System-preferred authentication
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Rank Credential Category Meets requirement for 1 Temporary Access Pass (TAP) Recovery 1FA + MFA 2 Passkey1 Phishing-resistant 1FA + MFA 3 [added: External multifactor authentication (MFA) – MFA 4] Certificate-based authentication (CBA) Phishing-resistant 1FA or 1FA + MFA[removed: 4][added: 5] Microsoft Authenticator notifications Passwordless 1FA +[removed: MFA 5 External multifactor authentication (MFA) —]MFA 6 Time-based one-time password (TOTP)2 — MFA 7 Telephony3 — MFA 8 QR code Frontline worker 1FA 9 Password — 1FA
Before: Rank Credential Category Meets requirement for 1 Temporary Access Pass (TAP) Recovery 1FA + MFA 2 Passkey1 Phishing-resistant 1FA + MFA 3 Certificate-based authentication (CBA) Phishing-resistant 1FA or 1FA + MFA 4 Microsoft Authenticator notifications Passwordless 1FA + MFA 5 External multifactor authentication (MFA) — MFA 6 Time-based one-time password (TOTP)2 — MFA 7 Telephony3 — MFA 8 QR code Frontline worker 1FA 9 Password — 1FA
After: Rank Credential Category Meets requirement for 1 Temporary Access Pass (TAP) Recovery 1FA + MFA 2 Passkey1 Phishing-resistant 1FA + MFA 3 External multifactor authentication (MFA) – MFA 4 Certificate-based authentication (CBA) Phishing-resistant 1FA or 1FA + MFA 5 Microsoft Authenticator notifications Passwordless 1FA + MFA 6 Time-based one-time password (TOTP)2 — MFA 7 Telephony3 — MFA 8 QR code Frontline worker 1FA 9 Password — 1FA
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Observation details
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 3 Nov 00:58 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 2 Nov 23:36 UTC
- Microsoft's latest commit in that period
- Reorder authentication methods in documentation · committed 29 Oct 15:23 UTC · View diff
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 23:18 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 12:48 UTC
- Next check due
- today 18:48 UTC
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