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There are 2 ways you can set up pre-programmed hardware tokens with Azure AD:

• Use Entra ID Portal 
• Use SafeID Token Service

Entra ID Portal

Microsoft Entra ID portal 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 To set up hardware tokens using the Entra ID portalAdmin Portal, you will need to go through 3 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 now need to edit it with a text editor and assign all of your tokens to your users by adding the user's UPN against the token's serial number, one by oneImage Removedassign tokens to your Entra ID users. 

There are 2 ways you can assign tokens to users

Step 3: Upload tokens to Entra ID

NextOnce you have assigned tokens to users, you need to can upload the modified secret file on token assignment file onto Entra ID

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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.

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SafeID Token Service

As you will see, the facility provided by Azure AD is very basic and not flexible. It does not provide functions for you to quickly assign only one token to a user or to reassign a token, for instance. If you have a small number of hardware tokens to manage, then it is OK to use the Azure AD portal. However, if you have a large number of hardware tokens to manage, then we would recommend the SafeID Token Service

SafeID Token Service provides a Web-based GUI console that allows customers to manage the full life cycle of the SafeID hardware tokens by simply pointing and clicking. You can assign, activate, deactivate, unassign, delete and replace a token, etc with one single click.

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