Category: text message

  • Who Is Still Using Text Messaging For Multi-Factor Authentication

    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…

  • Impact of Removing SMS As an MFA Method In Azure AD

    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…