{"id":8951,"date":"2025-06-11T02:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:11:26","slug":"i-want-to-use-a-different-authenticator-app-is-missing-in-2fa-mfa-in-entra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/i-want-to-use-a-different-authenticator-app-is-missing-in-2fa-mfa-in-entra","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I want to use a different authenticator app&#8221; is missing in 2fa ( MFA ) In Entra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This means you don&#8217;t have Software OATH Tokens enabled as an Authentication Method In Entra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Software OATH tokens are typically applications such as the Microsoft Authenticator app and other authenticator apps. Microsoft Entra ID generates the secret key, or seed, that&#8217;s input into the app and used to generate each OTP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>OATH software token<\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"63\" alt=\"Software OATH token\" src=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/authentication\/media\/concept-authentication-methods\/software-oath-token-icon.png\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This means you don&#8217;t have Software OATH Tokens enabled as an Authentication Method In Entra Software OATH tokens are typically applications such as the Microsoft Authenticator app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}