"Modern authentication" and Azure powershell cmdlets

Question

Hello

I have question regarding "Modern authentication" and Azure powershell cmdlets.

If I will use Connect-azuread cmdlet with account, that don't have multi factor authentication enabled, it will work as ""Modern authentication" or it works as "Basic Authentication"?

Here is script example:

 $username = "******@mydomain.com"
 $password = ConvertTo-SecureString "StrongPassword" -AsPlainText -Force
 $cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $password

 Connect-azuread -Credential $cred

Answer 1

Generally speaking, depends on the module. For some modules, when you pass the -Credentials parameter, it uses Basic authentication. For others, it can still perform modern auth, but it will fail if you have MFA in place, as you cannot complete this flow. Anyway, for the Azure AD module, either method results in using Modern auth (assuming recent version).