{"id":244315,"date":"2026-09-21T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-reminds-admins-to-migrate-entra-id-users-to-passkeys"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:26:47","slug":"microsoft-reminds-admins-to-migrate-entra-id-users-to-passkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-reminds-admins-to-migrate-entra-id-users-to-passkeys","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reminds admins to migrate Entra ID users to passkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-reminds-admins-to-migrate-entra-id-users-to-passkeys.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has reminded administrators to migrate Entra ID users to phishing-resistant methods, such as passkeys, to avoid sign-in disruptions after it retires SMS first-factor sign-in starting in February 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Admins also have alternatives, including QR code authentication, FIDO2 security keys, and other Entra ID-supported authentication methods.<\/p>\n<p>Before this date, organizations should ensure all users use a phishing-resistant method because they will no longer be able to use SMS or voice to complete multifactor authentication and sign in to their accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reminded administrators to migrate Entra ID users to phishing-resistant methods, such as passkeys, to avoid sign-in disruptions after it retires SMS first-factor sign-in starting in February 2027. Admins also have alternatives, including QR code authentication, FIDO2 security keys, and other Entra ID-supported authentication methods. Before this date, organizations should ensure all users use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}