M365 Changelog: Certificate based Authentication for Security and Compliance Center PowerShell
MC316448 – Updated February 11, 2022: Microsoft has updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.
With this update, which will improve the security of your tenant, Security & Compliance PowerShell will enable configuration of certificate-based authentication to allow unattended App-only access.
When this will happen:
Rollout will begin in mid-February and is expected to be complete by early March.
How this will affect your organization:
No impact. Existing “Basic authentication” for application access to Security and Compliance Center PowerShell will continue to work, even after the roll-out of “Certificate based authentication”.
What you need to do to prepare:
To migrate to certificate-based authentication, follow these steps:
- Step 1: Register the application in Azure AD
- Step 2: Assign API permissions to the application
- Step 3: Generate a self-signed certificate
- Step 4: Attach the certificate to the Azure AD application
- Step 5: Assign Azure AD roles to the application
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