Asklemmy

43978 readers

621 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

209

Can I refuse MS Authenticator? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

264 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's demonstrably safer? Or is this a battle I can pick to shield myself a little from MS?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Surely your work landline number is your work number? The phone is just to run the authenticator service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone has a desk phone (much less a desk).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you don't have a desk phone (or desk) then you'd have a company supplied mobile if they expected you to take business calls. No?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No. I have a monthly stipend but I don't really take calls outside of teams.