How to disable multi factor authentication (MFA) for a Dynamics 365 trial environment

 You might have noticed that if you now setup a new Dynamics 365 trial environment, users who login are greeted with "Help us protect your account" which requires to setup multi factor authentication (MFA) even for accounts in trial/demo tenants. This is part of the Azure Active Directory security defaults. 

To get rid of this setting you need to login to https://portal.azure.com and change this setting for the Azure Active Directory used by your demo/trial tenant. Navigate to Azure Active Directory in your subscription and select Properties in the left navigation pane. At the bottom of this screen, you will find the Access Management for Azure resources section.

Click the link Manage Security Default in this section and change the setting to Enable security defaults No.

Power Platform and Dynamics 365 API request entitlements

Based on the number and the different types of licenses that you have within your Office 365 tenant you are granted a specific number of API request entitlements in a 24 hour window. For more details take a look at Request limits and allocations (Microsoft documentation)

It is important to keep in mind that these entitlement limits are different from the service protection limits  which are already enforced today.

It is time to start reviewing your architecture and consumption of API requests on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 as Microsoft announced that they will start enforcing these limits once the transition period ends (no date available yet in the official documentation - last updated February 2d 2021) - see Power Platform > Licensing > Request limits and allocations for more details.

Quick tip: changing the access for a Teams recording in Microsoft Stream

 Up until now a Microsoft Teams recording is published in Microsoft Stream (this will change in early 2021) and  the Microsoft Teams recording is only accessible to a limited set of people. 

If you are the meeting owner, you can change permissions and allow people without access to view a meeting recording. Open the meeting in Stream and select   More options button > Update Video Details. 

This will open a new screen, in which you can tick either "allow everyone in your company to view this video" or you can share the recording with specific persons.

Quick tip : how to do a poll during a Microsoft Teams meeting

 A colleague showed me last week how to do a poll during Microsoft Teams meeting - check out the video below on how to set this up yourself and add some interactivity to meetings