Users Management

User management, what is it ? In order to use the MFA, your users must have been registered in the system. as such they must provide you or you must provision some information for authentication 2 factors. Depending on the configuration of the component (UserFeatures), your users may have to enter the information by their own means (Default Template), or you can do it more administratively by creating the accounts yourself.

Managing Users

You can view or modify All users properties.

To manage users you must use PowerShell applets or the MMC.

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help *MFAU* to get information.
• Enter your command

Get-MFAUsers

$c = Get-MFAUsers
...
Set-MFAUsers $c

Basic management operations (CRUD)

List o PowerShell cmds to Add, Get, Delete or Update users

Selecting Users

To Select users with PowerShell applets .

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Get-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
# Get All active Users
Get-MFAUsers

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
# Get All Users
Get-MFAUsers -IncludeDisabled
Get-MFAUsers -All

#----------  EXAMPLE 3  ----------
# Get a specific user
$u = Get-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected]

#----------  EXAMPLE 4  ----------
# Get all users registered with MFA whose the upn start with "neos",
including disabled, display result count.

Get-MFAUsers -FilterValue neos -FilterOperator StartWith -IncludeDisabled -ShowCount
Get-MFAUsers -Value neos -Operator StartWith -All -ShowCount -SortOrder UserName

Adding Users

To Add users users with PowerShell applets .

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Add-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
# Add all users in collection.
Add-MFAUsers $users

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
# Add a specific user.
Add-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email [email protected]
              -Phone 0606050403 -Method Code

Add-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email [email protected]
              -Phone 0606050403 -PIN 2451 -Method Code -NoNewKey

#----------  EXAMPLE 3  ----------
Add-MFAUsers $users -Method Code -NoNewKey

Updating Users

To Update users with PowerShell applets .

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Set-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
# Update all users in collection.
Set-MFAUsers $users

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
# Update a specific user.
Set-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email [email protected]
                       -Phone 0606050403 -Method Code
Set-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email [email protected] 
                       -Phone 0606050403 -PIN 2451 -Method Code -ResetKey

#----------  EXAMPLE 3  ----------
# Update a specific user.
Set-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email "Name <[email protected]>"
                       -Phone 0606050403 -Method Code
Set-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -Email "Name [[email protected]]"
                       -Phone 0606050403 -PIN 2451 -Method Code -ResetKey
#----------  EXAMPLE 4  ----------
# Update users and reset SecretKey.
Set-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected] -ResetKey
Set-MFAUsers $users -ResetKey

Removing Users

To Remove users with PowerShell applets .

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Remove-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
# remove all users in collection.
Remove-MFAUsers $users

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
# Remove a specific user.
Remove-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected]

Enabling/Disabling Users

To Remove users with PowerShell applets .

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Enable-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• type get-help Disable-MFAUsers -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
# enable all users in collection.
Enable-MFAUsers $users

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
# Enable a specific user.
Enable-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected]

#----------  EXAMPLE 3  ----------
# Disable all users in collection.
Disable-MFAUsers $users

#----------  EXAMPLE 4  ----------
# Disable a specific user.
Disable-MFAUsers -Identity [email protected]

Import management operations

PowerShell Import cmdlets

Importing users with CSV files

You can find a sample CSV file in C:\Program Files\MFA\import.csv.

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Import-MFAUsersCSV -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
Import-MFAUsersCSV -LitteralPath c:\temp\import.csv

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
Import-MFAUsersCSV -LitteralPath c:\temp\import.csv -DisableAll -SendMail -NewKey

Importing users with XML files

You can find a sample XML file in C:\Program Files\MFA\import.xml.

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Import-MFAUsersXML -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
Import-MFAUsersXML -LitteralPath c:\temp\import.xml

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
Import-MFAUsersXML -LitteralPath c:\temp\import.xml -DisableAll -SendMail -NewKey

Importing users from ADDS

You must provide an ldap path.

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help Import-MFAUsersADDS -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
Import-MFAUsersADDS -LDAPPath "dc=domain,dc=com"

#----------  EXAMPLE 2  ----------
Import-MFAUsersADDS -LDAPPath "dc=domain,dc=com" -DisableAll -SendMail -NewKey

#----------  EXAMPLE 3  ----------
Import-MFAUsersADDS -LDAPPath "dc=domain,dc=com" -Method Code 
                           -CreatedSince ([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddHours(-4)) 
                           -ModifiedSince ([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddMinutes(-30))

#----------  EXAMPLE 4  ----------
Import-MFAUsersADDS -LDAPPath "dc=domain,dc=com" -Method Code 
                           -ModifiedSince ([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddMinutes(-30))
                           
#----------  EXAMPLE 5  ----------
Import-MFAUsersADDS -LDAPPath "dc=domain,dc=com" -LDAPFilter"(memberof=CN=External Users,OU=Extranet,DC=domain,DC=com)" 
                           -CreatedSince ([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddHours(-4)) 
                           -ModifiedSince ([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddMinutes(-30))
                           -SendMail -NewKey

You can put this kind of in a PowerShell file and run this script with Windows Task Scheduler

Removing deleted users from ADDS

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch a new PowerShell session as administrator
• type get-help CleanUp-MFAUsersADDS -detailed to get information.
• Enter your command

#----------  EXAMPLE 1  ----------
CleanUp-MFAUsersADDS

You can put this kind of in a PowerShell file and run this script with Windows Task Scheduler

Managing Users with MMC

• Log on the a primary ADFS server as administrator
• Launch MMC snappin