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Require MFA for administrators with Conditional Access
Create a custom Conditional Access policy to require administrators to perform multifactor authentication.
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04/01/2025
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Require MFA for administrators

Accounts that are assigned administrative rights are targeted by attackers. Requiring multifactor authentication (MFA) on those accounts is an easy way to reduce the risk of those accounts being compromised.

Microsoft recommends you require phishing-resistant multifactor authentication on the following roles at a minimum:

[!INCLUDE conditional-access-admin-roles]

Organizations can choose to include or exclude roles as they see fit.

User exclusions

[!INCLUDE active-directory-policy-exclusions]

[!INCLUDE active-directory-policy-deploy-template]

Create a Conditional Access policy

The following steps help create a Conditional Access policy to require those assigned administrative roles to perform multifactor authentication. Some organizations might be ready to move to stronger authentication methods for their administrators. These organizations might choose to implement a policy like the one described in the article Require phishing-resistant multifactor authentication for administrators.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Conditional Access Administrator.
  2. Browse to Protection > Conditional Access > Policies.
  3. Select New policy.
  4. Give your policy a name. We recommend that organizations create a meaningful standard for the names of their policies.
  5. Under Assignments, select Users or workload identities.

    1. Under Include, select Directory roles and choose at least the previously listed roles.

      [!WARNING] Conditional Access policies support built-in roles. Conditional Access policies are not enforced for other role types including administrative unit-scoped or custom roles.

    2. Under Exclude, select Users and groups and choose your organization's emergency access or break-glass accounts.

  6. Under Target resources > Resources (formerly cloud apps) > Include, select All resources (formerly 'All cloud apps').
  7. Under Access controls > Grant, select Grant access, Require multifactor authentication, and select Select.
  8. Confirm your settings and set Enable policy to Report-only.
  9. Select Create to create to enable your policy.

[!INCLUDE conditional-access-report-only-mode]

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