Export Office 365 users MFA status with PowerShell

We want to get a list of users with MFA status. By checking that, we are sure how many users have MFA enabled and which method they used. If you have not yet enabled MFA in your Microsoft 365/Azure tenant, you should do this immediately! In this article, you will learn how to export Office 365 users MFA status to CSV file.

Check MFA status in Microsoft 365 admin center

Let’s have a look at Microsoft 365 and check the MFA user status. Log into Microsoft 365 admin center. Navigate to Users > Active Users > Multi-factor authentication.

A new page will open, and it will show all the users and their multi-factor auth status. In our example, we have a couple of users MFA enabled, and MFA enforced. Most of the users have MFA disabled.

Why we do not recommend you to use multi-factor authentication:

• Not shown if the users did finish the MFA process
• It does not indicate which MFA authorization option the user enabled
• No chance for export to CSV file

Is there a better way to have an insight into the MFA instead of the Microsoft 365 page? Yes, there is, and that’s when PowerShell will come to the rescue. In the next step, we will show how to create an MFA report.

Connect to Azure Active Directory

Before we can proceed further and get the MFA status for all the users, we need to install and connect to Azure AD with PowerShell (MsolService). Start Windows PowerShell as administrator and run the cmdlet Connect-MsolService.

PS C:> Connect-MsolService

Now that we are connected, we can go to the next step.

Prepare Get-MFAReport PowerShell script

Create two folders on the C:\ drive:

• Temp
• Scripts

Download the Get-MFAReport.ps1 PowerShell script and place it in C:\scripts folder. The script will export the CSV file to the C:\temp folder.

Run Get-MFAReport PowerShell script

Get MFA status for all users with PowerShell. Change the path to the scripts folder. After that, run the script Get-MFAReport.ps1.

PS C:\> cd c:\scripts\
PS C:\scripts> .\Get-MFAReport.ps1

Out-GridView

An Out-GridView will show columns with users and much more information than in the Microsoft 365 multi-factor authentication page.

Open MFA Users report CSV file

The Get-MFAReport.ps1 PowerShell script will export Office 365 users MFA status to CSV file. Find the file MFAUsers.csv in the path C:\temp.

Open the CSV file with your favorite application. In our example, it’s Microsoft Excel.

The MFA status report looks excellent.

Extra attention

Now there is one more thing that you need to place good attention to. Some accounts are not showing that they are enabled, but when you do log into Microsoft 365, it will ask you to enable MFA. After that, it will ask you for MFA when you sign in. The question is, why is that?

That’s because the user has a role added, and Microsoft will force the user to provide MFA authentication. Think about an administrator account, which is a high privileges account.

We recommend you disable security defaults in Azure AD if you use the Get-MFAReport PowerShell script. Otherwise, you will have incorrect information on the Microsoft 365 MFA page and the MFA report. It will show user accounts with no MFA enabled, but they do. You want the report to be accurate, and this way, you have everything managed from the report. You can disable the feature in the next step.

Disable security defaults Azure AD

Sign in to the Azure portal as an administrator. Browse to Azure Active Directory > Properties. Select Manage security defaults > Set the Enable security defaults toggle to No. Select Save.

We like to see that Microsoft synchronizes the Security defaults feature with the Microsoft 365 Multi-Factor Authentication page. This way, you don’t have to disable that feature, and it’s in sync with Microsoft 365 web page and the Get-MFAReport export CSV file.

Microsoft did write documentation about it in Azure Active Director security defaults.

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Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to export MFA status Office 365 users with PowerShell. Get the MFA status report with Get-MFAReport PowerShell script and have a close look through it. Force MFA for all the users and check that they use the Authenticator app, which is Microsoft’s recommendation.

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