Multifactor authentication
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
- How it works: Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication
- 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
- 1 Apr 17:23 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- 18 Oct 23:34 UTC
- Next check due
- today 23:34 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- 1 undated section
- 2 with conditions
- 4 recorded changes
Requirements, exceptions and scope
If you only use a password to authenticate a user, it leaves an insecure vector for attack. If the password is weak or has been…
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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.
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No longer on the page How it works: Azure AD Multi-Factor AuthenticationMicrosoft's source, commit 2d7589c
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No longer on the page How it works: Azure AD Multi-Factor AuthenticationMicrosoft's source, commit 2d7589c
Observed history and review priority
Captured 12 Oct 19:19 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 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 · 15
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 12 Oct 19:19 UTC · 2 candidates
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC · 4 candidates
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC · 4 candidates
- 1 Apr 16:30 UTC · 2 candidates
- 26 Mar 22:55 UTC · 2 candidates
- 24 Jun 2025 13:49 UTC · 2 candidates
- 9 Dec 2024 04:40 UTC · 2 candidates
- 22 Aug 2024 15:10 UTC · 2 candidates
- 12 Jul 2024 15:26 UTC · 2 candidates
- 28 Jun 2024 17:12 UTC · 2 candidates
- 20 Oct 2023 07:55 UTC · 2 candidates
- 20 Oct 2023 05:59 UTC · 2 candidates
- 18 Sep 2023 15:55 UTC · 2 candidates
- 31 Jul 2023 15:37 UTC · 2 candidates
- 13 Mar 2023 18:29 UTC · 2 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
- Public source · 13 Oct 2026MC1450134: (Updated) Microsoft Entra: Windows Hello for Business and macOS Platform SSO as standalone MFA factors
- 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 2026Authentication methods policy
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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