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it won't work with shared accounts. you need individual accounts for MFA to be used&nbsp;
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it won't work with shared accounts. you need individual accounts for MFA to be used 

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Michael B. Smith

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Jerry Seinfield

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<p>Hello Experts,</p><p><br></p><p>I have a request to enforce Azure AD MFA for some users at the company with hardware tokens.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Can I enable Azure AD MFA on shared accounts &nbsp;and enforce MFA at the same time? I mean, the same Azure AD account with a single hardware token will login from multiple pcs at the same time and MFA should be enforced with same hw token</p><p><br></p><p>Is that even possible? or should I purchase additional HW tokens even for the same user ad?</p><p><br></p><p>The problem is this customer has several generic AD user accounts that are shared by employees to access an application from several locations and MFA must be enforced for these "generic or shared user accounts"</p>
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Hello Experts,
I have a request to enforce Azure AD MFA for some users at the company with hardware tokens. 
Can I enable Azure AD MFA on shared accounts  and enforce MFA at the same time? I mean, the same Azure AD account with a single hardware token will login from multiple pcs at the same time and MFA should be enforced with same hw token
Is that even possible? or should I purchase additional HW tokens even for the same user ad?
The problem is this customer has several generic AD user accounts that are shared by employees to access an application from several locations and MFA must be enforced for these "generic or shared user accounts"

Azure AD MFA and HW token multiple sessions same shared ad account

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