To ensure consistent behavior for all users, we highly recommend you enable number match for Microsoft Authenticator push notifications in advance. If customers don’t enable number match for all Microsoft Authenticator push notifications prior to May 8, 2023, users may experience inconsistent sign ins while the services are rolling out this change. We’ll also remove the rollout controls for number matching after that date. Microsoft services will start enforcing the number matching experience for all users of Microsoft Authenticator push notifications after May 8th, 2023. Organizations can continue to use the existing rollout controls until, to deploy number matching in their organizations. After listening to customers, we will extend the availability of the rollout controls for a few more weeks.

We had previously announced that we will remove the admin controls and enforce the number match experience tenant-wide for all users of Microsoft Authenticator push notifications starting February 27, 2023. If you haven’t already leveraged the rollout controls (via Azure Portal Admin UX and MSGraph APIs) to smoothly deploy number matching for users of Microsoft Authenticator push notifications, we highly encourage you to do so. Microsoft Authenticator app’s number matching feature has been Generally Available since November 2022. Number Matching Message Center post refresh

In addition, we will be including new feature launch announcements as part of this blog post going forward so you can see both changes to existing features and new features in a single list. We are continuing to make it easier for our customers to manage lifecycle changes (deprecations, retirements, service breaking changes) within the new Entra admin center as well. We also communicate these changes on release notes and via email.

Today, we're sharing our March train for feature and breaking changes.

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