Will OneLogin count for MFA for change on October 15

Question

Microsoft is enforcing multifactor authentication for the tenant admin portals on October 15th. Do third party MFA solutions count? Amazingly unclear. (Okta, OneLogin?) Thanks!

Answer 1

Based on the information provided in the context, it is unclear whether third-party MFA solutions such as OneLogin or Okta will count for MFA for the change on October 15th. However, Microsoft requires partners to use an authentication provider compatible with Microsoft Entra ID that supports the credential method claim. Partners are encouraged to implement MFA that is compatible with Microsoft Entra ID immediately to raise the security baseline of their tenant.

Answer:

It is unclear whether third-party MFA solutions such as OneLogin or Okta will count for MFA for the change on October 15th. However, Microsoft requires partners to use an authentication provider compatible with Microsoft Entra ID that supports the credential method claim. Partners are encouraged to implement MFA that is compatible with Microsoft Entra ID immediately to raise the security baseline of their tenant.

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References:

• Planning for mandatory multifactor authentication for Azure and other administration portals
• Mandating multifactor authentication (MFA) for your partner tenant

Answer 2

@Matt Wright Thank you for reaching out to us, As I understand you are looking for information on enforcing multifactor authentication for the tenant admin portals on October 15th, Does third party MFA solutions count?

We have documented about external authentication methods in this doc - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication#external-authentication-methods-and-identity-providers

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/how-to-authentication-external-method-manage

One of my colleague answered similar ask on QnA - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1918886/duo-to-satisfy-mfa-requirement?page=0&orderby=Helpful#answers

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

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