Authentication methods policy
Timelines and exceptionsTimeline
From the capture of 12 Oct 19:19 UTC- 2 dates
- 6 undated sections
- 7 with conditions
- 5 recorded changes
- 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…
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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.
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 · 16
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