From the course: Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Online
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MFA configuration - Microsoft 365 Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Online
MFA configuration
- [Instructor] Multi-factor authentication allows you to have something that you know, such as your username and password, and something that you have such as your smartphone with the Microsoft Authenticator app or text messaging, something like that. And that allows that second authentication to keep your particular account safe when you log in. And there's multiple different ways that this can be configured. So, let's take a look under active users in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. We do not configure this in the Exchange Admin Center. It's only configured here. So, let's take the multi-factor authentication link and go ahead and click on it. And when I do, it's going to open up a new tab and it's going to go to account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com. So, here I see the different users and we can see that multi-factor authentication is turned off for all of them. So, I'm going to select Jen, for instance, and…