Multi Factor Authentication

The last thing you want to happen is when your (global) admin accounts are compromised. One easy way to avoid this is to enable multi factor authentication or MFA for you tenant admin accounts.

To achieve this, go to the Office 365 admin center and select the active users. Click More and select Multifactor Authentication setup as shown below:

Active_Users

You’ll see a list of all users in your organization that have MFA enabled. If this is the first time you’re here, most likely all users will have MFA set to disabled.

To show only the Global Administrators select Global Administrators in the View dropdown box. Select the Global Administrator and select Enable under Quick Steps.

MFA_Enable

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It’s a good thing to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Office 365 administrators. For web based management portals this is not a problem, just enter your username and password, wait for the text message to arrive, enter it in the additional dialog box and you’re in.

For PowerShell this has been more difficult, but MFA for PowerShell is available as well for some time now. When you login to the Exchange Admin Center and select hybrid in the navigation pane you can configure a hybrid environment (first option) or install and configure the Exchange Online PowerShell MFA module.

Click on the second configure button, and in the pop-up box that appears click Open to start the installation of the PowerShell module: