Now try to login to Azure Portal with this user login.ġ1. You can see that MFA status has been changed to ‘Enabled’ now.ġ0. Click on ‘enable multi-factor authentication’.ĩ. Now, select the user from User tab for which you need to enable MFA and click ‘Enable’Ĩ. Here you can see the available option for verification and modify the options as per your choice and need.ħ. At top, there are two section ‘Users’ and ‘Service Settings’. A new window will open for multi-factor authentication.ĥ. After you click it will take you to another website in new tab or window.Ĥ.

Click on Multi-factor authentication at the top.

So, let’s see the demo of how we can enable MFA. If you are using a premium AD service, then its included in that. Microsoft Azure AD supports multi-factor authentication and its available as add on service and a billing model will be associated with it. This way an another layer of security can be added. The authorization, or if user choose the email option then user receive an email with some random numbers which is required other than your password. If a user is authenticating via phone then a text message will come to registered mobile number which is needed during login process to complete

User can add another layer of authentication either via phone, email, authentication app, security tokens etc.

So multi-factor authentication refers more ways to authenticate more than just your password. Once your password is lost its easy for other users to break into your system and steal important information. In today’s world just having a userid and password is not secure enough which contains of letters, symbols, numbers etc. In previous article, we learnt how to set up Azure AD and create users and group, so we will continue to use that user and group for this article. In this article, we will learn how to enable the Azure AD multi-factor Authentication via Azure Portal.

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