The last step is to verify the changes and confirm that it’s in working order. In a few minutes our new Conditional policy will take affect.Īt this time, you’ll successfully moved from per-user MFA to Conditional Access based MFA. Under Access control > Grant, select Grant access, and enable Require multi-factor autentication. Open the menu and browse to Azure Active Directory > Security > Conditional Access. It’s time to create our new Conditional Access MFA Policy. If some user logs in with their credentials at this time, they will not be asked for MFA. In the previous step, you’ll disabled MFA for all users when running the PowerShell script.

You’ll find both the script and some great documentation by visiting this site on Microsoft Docs. Run the script to disable MFA for all users.

# Sets the MFA requirement state function Set-MfaState # Disable MFA for all users Get-MsolUser -All | Set-MfaState -State Disabled To start our transition from per-user MFA to Conditional Access, you’ll need to start Windows PowerShell as an administrator and connect to Azure AD using the following in cmdlet: In the example below (in norwegian this one.), we have a couple of users who have MFA enabled, some enforced and some others in disabled state. Navigate to Users > Active Users > Multi-factor authentication.Ī new page will open, showing all the users, and their multi-factor autentication status. In my example below, Azure AD Premium P2 is shown. In the portal, navigate to Azure Active Directory > Overview. Conditional Access is at the heart of the new identity driven control plane.” Check Azure AD Premium licenseĬheck first if your organization has either Azure AD Premium Plan 1 og 2. Organizations can utilize these identity signals as part of their access control decisions… Conditional Access is the tool used by Azure Active Directory to bring signals together, to make decisions, and enforce organizational policies. “.The modern security perimeter now extends beyond an organization’s network to include user and device identity. In the blog post, I thought to show how to easily transition from per-user based MFA to a Conditional Access based MFA. Transition from per-user MFA to Conditional Access MFA

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