Real World Computing

Understanding MFA In today's world passwords and pin numbers are simply not enough and muti-factor authentication (MFA) is increasingly required to combat fraud. MFA means that you need to use a secondary form of authentication, such as an app on your phone, in addition to a password when signing into systems.  These instructions walk you through the process of setting up MFA for a user. You may need them if your user switches phones or has to have MFA disabled and re-enabled. In the Admin Portal While technically you could skip this step and go directly to the console via its url, it's probably easier for most people to find their way from the Admin portal, so that's where I'll start. Open the Office 365 Admin Portal . ( https://admin.microsoft.com/ ) Click on Users , then on Active Users Click on the dots at the end of the menu and choose Setup Multifactor Authentication . This will take you to the MFA console.  In the MFA console Click on the M...

Last week, following best practice guidelines, we switched to Multi-Factor Authentication. While it was a little painful at first, it's working well now for our admin team. I'm not sure if or when we'll push this out to our users. It might be too difficult for them. (in fact, personally, I think that Google's token system might be far easier) In any case, as it turns out, we can't login to PowerShell now that MFA is running. A little searching provided the answer. We had to install an extension for PowerShell.  The process is already very well documented , so I won't go over here except to add one observation; You must install it via Edge (or possibly IE) -- it won't install via Chrome.