received email Start using Conditional Access in Azure Active Directory by 30 January 2021

Question

I received this email: Start using Conditional Access in Azure Active Directory by 30 January 2021

Directory by 30 January 2021
You're receiving this email because you use the preview of configurable token lifetimes in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Because Conditional Access in Azure AD provides granular controls for sign-in frequency, we'll retire the preview of configurable token lifetimes for refresh and session tokens on 30 January 2021.

I do not understand anything what this email means to me. Please can you explain in a layman's terms or I will ignore this email.

Answer 1

Hi @sachin sontakke ,

Thanks for the question. The email means that if you are using configurable token lifetimes to define a time period before a user is asked to sign in again in Azure AD, Azure AD will stop honoring these after January 30 and the session tokens will be set to their default configuration rather than the custom configuration.

If you need to continue to define the time period before a user is asked to sign in again, you can configure sign-in frequency using Conditional Access instead of configurable token lifetimes.

If you do not want to use Conditional Access after the retirement date, your refresh and session tokens will be set to the default configuration on that date and you will no longer be able to change their lifetimes.