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articles/active-directory/authentication/concept-system-preferred-multifactor-authentication.md

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ms.service: active-directory
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ms.subservice: authentication
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 03/31/2023
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ms.date: 04/03/2023
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ms.author: justinha
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author: justinha
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>[!NOTE]
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>System-preferred MFA is a key security upgrade to traditional second factor notifications. We highly recommend enabling system-preferred MFA in the near term for improved sign-in security.
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## Enable system-preferred MFA
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## Enable system-preferred MFA in the Azure portal
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By default, system-preferred MFA is Microsoft managed and disabled for all users.
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1. In the Azure portal, click **Security** > **Authentication methods** > **Settings**.
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1. For **System-preferred multifactor authentication**, choose whether to explicitly enable or disable the feature, and include or exclude any users. Excluded groups take precedence over include groups.
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For example, the following screenshot shows how to make system-preferred MFA explicitly enabled for only the Engineering group.
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:::image type="content" border="true" source="./media/concept-system-preferred-multifactor-authentication/enable.png" alt-text="Screenshot of how to enable Microsoft Authenticator settings for Push authentication mode.":::
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1. After you finish making any changes, click **Save**.
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## Enable system-preferred MFA using Graph APIs
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To enable system-preferred MFA in advance, you need to choose a single target group for the schema configuration, as shown in the [Request](#request) example.
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| Property | Type | Description |
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| id | String | ID of the entity targeted. |
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| ID | String | ID of the entity targeted. |
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| targetType | featureTargetType | The kind of entity targeted, such as group, role, or administrative unit. The possible values are: 'group', 'administrativeUnit', 'role', 'unknownFutureValue'. |
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Use the following API endpoint to enable **systemCredentialPreferences** and include or exclude groups:
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