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Authentication method capabilities

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Entra · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

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Requirement wording
RemovedMicrosoft Entra authentication overview
[removed: Note]
RemovedMicrosoft Entra authentication overview
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.]
RemovedMicrosoft Entra authentication overview
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Was this page helpful?]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Need help with this topic?]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic?]

Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under MIT. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.

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Sections to inspect

Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.

Why this was flagged

The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.

Observation details · observed 12 Oct 19:50 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
12 Oct 19:50 UTC
Source update metadata
16 Sep 17:38 UTC
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 17:50 UTC
Last successful check
today 19:25 UTC
Next check due
20 Oct 01:25 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 12 Oct 19:50 UTC

Requirements, exceptions and scope

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

18 earlier changes
Observed history and review priority

Captured 12 Oct 19:50 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 21

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 18 Oct 23:18 UTC.

  1. Change Microsoft Authenticator push notifications to No Served on LearnView diff
  2. Fix broken links in authentication docs View diff
  3. Fix broken links, duplicate YAML keys, and missing file extensions View diff
  4. docs: Update account recovery docs with new admin experiences, Verified ID, and relaxed name matching (#73) View diff
  5. auth-external-mfa View diff
  6. Copyedit authentication overview for Microsoft style guidelines View diff
  7. Copyedit and spell check across synced passkey GA files View diff
  8. Remove preview labels for passkeys View diff
  9. Fix link formatting for Platform Credential for macOS in authentication methods table View diff
  10. Learn Editor: Update overview-authentication.md View diff
  11. Update Email OTP reference in overview-authentication.md for clarity and accuracy View diff
  12. Add Email OTP authentication method to overview-authentication.md View diff
  13. Learn Editor: Update overview-authentication.md View diff
  14. Update overview-authentication.md View diff
  15. Clarify coverage description for IDV providers View diff
  16. Redirect and consolidate authentication methods doc View diff
  17. Raise Acrolinx score to passing View diff
  18. fixing acrolinx score View diff
2 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. [BULK UPDATE] User Story 573314: Ensure every doc in MSec repos has an author from MSec Docs (entra-docs-pr 4) (#13372) Metadata onlyView diff
  2. [BULK UPDATE] Moves metadata to folder level in docfx.json. Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 19:50 UTC · shown above
  • 6 Oct 17:57 UTC

    Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.

  • 5 Oct 17:50 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

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