{"id":1334,"date":"2021-02-10T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=1334"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:36:56","slug":"how-to-set-up-an-office-365-account-with-2fa-already-set-up-for-an-end-user","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-set-up-an-office-365-account-with-2fa-already-set-up-for-an-end-user\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up an Office 365 Account with 2FA already set up for an end user"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article will discuss how we can set up an Office 365 account with Two Factor Authentication enabled and enforced via Text Message \/ SMS and simply provide the credentials to the user.\u00a0 The reason we are doing this is convenience for the end user as they don’t need to go to https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup<\/a> before they are able to use the account.\u00a0 They can immediately add the account to their smartphone or Outlook.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/h3>\n

Add the user as normal in the Admin Console as usual.<\/p>\n

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Step 2<\/h3>\n

The next step is to head over to Azure Active Directory > Dashboard > Users > User > Authentication methods and add their mobile \/ cell number to the Authentication contact info<\/p>\n

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Step 3<\/h3>\n

Head back to Admin > Multifactor Authentication and Enable then Enforce<\/p>\n

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You’re done.\u00a0 Simply provide the email address and password to the end user and it will automatically send the 2FA information to their mobile.<\/p>\n

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This article will discuss how we can set up an Office 365 account with Two Factor Authentication enabled and enforced via Text Message \/ SMS and simply provide the credentials to the user.\u00a0 The reason we are doing this is convenience for the end user as they don’t need to go to https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup before they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[7],"article-tag":[847,846],"class_list":["post-1334","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-office-365","article-tag-2fa","article-tag-two-factor-authentication"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":8},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}