#Microsoft security defaults registration#
#Microsoft security defaults verification#
#Microsoft security defaults code#

You can disable security defaults if you wish, even after they have been enabled, if desired per the details in the above link. Then, starting in late June, they’ll receive following prompt during sign-in”īeing it is now June 2022, this process has commenced. Global admins of eligible tenants will be notified through email and the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Specifically, we will start with customers who aren’t using Conditional Access, haven’t used security defaults before, and aren’t actively using legacy authentication clients. “Based on usage patterns, we’ll start with organizations that are a good fit for security defaults.

Raising the Baseline Security of all organizations in the World Why this is important is because Microsoft will be enabling security defaults on ALL tenants as detailed here: It is therefore the case that if you enable security defaults for a tenant, all users, INCLUDING any external guest users, will be REQUIRED to enable MFA to access resources inside that tenant.

#Microsoft security defaults registration#

Selecting Next will take you through the standard MFA registration process as you see above.

#Microsoft security defaults code#

I then went in an enabled security defaults for the tenant.Īfter a few minutes wait to let the policies kick in I tried to login as the external guest user again to Microsoft Teams directly, and after providing a login and getting an email code I was prompted to enable MFA for the user as seen above. I tried this a few times to ensure they could access the Team without needing anything but the usual email code. Next, I invited that same user to a Microsoft Team inside that tenant.Īnd they could access that Team using the normal email code authentication process. I also verified that they appeared in the Azure AD for that tenant.

#Microsoft security defaults verification#

Using the email code verification process. That user went through the expected process of connecting to the tenant. I took a generic Gmail account I use and invited that user into a demo tenant that didn’t have security defaults enabled. So it looks as though it does indeed appear that security defaults applies to external guest users but I wanted to be sure. “Follow up from the product group… Security defaults should apply to guest users as well.” Which has a response from someone at Microsoft and it says: After some digging I came across this post:Īll users should be changed to all “member” users

Interestingly, none of the documentation seems to call out specifically whether “all users” does in fact include external guest users. The question is does “all users” include external guest users who have been invite into a tenant for collaboration on Microsoft Teams say? This is important because Microsoft is starting to enforce security defaults on all tenants. A user’s 14-day period begins after their first successful interactive sign-in after enabling security defaults. After the 14 days have passed, the user can’t sign in until registration is completed. Users have 14 days to register for Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication by using the Microsoft Authenticator app. Require all users to register for Azure AD Multi FactorĪll users in your tenant must register for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the form of the Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. Here is the documentation for security defaults:Īnd when enabled one of the things it will do is: A really good questions that I came across was whether enabling security defaults on a tenant will enforce MFA for external guest users.