Authentication methods policy
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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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
- Manage authentication methods for Microsoft Entra ID
- Feedback
- Additional resources
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 19:19 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 27 Mar 05:06 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 00:53 UTC
- Next check due
- today 06:53 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 19:19 UTC- 2 dates
- 6 undated sections
- 7 with conditions
- AnnouncedMarch 2023 Now: Planned; nothing changes yet
- 3 years agomonth windowAnnounced
- 12 months agobeginning
Requirements, exceptions and scope
The Authentication methods policy is the recommended way to manage authentication methods, including modern methods like passwordless authentication. Authentication Policy Administrators can edit this policy…
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.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 12 Oct 19:19 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 · 3
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- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · 14 candidates
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC · 15 candidates
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC · 15 candidates
Microsoft's edits
History on GitHubCommits 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.
Related public evidence
- Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026Combined security information registration
- Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026Conditional Access authentication strengths for guests
- Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026Authentication registration campaigns
- Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026MFA NPS extension
- Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026Require MFA authentication strength
- Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026Mandatory MFA enforcement
Retained observations
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · shown above
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC
Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
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