How to Check a the MFA Status of a User

How can you check if a user has MFA enabled and who enabled it?

• Check if user MFA is enabled on the Entra portal
• Check if user MFA is enabled on CoreView
• Find out who made changes

1. Check MFA Status in Microsoft Entra ID (Portal)

To view and manage user states, complete the following steps to access the Entra portal page:

• Sign in to Microsoft Entra as a Global administrator
• From the side panel menu, select Users > All users
• In the top bar menu, select the “Per-user MFA” reporA new page will open. Here you will be able to see the MFA status for each user.

• A new page will open. Here you will be able to see the MFA status for each user.

To learn more about user MFA, please refer to Microsoft documentation.

2. Check MFA Status in CoreView

• Open the CoreView app and login
• Navigate to the “Active users” reports

• From the “Columns” dropdown, check “Multifactor auth state” and click “Apply”:

• The column “Multifactor auth state” will indicate if the user has MFA enabled, enforced or disabled.

MFA Status Definitions: Enabled vs Enforced vs Disabled

• Enabled: the user has been enrolled in MFA but has not completed the registration process. They will be prompted to complete the registration process the next time they sign in.
• Enforced: the user has been enrolled and has completed the MFA registration process. Users are automatically switched from enabled to enforced when they register for Entra ID MFA.
• Disabled: this is the default state for a new user that has not been enrolled in MFA.

3. Audit MFA Changes: See Who Enabled or Disabled MFA

• If the MFA was enabled through CoreView, you can see the details from in Audit logs.

Here you can apply a filter on the “Action” or “Created on” columns to find the desired output:

If the changes were made through Microsoft 365, then you can find the details from Microsoft 365 Audit log. Please follow the steps below:

• Navigate to “Audit > Microsoft 365”

• Apply the filter “Enable Strong Authentication” on the “Operation” column.

• Change the date range as per your requirement:

This will show details of the users with MFA and who made the changes.

Key terminologies:

• User ID: User who performed the action‍
• Object ID: User on whom the action was performed