When signing in and they make you use 2FA and then tell you your browser is out of date.
Ok, so I just ran into this on a student account. Minecraft Education decided it wanted me to sign in again. This is on a computer that uses only a single student account.
Anyway, I go ahead and sign in again and it asks for more information so we do the authentication with the code and the cell phone (this is annoying since many students don't have a cell phone handy and have to use a parents and the parent is not always available.)
Anyway, entered the code and then Minecraft shows me a screen telling me that the browser is out of date.
So, I recall some one else saying they got around this problem by opening their browser and logging into the Microsoft account and keeping it open in the browser and then trying to sign into Minecraft Education. I did that and it seems to have worked.
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What I did was just turn off the verification for my entire tenant . . .
:-)
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This all stems from the MFA, including the outdated browser error message. I would try disabling the MFA on your tenant. You can then re-enable if you want this feature, and it will "refresh." Make sure it is setup correctly on the student's accounts/ refresh the MFA for those having the browser error message.
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If I want students to be able to reset their own passwords, don't I need the verification turned on?
but wait, in active usersMulti-factor authentication
It is showing everyone as Disabled under MULTI-FACTOR AUTH STATUSIs there another location that actually controls this?0 -
This just popped up this week in my edu domain, which I use in classes. Today I turned off security defaults in Azure but I'm not sure if that's the right place and if that will fix it permanently. Someone else on this forum did that and it only fixed it for a few months.
If MS is listening, kids don't usually have their phones right there to do this. I get the security concerns, but there has to be a way for students to not have to do MFA.
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Hey Bob,
This isn't a Minecraft Education specific feature. Its a default for all Microsoft Admin Center products, so they weren't really designing this with students needs specifically in mind.
If you disabled it in Azure, you should be good to go though.0 -
Thanks for the reply. I do hope that is true, and I'll report back later.
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So how do I turn it off? Where in Azure? Where is Azure now anyway all the tutorials look different from the site now days.
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Hey Aleece,
Give these instructions a go:
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center (https://entra.microsoft.com/#home) with global admin credentials.
1. In the left nav, expand Protection and choose Authentication methods.
2. Under Manage, select settings
3. Under System-preferred multifactor authentication change the state to Disabled.
If that doesn’t work, here is a guide with additional steps:
Set up multifactor authentication for users - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/security-and-compliance/set-up-multi-factor-authentication?view=o365-worldwide) Note: This guide is to enable it, but you select disable in the same areas to turn off0
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