How to disable new "Multifactor authentication for Microsoft partners and vendors" policy on DEMO TENNANT?

Nikolay Belykh 65 Reputation points
2024-03-19T11:17:16.7933333+00:00

17.03.2024 on all "demo" tenants (CDX) https://cdx.transform.microsoft.com/the MFA policy was enforced for the fake "Contoso" organization. Not for the partner org, but for the demo tenants!!!

This is really troublesome for me as a partner, and makes those demo tenants much less useful!
Is there a way to change this back and disable MFA, so that customers can "play" with the demo?

Once again, the policy talks about "partner" tenants, which actually makes sense; but what is applied to is also the "demo" tenants, which does not. And you can't remove it, it's enforced :(

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  1. Vasil Michev 119.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-03-19T19:07:40.1066667+00:00

    Any "demo" tenant is owned by Microsoft, as clearly stated in their "terms of use", which was also updated to mention the requirement for MFA. So I'm afraid this is the new behavior going forward.

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    You can open a support case with the CDX team if you think you might be able to change their mind.


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  1. Givary-MSFT 35,621 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2024-03-20T06:35:41.8333333+00:00

    @Nikolay Belykh Thank you for reaching out to us, reached out to CDX team to confirm this change, here is the response which I got:

    MFA is being enforced and required for all CDX demo to enhance platform security posture. This is not something our team disable or change, as it is part of a global change to Microsoft demo tenants. Additionally, please note, customer access to demo tenants as described in the post is against CDX Terms of Use. 

    Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back or raised a ticket a with CDX team directly as they don't work/reply on QnA platform.


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