Office 365: Don't Require Microsoft Authenticator and Enable SMS

Modified on Thu, 4 Dec at 2:56 PM

By default, in a new tenant, security defaults are turned on. This means it will force you to use Microsoft Authenticator. We want to give the user the option to use SMS. This may not be valid for administrators. This change may take an hour to take effect.


Entra Authentication Methods

Click on SMS, enable and save.


Entra Authentication Registration Campaign

Click on Edit, change State to Disabled and add to the excluded users list the group named like the tenant which includes all users.


Entra Authentication Settings

Change System-preferred multifactor authentication to Disabled.



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