Recently Microsoft announced that they updated their authentication methods both on Azure and Office 365 as default security. Some accessing problems occurred after Microsoft announced the MFA as the default security. Even IT Staff who work for our company couldn’t access their Office365 services. We downloaded Authenticator which was published by Microsoft on Google Play Store and Apple Store but we couldn’t even access our emails via desktop apps.
Anyway, we decided to disable the MFA for our company and our clients for a while.
If you are looking for how to disable multi-factor authentication on Office 365, you will see how to do in this article.
How to Disable Manage Security Defaults?
- Log in portal.azure.com as a tenant admin account. This account may be your onmicrosoft.com account.
- Click on the Azure Active Directory at the bottom of the website and follow the given steps below.
- Properties > Manage Security defaults > Enable Security defaults > Leave it as No.
It will be shown as below.
+ Update 10/12/2023
I decided to update the post because of changes on the Microsoft side. Azure Directory continues its life with the new name Microsoft Entra.
- Log in entra.microsoft.com as a tenant admin account. This account may be your onmicrosoft.com account.
- Click on the Overview link under the Identity section then follow the given steps below.
- Overview > Properties > Manage Security defaults > Enable Security defaults > Security defaults > Disabled (not recommended) then click on the Save button.
After this change, the MFA will be disabled and there is no need to use authentication anymore.
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