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System-preferred authentication

Timelines and exceptions · All guidance changes

Entra · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

Observed content change

1 removed passage (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, settings and controls. Review the source to confirm the effect.

May need admin actionCheck the dates against your plans; check the settings the wording names.

Date or deadline wording
RemovedSystem-preferred authentication
[removed: Note The Microsoft managed state behavior affects both first-factor and multifactor authentication and is being gradually deployed to tenants through September 2026. If your tenant or users don't experience system-preferred authentication as the first factor when the State is Microsoft managed, the rollout isn't deployed yet for your tenant.]

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

  • System-preferred authentication

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: dates and deadlines, settings and controls. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.

Observation details · observed 7 Oct 23:38 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
7 Oct 23:38 UTC
Source update metadata
7 Oct 22:34 UTC
Microsoft's latest commit in that period
Remove completed system-preferred rollout note · committed 7 Oct 21:52 UTC · View diff
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 23:18 UTC
Last successful check
today 20:00 UTC
Next check due
21 Oct 02:00 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 7 Oct 23:38 UTC · an earlier observation

Legacy capture: table structure or oversized sections are unavailable for extraction

Microsoft's revision log on this page · 22 entries

Dates from the page's own change log or history section. They describe earlier edits, not upcoming 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.

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.

  2. Postponed +4 weeks System-preferred authenticationMicrosoft's source, commit bd00d7e
    August 2026September 2026
1 earlier change
Observed history and review priority

Captured 7 Oct 23:38 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c/legacy.

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 · 21

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

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 19 Oct 23:56 UTC.

  1. Remove completed system-preferred rollout note Served on LearnView diff
  2. Update system-preferred authentication rollout date View diff
  3. Update Microsoft managed rollout timeline to August 2026 View diff
  4. Add WHfB/macOS PSSO first-factor behavior and federated users FAQ View diff
  5. Change aren't experiencing to don't experience View diff
  6. Update note wording to bold Microsoft managed state View diff
  7. Move rollout note before authentication system paragraph View diff
  8. Add note about Microsoft managed rollout timeline View diff
  9. Copy-edit and secure-doc review fixes View diff
  10. Update system-preferred authentication FAQ and terminology View diff
  11. Bold UI element 'Sign in another way' per style guide View diff
  12. Fix capitalization: Microsoft Managed -> Microsoft managed View diff
  13. Add CBA fallback behavior detail to Important note View diff
  14. Remove 'and enabled' from default state descriptions View diff
  15. Remove screenshot example for Engineering group View diff
  16. Update system-preferred auth instruction to list all three states View diff
  17. Use first-factor and second-factor consistently View diff
  18. Remove sentence about Microsoft managed value being Enabled View diff
2 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. [BULK UPDATE] User Story 573314: Ensure every doc in MSec repos has an author from MSec Docs (entra-docs-pr 4) (#13372) Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Fix invalid ms.topic value: change 'concept' to 'overview' Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 19:50 UTC

    8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 7 Oct 23:38 UTC · shown above
  • 5 Oct 23:18 UTC

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

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.

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