Enabling MFA for Azure portal users

Question

I got an email with subject:

Action required: Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant by 15 October 2024

This account is a pay as you go account for personal use. I dont have any tenants. Do I still need to do this? I cant call Connect-MgGraph -Scopes Directory.Read.All, AuditLog.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All as I use a personal email not school or work for this account. Please help.

Answer 1

@Saurabh Gupta

Thank you for posting this in Microsoft Q&A.

As I understand you are currently using pay as you go account for personal use. You want to know if your account will be enforced for MFA post October 15th.

Starting in October 15, 2024, enforcement for MFA at sign-in for the Azure portal , Entra portal and Intune portal will roll out gradually to all tenants. This phase will not impact any other Azure clients, such as Azure CLI , Azure PowerShell and IaC tools. This phase is expected to last until March 2025.

Starting in early 2025, enforcement for MFA at sign-in for Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), Azure PowerShell and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools will gradually roll out to all tenants.

For both phases, Microsoft will notify global admins about the expected enforcement date of your tenant(s) by email and through Azure Service Notifications, 60 days in advance. The countdown for enforcement for your tenant(s) does not begin until you have received this first notification from us. Additionally, we will send out periodic reminders to global admins at a regular cadence between the first notification and the beginning of enforcement for your tenant(s).

We will also allow a grace period for select customers with use cases where no workarounds are easily available and who need additional time (beyond the start date of enforcement for their tenants) to prepare for the MFA requirement at Azure sign-in. The first notification from us stating the enforcement date for your tenant(s) will also include a link to apply for the grace period. Additional details on customer types, use cases and scenarios that are eligible for grace period will be included in the notification.

Currently you do not have to set up MFA for your account. Once this change is pushed to your tenant, your account will be prompted to set up MFA in the login page itself.

Let us know if you have any further questions on this.

Please "Accept the answer" if the information helped you. This will help us and others in the community as well.