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The issue Will first reported, and that also happened to me, is that MFA is turned on by default using Authenticator, but without forcing you to configure Authenticator. So you try to log in and get told to check Authenticator. But you haven’t set up Authenticator so you say “I don’t have access to Authenticator” and you get two options – both of which require Authenticator. You end up in a loop you can’t (as a user) get out of and have to get an Admin involved.
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The only issue that I have with that is that it forces Authenticator but doesn’t force you to set it up, so you can end up with the situation that Authenticator is the only allowed MFA tool, but you can’t use it because you haven’t set up an account on it, and you can’t set up the account because you can’t log in to the account because you can’t pass MFA because, …
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I have had an absolute nightmare with 123-Reg in the UK, which I believe is at least part-owned by GoDaddy. I had been using it for domain name registration for many years with no problems at all. I added mail forwarding for myself and my wife, in both cases to our GMail addresses. This worked fine for years.
A few weeks ago, my wife was told that many of her messages were ending up in Spam and 123-Reg recommended we moved from forwarding to hosting for her. This was with 123-Reg mail servers (so probably the Starfield webmail Will Fastie mentions). All was well for a couple of weeks then she was told emails were still going to spam and 123-Reg recommended moving her hosting to Microsoft 365. I specifically asked if this would have any effect on any other email addresses on the domain and was told it would not. This was a lie, as soon as my wife’s email was moved to M365 the forwarding was turned off, with no notice, and it took them four days to sort it by moving me to M365 as well. If they had mentioned this at the time I wouldn’t have had an issue with saying to migrate us both. The net effect was that I lost all those emails. The less than useful response from 123-Reg was to ask people to send me emails again. Right, and I would know who had sent me mail how, exactly?
At least my lost emails were personal, my wife uses her email for business.
Anyway, the order of the day now is to move from 123-Reg. I have already changed my 5-* review to 1-*.
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I wish I had seen this two weeks ago. As of Friday, I know far more about MFA on Azure and Exchange than I ever wanted to. My wife had exactly the same problem described in the article, yet I did not, despite the two accounts being set up on the same domain at pretty much the same time.
After going round loops of enter user name, enter password, your account needs more verification, use Authenticator, can’t use Authenticator use an alternative, enter the code from Authenticator, … I finally got the answer you found.
Here’s a question, though, how can MFA be set to use Authenticator when the account has never been set up on Authenticator? Never got an answer to that (and hopefully now I don’t need to).
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I can believe that cheap generators produce dirty outputs, but I’d be surprised if they are square waves. The output from any standard generator is, by the nature of the device, basically a sine wave.
However, I can think of one way this might not be the case. If the output of the actual electromagnetic generator is passed through circuitry to regulate the voltage and cycle it’s possible, indeed likely, that, at least for cheaper systems, the circuit uses Pulse Width Modulation. For those who don’t know, this basically switches between extremes of +Ve, zero, and -Ve voltage, but fast enough that a load such as a motor doesn’t notice. By selectively changing the width of the pulse, the average voltage over a short period (much shorter than the AC cycle time) approximates to a point on a sine wave.
My electric motor control knowledge is a couple of decades old, but this seems more likely than a stepped output, though putting a suitable capacitor on the output of such a circuit, conjunction with a load, would approximate to steps.
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Thanks to all, Looks like I have a few more things to try out. I’ve successfully created a DVD, running the MCT on my work PC allowed me to create a .ISO, even though it refused to use the USB memory. Now just have to wait for my wife to finish her tax return so I can do a clean reboot.
I would have clean re-installed 8.1, but I got that as a downloaded upgrade, so I don’t have the media.
Stay tuned
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