How To Turn Off MFA for Azure development account

Stephen Guerrier 5

I recently have Azure dev account enabled. My issue is sign in to admin centre prompted for mfa code only option.As this account has one user how do I get mfa turned off?

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Givary-MSFT 32,581 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-09-28T10:03:34.0933333+00:00

Hi @Stephen Guerrier Thank you for reaching out to us, could you provide more details on how this Azure dev account is created/enabled.

If you know the Global admin of the tenant where this account is created, with the help of Global admin you can disable the mfa for the account (having mfa on the account is a secured option).

Similar requirement disabling mfa for a user has been discussed here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/23371/how-to-disable-mfa-from-azure-ad

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/101179/how-to-disable-the-two-factor-authentication-from

As mentioned above, please work with your Global admin account to have mfa disabled on the account.

Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.

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Givary-MSFT 32,581 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-09-28T11:19:12.6666667+00:00

@Stephen Guerrier Thank you for your feedback, if you are itself Global admin account, I believe then MFA is being triggered via Security defaults, you can disable it (though it is not recommended), what is security defaults - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-defaults

Please review the security guidelines for Global admin accounts - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles?view=o365-worldwide#:~:text=admin%20roles.-,Security%20guidelines%20for%20assigning%20roles,-Because%20admins%20have

Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back or we can connect offline to discuss further on this.

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Givary-MSFT 32,581 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-04T04:25:28.1666667+00:00

@Stephen Guerrier Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.

Stephen Guerrier 5 Reputation points

2023-10-04T11:01:56.04+00:00

Hello. I am the only global admin. I cannot turn off security defaults as continually being prompted for mfa. How else can I work around this

Givary-MSFT 32,581 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-04T11:07:18.9366667+00:00

@Stephen Guerrier Please send me an email to 'AzCommunity@microsoft.com' with Sub - Attn: Givary and following details in the email body:

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