![]() You can use an Apple Watch or Samsung Gear device to approve multi-factor authentication challenges.Īndroid Wear-based devices and Microsoft’s own band are currently not supported for this scenario. (And in most cases, you won’t even need to open the app to complete the approval.) Support for wearables. To make authentication as easy as possible, you only need to click the “approve” button in the push notification triggered by Microsoft Authenticator on your mobile device to complete the login. Next to these two types of Microsoft accounts, the Microsoft Authenticator supports any service that works with OATH-based one-time passcodes, just as the old Azure Authenticator did ( and the old Microsoft Authenticator before it) to allow you to use one app for all your Microsoft, Facebook and Google multi-factor authentication needs. ![]() ![]() With the new Microsoft Authenticator, Microsoft combines multi-factor authentication for both Azure-based accounts (OrgIDs) and Microsoft Accounts (MSAs) into one app, that supports enterprise and consumer scenarios. What’s New One app for both Azure MFA and Microsoft Accounts Users of the Microsoft account app for Android will receive a prompt to download the new app. Existing accounts, already configured in existing Azure Authenticator installations will be upgraded automatically. People using the Azure Authenticator app on Windows Phone, iOS an Android-based devices, will be automatically upgraded to the new Microsoft Authenticator app, starting today. ![]() That’s OK, because Nokia will soon be making mobile phones too and come full circle again, too… Yes, it was named the Microsoft Authenticator app, back in those days, too. Additionally, Dave looked at using the Microsoft Authenticator Windows Phone app with Google back in 2013. Now, I’m not sure whether Microsoft will use the above slogan for the app, but to me it sums up what this new app offers.īeing involved in several Azure Multi-Factor Authentication projects, I’ve been deploying and using the Azure Authenticator app (and its predecessor, the Multi-Factor Auth app) to Windows Phone, iOS an Android-based devices in the past couple of years. As announced on July 25, today, Microsoft’s new Microsoft Authenticator app replaces both its Azure Authenticator and Microsoft Account app as the one easy-to-use app for all your multi-factor authentication needs.
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