Microsoft Entra Admin Portal provides a basic facility that allows you to enroll the pre-programmed OATH hardware tokens. As you will see, the enrollment process is manual. Therefore, it is only suitable for enrolling a small number of tokens.

If you have a large number of tokens, then check out the SafeID Token Service (STS). STS has a powerful management portal that allows administrators and the help desk team to enroll and manage tokens in a few clicks. 

To enroll hardware tokens using the Entra Admin Portal, you will need to go through the steps below:

  1. Download the token secret file
  2. Assign tokens to users
  3. Upload tokens to Entra ID
  4. Activate tokens in Entra ID

Step 1: Download the Token Secret File

Step 2: Assign tokens to users

Once you have downloaded the secret file of your tokens, you need to assign tokens to your Entra ID users. 

There are 2 ways you can assign tokens to users


Step 3: Upload tokens to Entra ID

Once you have assigned tokens to users, you can upload the token assignment file onto Entra ID

Step 4: Activate tokens in Entra ID

Finally, you will need to activate tokens by providing a verification code from the token, one by one.