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Azure Portal: How to enable MFA? Do I need to purchase Entra ID Premium?

I received the following alert when I signed into the Azure portal:

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I attempted to follow the steps it suggested, and ended up using entra.microsoft.com to attempt to set up a "conditional access policy."

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But as you can see above, the button to create a new policy is disabled, and I seem to get a nudge to upgrade to Entra ID Premium. Is premium required to enable MFA? I’m just trying to be compliant with the upcoming change.

Thanks for any advice.

Adding for posterity:

  • My Azure subscription is connected not connected to an "organizational" account.
  • My own account does have MFA enabled. Was trying to understand what further action, if any, was being prompted by this message.
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    AFAIK, enabling the MFA for individual users is a free feature in Azure Entra.
    If you require more advanced MFA Capabilities such as

    1. Conditional access
    2. Risk based authentication
    3. Phone based mfa (call/sms)
    4. Authentication methods
    5. monitoring and reporting
    6. Advanced security

    Then you need to consider purchasing Entra ID Premium.

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  2. 0

    No, you do not need to purchase premium.

    Took me a while to find too, mainly because I was zoomed in and so the button was essentially off screen!
    In Entra ID, go to Users:
    Per-user MFA

    Click the Per-user MFA button, which takes you here:

    select user

    Select your user and click Enable MFA.

    Done 🙂

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