Power BI Blog: Power BI in Teams Now Supporting Multi Factor Authentication

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series.  This week, we look at Multi Factor Authentication for Power BI in Teams.

Organisations usually configure Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to protect digital assets by forcing users to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a website or application.  This method enhances the protection of the organisation’s data by preventing unauthorised access that could occur if someone were to obtain a single password.

Many of us use Teams in our daily work.  Therefore, Microsoft has improved how the authentication in Power BI in Teams is handled where MFA is configured.  From now on, if the account is configured with Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) the user will need to authenticate before launching the Power BI app from Teams, using a new authentication screen.  

Great.  Even more ways not to be able to access a Teams meeting now.  😊

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