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For enterprises that use passwords today and have a shared PC environment, security keys provide a seamless way for workers to authenticate without entering a username or password. The AirID FIDO2 security key provides improved productivity for workers, and has better security.

This document focuses on enabling AirID FIDO2 security key based passwordless authentication. At the end of this article, you will be able to sign in to web-based applications with your Microsoft365 Azure AD account using a AirID FIDO2 security key.

Requirements

Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication
Enable Combined security information registration
WebAuthN requires Windows 10 version 1903 or higher**

To use an AirID FIDO2 security key for logging in to web apps and services, you must have a browser that supports the WebAuthN protocol. These include Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Prepare devices

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For Azure AD joined devices the best experience is on Windows 10 version 1903 or higher.

Hybrid Azure AD joined devices must run Windows 10 version 2004 or higher.

Question

My PC is in a local active directory and I want to switch to an azure active directory.

Answer

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at least local administrator privileges are necessary for this task

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Open your "Windows Settings"
Navigate to "System"
go to "About"
search the page for "Advanced system settings" or "Rename this PC (advanced)" beneath the Related settings section - both open the same control panel !!
open the "Advanced system setting" (again both will open the same dialog)
click the "Change" button
Leave the "Computer name" as is for now and select "Workgroup"
Most commonly windows uses "WORKGROUP" as value for "Workgroup"
hit "OK"
Now you'll be prompted for... TODO!!!