If passwordless is new to you, you might want to start with another blog first: Passwordless authentication with windows 10 and Azure AD Your mobile phone as a FIDO2 USB Security keyįIDO2 security keys provide strong password-less authentication with an optional PIN or Biometrics that serves as an additional factor.
In my previous post I showed you how to use the IDmelon Authenticator app and pairing tool on a user assigned Windows 10 device. Therefore I will not cover every aspect in detail but instead, focus on going passwordless on shared devices. There are a lot of blogs out there about managing and configuring shared Windows 10 devices using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM / Intune). Let’s continue our passwordless journey in this post by going passwordless on shared Windows devices. Well, Let’s see if I can change your view on Shared Windows devices, since many improvements to managing shared devices have been made since the beginning.
But I can only speak for myself I haven’t tested Hello against a variety of faces.Do you still prefer the password madness? While shared windows 10 scenario’s are excellent for passwordless, most users still sign in with their username and password which is old-school these days right? Besides using passwords, most will complain about long lasting logon times, low disk space due to many users and updates that install during work or class time. I assume it would work just fine with a woman wearing a head covering, and perhaps even a wig. Hello works only when it can see your entire face-sorry, ninjas-but it appears that it doesn’t need to see your hairline or skull. As for security, I tried snapping a high-def selfie, then holding the phone in front of the Hello camera. That won’t be a necessity unless you have a twin, I’d say, who looks just like you. You have the option of requiring Hello to force you to turn your head slightly from side to side, so that Hello can see more of your head. I’ve then had to swivel my chair and look directly at my laptop. About the only time I’ve had to make allowances for it have been when the laptop has been set to the side, with a larger desktop monitor set in front of me. Hello feels exceptionally natural I just sit down and I’m logged in. The Windows Hello settings are simple and straightforward.
If Hello fails, you have the option to log in normally via a PIN or standard password.
Update July 30: Windows Hello has failed to recognize me on a couple of occasions - one when I had just gotten out of the shower and my hair was wet, and another for an unknown reason. (A faint red glow is visible when the camera is active.) The right-hand camera is actually an infrared camera, apparently bouncing IR light off your face in an effort to recognize you. Visually, you can tell there’s a Hello camera there, because it looks like not one, but three lenses: a conventional webcam in the middle, but two others to the left and right. In the Yoga 15, that camera is embedded where the webcam normally would be, right at the top of the screen. The concept behind Windows Hello is extremely simple: You sit down at your PC, which recognizes you and automatically logs you in. Windows 10 Hello uses a special RealSense depth camera module designed by Intel. Windows Hello is as easy as looking at your PC. Still, I think you’ll be loathe to go back to the old way of doing things once you have a PC with Hello enabled. (We all hate passwords, right?) I look at Hello as a similar feature: a convenience, nothing more. Hello works the same way: You sit down at your PC, and it automatically unlocks your PC with your face-no password required. Why this matters: More and more modern cars include remote unlocking technology, where your proximity unlocks your car and tells it to get ready to go. Posted by PCWorld on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Windows 10’s Windows Hello logs you in-with your face!