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Mandatory MFA enforcement

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Observation details · observed 23 Oct 09:22 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
23 Oct 09:22 UTC
Source update metadata
6 Oct 17:42 UTC
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 17:50 UTC
Last successful check
today 04:15 UTC
Next check due
today 10:15 UTC

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Timeline

From the capture of 23 Oct 09:22 UTC
Every published date has passed October 2025 most recent · 12 months ago
  1. Enforcedsecond half of 2024 Enforced; the override no longer helps
  2. EnforcedFebruary 2025 Enforced; the override no longer helps
  3. Enforced30 Sep 2025 Now: Enforced; the override no longer helps
  4. Enforced1 Oct 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 22 months agohalf windowEnforced
  2. 24 months agomonth window
  3. 20 months agomonth windowEnforced
  4. 13 months agountilEnforced
  5. 13 months agostartingEnforced · unconfirmed
  6. 12 months agomonth window
    • GuidanceMilestone
      That's why, starting in 2024, we'll enforce mandatory MFA for all Azure sign-in attempts. For more background about this requirement, see our blog posts Azure…

Settings and overrides named on this page

Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.

  • UsernamePasswordCredential

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.

Observed history and review priority

Captured 23 Oct 09:22 UTC; extracted 23 Oct 09:22 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

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

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 2 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 · 20

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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 today 00:18 UTC.

  1. Spelling fixes (#2125) Served on LearnView diff
  2. Confirm merge from repo_sync_working_branch to main to sync with https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/entra-docs (branch main) (#13778) View diff
  3. Update passkey links in authentication docs View diff
  4. Address review feedback: fix retirement claim, update stale names, update ms.date AB#556043 View diff
  5. Remove stale preview tags for external MFA (now GA) View diff
  6. Fix broken internal links — batch 3/7 (20 files) View diff
  7. Add separate Phase 1 and Phase 2 MFA confirmation sections View diff
  8. Update concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication.md View diff
  9. Remove enforcement banner text and image View diff
  10. Add Phase 2 mandatory MFA confirmation steps and screenshot View diff
  11. Restore MSAL Node link pointing to ConfidentialClientApplication View diff
  12. Fix broken links across 18 files View diff
  13. Update MFA enforcement postponement instructions View diff
  14. Clarify process for lifting Phase 2 MFA enforcement View diff
  15. Update MFA enforcement doc with new date and guidance View diff
  16. Merge pull request #9723 from Justinha/mfa-tenant-update View diff
4 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. [BULK UPDATE] Moves metadata to folder level in docfx.json. Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Merge branch 'main' into copilot/reclassify-ms-topic-batch-3 Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Merge branch 'main' into copilot/reclassify-ms-topic-batch-3 Metadata onlyView diff
  4. Reclassify ms.topic values batch 3 (entries 81 to 120) Metadata onlyView diff

Suggested by a shared curated topic and product; not a verified connection (6 items)

Retained observations

  • 23 Oct 09:22 UTC · shown above
  • 12 Oct 19:35 UTC

    The page title or its body outside the tracked passages changed. Review the source for its effect.

  • 6 Oct 17:57 UTC

    1 edited passage (2 words changed), 5 removed passages (about 30 words). No rule matched the changed words; review the source for its effect.

  • 5 Oct 17:50 UTC

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

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

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