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Windows 11 Mandates Enterprise Smart Card for All Users
In this episode of The Windows Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into Microsoft's latest quiet mandate: Windows 11 now requires smart card authentication for all enterprise users. Starting with the updated Windows 11 24H2 release, the default security baseline enforces certificate-based authentication via smart cards or Windows Hello for Business, effectively phasing out password-only logins. Lucas explains the technical shift from a 'password optional' world to a 'password forbidden' one, citing the August 2025 security baseline update that made smart card or FIDO2 tokens mandatory for…
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