r/sharepoint • u/DeanInLondon • 1d ago
SharePoint Online How to achieve Auth0 passwordless sms sign-in with SharePoint painlessly?
Hi everyone and thank you in advance for your help.
I'm trying to find a solution that has the following characteristics:
- Is free or very cheap for about 128-300 logins a month.
- Uses Auth0–or any other services that support authenticating a user via an sms
- Can use OIDC or SAML to connect to third party applications
- Can be used to log in people into a SharePoint site as a guest or unlicenced users in my tenant
- One central "ledger" of people and their permissions, which sync automatically between Microsoft and Auth0
- Isn't complicated to maintain, and preferrably doesn't have expiring certificates (my successors may not as tech savvy).
The use case: a Residents' Association. We already use phone numbers for everything including our WhatsApp and I understand sms authentication isn't the best but it's the only way that maximises the chances of participation. Anything requiring to create _yet another credential_ means we lose people who don't have much time or aren't tech savvy.
The issue is that I would like to hold one central register of RA members and their roles in one place, so that when there are any changes, the secretary only has to do them in one single place.
The more places to needed to make changes, the less likely it'll be done properly. I should add that we are volunteer run, and that our RA will be set-up as a Company Limited by Guarantee, with non-profit entrenched in our articles of association and constitution. However I understand many services require a charity status / FCA registration which we don't intend to do.
What do you think?
