Minimizing prompts when connecting Teams and Sharepoint using powerShell when Multifactor Authentication is enabled .

Question

I'm trying to connect teams and sharepoint using powershell scripts i.e., Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $mycred and Connect-MsolService -Credential $mycred -AzureEnvironment AzureCloud , Credentials which we are using has Multi factor authentication Enabled on them, which shows prompts and error while executing these script. I want to minimize the MFA and login prompt. Is there any way if we can use App Authenticator or any other authentication way to achieve this.

Answer 1

The Teams PowerShell module does not (officially) support app authentication just yet, support should be coming in the next versions. As for the MSOnline module, it's on a deprecation path - use the MG Graph SDK for PowerShell instead. It supports CBA/passing token in the app auth context.

Answer 2

So, what should be the best way to minimize the prompt when MFA is Enabled on user ID?

Answer 3

Hi @Kriti Bhardwaj ,

According to my research and testing, unfortunately, it is currently not possible to minimize prompts when MFA is enabled on a user ID.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Answer 4

We are trying to use modern authentication while logging in (Access token/ Client Secret/ Managed Identity) for the 2 cmdlets (Connect Microsoft Teams and Connect SPO Service). As per my finding, we can use access token to connect to Teams. When I am following the steps in the document.

Documentation link:- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/connect-microsoftteams?view=teams-ps

I am getting the below error :-

![**Invoke-RestMethod : {"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID 'd2832c66-6936-4709-b0c7-8b334f5bcfc5' named 'EXO
Powershell'. Send an interactive authorization request for this user and resource.\r\nTrace ID: 90b96c77-2740-45bc-9971-b0e264803200\r\nCorrelation ID: 57009b3e-daa6-47f1-acbe-bb5a553726bd\r\nTimestamp: 2022-08-25
14:38:10Z","error_codes":[65001],"timestamp":"2022-08-25 14:38:10Z","trace_id":"90b96c77-2740-45bc-9971-b0e264803200","correlation_id":"57009b3e-daa6-47f1-acbe-bb5a553726bd","suberror":"consent_required"}
At line:2 char:16

• ... amsToken = (Invoke-RestMethod @RequestParameters -Body "$Body&scope=4 ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand**](/api/attachments/235508-screenshot-25.png?platform=QnA)

Also for Connect SPO service, I didn't find any document that clarifies the support for modern authentication. Please let me know how we can use (Access token/ Client Secret/ Managed Identity) while using these 2 cmdlets.