Category: text message
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Entra ID Account Recovery End To End (or How To Prove Who You Really Are When Recovering Your Identity in Microsoft 365)
Microsoft Entra ID account recovery is a new end-to-end way to prove your identity when you’ve lost access and standard sign-in methods no longer work. Instead of relying only on passwords or helpdesk intervention, the process uses stronger identity verification, such as document checks and live facial verification, to confirm that you are really the…
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Who Is Still Using Text Messaging For Multi-Factor Authentication
Hopefully not you, but that is not the point of this blog post. The point of this one is to query the sign-in logs in Microsoft Entra ID and report on other users in your tenant, and guest users from outside your tenant, who are still using SMS (text messages). Note that the user might…
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Impact of Removing SMS As an MFA Method In Azure AD
There are a number of general recommendations that SMS (text messages) as an MFA method is not a good idea (mainly to do with the ease of porting or moving devices the number is associated with). You should always be looking at MFA with an app (Microsoft Authenticator or other) or hardware device. But the…