When using Azure AD B2C, with local accounts and email address as the username, is there any mechanism to:
Identify that an account is locked via API or the Azure portal
Manually unlock that account ahead of the lock expiry time, e.g. via portal/API
Identify the time at which a lock will expire, again via API or portal. For example, you may wish to advise a customer to retry after a certain time
Thanks in advance
I don't believe you can access this lockout information using either the Azure Portal or the Azure AD Graph API.
Currently, as far as I know, a local account is locked from any new sign-ins for one minute after ten failed password sign-ins. The local account lockout is extended, after each subsequent failed password sign-in, for one minute initially and then longer subsequently.
A directory administrator can't unlock the a local account. They must wait for the lockout duration to expire.
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I am using AzureAD. And I am implementing MFA.
I know that if the user ID and password login fails a certain number of times, it locks me out.
However, repeated failures in MFA after passing user ID and password authentication will not lock out the user.
Repeated failures on the MFA screen will return you to the initial login screen.
Is this a specification?
If it is possible to lock out even with MFA, please let me know how.
Yes, lockout feature is available in Azure AD MFA. Please note that this feature is applied only when the users use PIN code for the MFA prompt.
In order to configure this feature, you need administrator role.
Based on the number of failure trials you provided in settings, account lockout happens respectively.
To configure this feature, please follow below steps:
Go to Azure Portal -> Azure Active Directory -> Security -> Multifactor authentication -> Account lockout
In the above fields, enter the number based on your requirement and Save.
Like this, you can configure lockout feature in Azure AD MFA.
Make sure to use PIN for MFA authentication.
Complete credits to below Microsoft Doc:
Configure Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication - Azure Active Directory - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Docs
Yesterday I was triggering Identity Risk Events so I could test the downloading the Audit Log entries using Microsoft's GraphServiceClient API through a dev Azure Active Directory account. Using Tor Browser I was able to complete that task however today when attempted to login to my Azure Dev Account it said I was locked out. I am still able to pull the logs however I can't login to unlock my own dev account. The risky behavior test was executed over 16 hours ago yet my account is still locked out and since I can't get in the dev account appears to be permanently locked and therefor totally useless. I can't even create a support ticket because I can't login. If I try to create a support ticket using my prod Azure account I can't because the dev account is not linked with my prod account. Any idea how I can login so I can use my dev account again?
If your Azure AD tenant has smart lockout policies configured, your account will remain locked out for the duration specified in those policies and even the administrator must wait for the duration to expire. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-password-smart-lockout
However, you should be able to unlock yourself by using self-service password reset (SSPR) from a trusted device or location if you have your account set up for SSPR.
If you have already waited for the duration, the account is still blocked, and you are the only admin on the tenant, you can reach out to the Azure Data Protection team to get help. Their number is 866-807-5850.
TLDR:
is it possible to have guest account, like guest#organization.onmicrosoft.com, at company's MS Office 365 cloud that will have "read" permission to organization's users calendars and events with constant access token? By constant access token I mean that I sign in once for this guest user and receive constant access token from Azure AD (like application access authentication but as guest account).
I have my own company's MS Office 365 account with some users in it. There is one global administrator account and few regular users.
There is second company, let's call it XYZ, with their own MSO365 account with many of administrators and users. Big company.
Now I'm writing simple app where I need to have access to read XYZ company's users calendars and events. I have list of required users in my app with proper MSO365 ID's.
I think that 'read' privilege is enough since we can send invitation for events through ordinary email message.
My App will read user events through MS Graph API etc. with some logic and realease it (send invitations for events etc.) with CRON jobs.
And here is my problem with authentication.
I don't want to have "application access" Azure AD privileges at my App. I know the XYZ company security policy won't apply it since "application access" gives access to all accounts at organization. Application access means that XYZ company's global administrator apply application privileges for my App by single sign in into Azure AD. If he do so i have Access token which i can use for API calls at my app withoud need of additional authentication.
I can't use "user access" Azure AD authentication neither.
Due to my CRON jobs and API calls which fire then.
User access means that user need sign in at Azure AD login service what gives me Access token and Refresh token for API calls. Those tokens are 1 hour lifetime.
So I though about: if there is possibility to have a guest account at XYZ company's MSO365 that would let me use authentication mechanism like the "application access"?
By this I mean that XYZ company's global Admin creates me a guest account like guest#xyz.onmicrosoft.com which will have access to read users calendar and events. What is more I need this account to have constant access token which I can use in my cron job's api calls with no need to sign in at Azure AD.
The question is: is it possible? If so how to do it?
The only way there (AFAIK) is to use refresh tokens.
Application-level access is more robust but requires organization-wide access.
So you use delegated access (user access), store refresh tokens somewhere.
You can use those tokens basically indefinitely,
however certain events can expire the refresh token.
It doesn't happen often, but it can happen.
In that case you would need the user to login again so you can get a new refresh token.
You should also store the new refresh token that you get when you acquire tokens using a refresh token.
This new token can overwrite the old token for that user.
And of course keep in mind refresh tokens are user-specific so you gotta store one for each user.
This is the approach that one of our bigger apps takes.
If we fail to acquire a token in the background process,
that user gets a flag set on them that their token does not work,
and they'll get a notification that they need to re-authenticate for the feature to start working again.
I'm trying to determine if Azure Smart Lockout features are now available for B2C as of today? I've found older documents discussing it, but I'm unable to find any official word if it is now available. In the B2C tenant, under AD, Authentication methods is showing and you can open it up. However, it says its in Preview and everything greyed out. Does this mean that it will be available in B2C soon to be able to control lockout parameters? Azure Smart Lockout documentation states that Smart Lockout will require minimum of AD Basic or high account to function. Does anyone know if the B2C tenant will require its own lic or will a lic in the base subscription cover it?
Thx
If you are referring to Azure AD smart lockout being available for the local accounts in an Azure AD B2C tenant, then currently this isn't available.
Also note, the Azure AD Basic and Premium licenses aren't applicable to an Azure AD B2C tenant (in fact, the "Licenses" menu should be disabled).
Similar functionality to "smart lockout" is available in a B2C tenant, but isn't (yet) customisable.
Screenshot below of testing getting locked out after entering the password incorrectly 10 times (the default setting).
According to Microsoft docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/active-directory-b2c-reference-threat-management)
Azure AD B2C uses a sophisticated strategy to lock accounts. The accounts are locked based on the IP of the request and the passwords entered. The duration of the lockout also increases based on the likelihood that it's an attack. After a password is tried 10 times unsuccessfully, a one-minute lockout occurs.
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Currently, you can't:
Trigger a lockout with fewer than 10 failed logins
Retrieve a list of locked out accounts
Configure the lock out policy
Azure Smart Lockout features are available for B2C. See this article for details.
I wasn't able to save those values for some of my B2C tenants from Azure portal, but i was able to change Lockout threshold and lockout duration using Graph API using instructions from this post.
Is there a way to configure account lock-in Azure AD B2C?
As of my research, I was able to find out that azure locks the account after 10 unsuccessful login attempts and locks it for 60 seconds. But I want to configure the number of attempts to 5, the account to be locked forever and won't display a message to the user to call our customer care or follow certain steps to get the account unlocked. I want a graph API call to unlock the clocked account.
Any pointers in this regard will be helpful.
Thanks in advance
I don't believe you can configure this lockout information using either the Azure Portal or the Azure AD Graph API.
(I wish, in future, Azure AD B2C allows customization of the smart lockout values that are supported by Azure AD.)