[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]’ve recently migrated all my work machines from Windows to Linux because I finally grew tired of Microsoft’s adware nonsense. And yet, they still managed to throw a wrench into my workflow. As many of you know, Microsoft has their own little “Authenticator” app that acts as an MFA gateway. When you sign in to […]
Everything about authentication and Microsoft is nightmare fuel. I am sure that noone over there has any idea what is going on, and that is the reason why every new thing from microsoft builds their own - soon to be legacy code anyway - authentication portal and ties it to the existing kowloon walled city of authentication with chewing gum and zip ties.
I recently had to install MS authenticator on my work phone, to do so I needed to use the code from MS authenticator. To bypass that I needed to log on to MS to change access option, which wanted the code from MS authenticator to log in.
Try supporting Onedrive for business when Onedrive often fails SSO and people use their work email address to create a personal account because by default Microsoft encourages that unless you aggressively lock that down, and then people will have sensitive work data on an account you can’t control, and if they switch computers it gets worse because if they don’t know that password and if the old computer is broken there’s nothing the business can do to get the data.
Oh, and Adobe does the same thing. Neither tell you upfront that you should disable creation of personal accounts using the work email address/domain. The user won’t notice because it doesn’t occur to them to select “organization account” and they just click the first option.
Which is also both a security nightmare and GDPR nightmare.
Something like this happened to me and I’m not very well tech versed anymore. But I’ll put it this way, somehow confidential government files (nothing too serious) from 2015 ended up on my computer that I built a few years ago. I honestly I’m still baffled and yes, I used my old email because I was lazy and was going to use this for gaming anyway.