Log Out /  The point is, preventing credential theft is better than reacting to it after it has already happened. Important to know is that Office 365 MFA is free of charge, and if you have Azure AD applications an Azure AD Premium license is required. STEP 8: On the Grant tab make sure that you Grant access, and mark the checkbox for Require multi-factor authentication. From Azure Active Directory click on MFA, and choose Additional cloud-based MFA settings. I was pulling my hair out trying to understand why things needed to be configured so oddly and didn’t realize that Azure MFA was NOT the same as CA MFA. Unlike when MFA was enabled from security defaults, there is no option to skip the MFA registration when using conditional access policies. Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) is an added security feature from Azure which I believe that should be enabled by default for everybody in Office 365 and Azure. Hardware tokens for Azure MFA for Office 365 are gaining popularity, and I can see the trend towards integrated biometrics gradually phasing out password usage. I've recently bought a P1 license to use conditional access but when I enable it the prompt comes back. Conditional Access policies can only be created in Report-Only mode if the security defaults are enabled in your tenant. There are a few ways to reset the MFA registration of a user. Change ). You don’t like it, and sometimes it is annoying. This article only covers the “how”. In fact, the process literally involves flicking just one switch. View all posts by jkindon, Azure, Cloud, MFA, NetScaler, Office 365, Uncategorized. Now, with the introduction of MFA conditional access for Office 365 applications, things have changed and in some regards the service is even superior to AD FS. This is just one example of using conditional access policies to control access to Office 365 and enable MFA. Using Conditional access we can ensure that your users and company data is safe. Note: For older apps and protocols that do not support using modern authentication and MFA, app passwords may be used instead.