MFA enforcement extension to September 2025

Question

I am requesting an extension for the MFA enforcement to September 2025 to give us time to put all our practices in place.. How do I make this request?

Answer 1

Hi,

The ability to postpone enforcement until September 30, 2025 is supposed to be available starting in the second half of this month. Please see article below which has instructions as well as link to portal page to postpone.

Request more time to prepare for enforcement

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication#request-more-time-to-prepare-for-enforcement

Excerpt:

We understand that some customers may need more time to prepare for this MFA requirement. Microsoft is allowing customers with complex environments or technical barriers to postpone the enforcement for their tenants until September 30, 2025.

Starting in 2nd half of February 2025, Global Administrators can go to the Azure portal to select the start date of enforcement for their tenant for admin portals in Phase 1. Global Administrators must elevate access before they can postpone the start date of MFA enforcement.

Global Administrators must perform this action for every tenant where they want to postpone the start date of enforcement.

By postponing the start date of enforcement, you take extra risk because accounts that access Microsoft services like the Azure portal are highly valuable targets for threat actors. We recommend all tenants set up MFA now to secure cloud resources.

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Thanks.

-TP

Answer 2

When in February would I be able to make the change. This is what I see today? I am not given the option to change it.

Answer 3

Hello @Jo Horn,

Thank you for your response.

As per the recent update on this, the date picker for portal MFA enforcement is currently rolling out and it is going to roll out completely to all tenants by 2/24/2025. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication#request-more-time-to-prepare-for-enforcement

I hope this information is helpful. Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.