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Hi folks - welcome to the second post in the holiday '23 series.
Today's post is about a capability that came to preview long ago but recently surprised much of the world and moved to General Availability (GA).
This allows you to sign-in to a Windows PC itself via the familiar web sign in form/pop-up dialog box:
With this sign-in method, you certainly can use your password but passwords are so ‘yesterday’ … Let’s go passwordless and use MS Authenticator - which can be a form of ‘multi-factor’ sign in.
- IMPORTANT: This sign in method is called ‘web sign in’ – if there is no ‘web,’ then there is no sign in (i.e. offline sign ins won’t work; there will be no cached credential locally for this sign in method).
Here are the high-level steps and a little animation of the experience on Windows 11 + MS Authenticator on iOS.
- From the PC:
- Select the ‘Sign in options’ link and select the ‘globe’ (web sign in)
- Select the ‘Sign in’ button
- Select ‘Send notification’ from the web pop-up
- From the phone
- You’ll be prompted to complete the MFA and passwordless sign-in via MS Authenticator (in my case, enter the number match + Touch ID)
- You’ll arrive on the desktop, signed in…
For more information:
Cheers - See you tomorrow!
Hilde