Authentication methods

There are two types of authentication methods that you can use:

User accounts with M-Files authentication are created and controlled in M-Files Manage. With federated authentication, user accounts authenticated through Microsoft Entra ID or other compatible identity providers are usually provisioned to the subscription in M-Files Manage or imported to the vault in M-Files Admin.

Note: When you create a user with Microsoft Entra ID authentication, the username in M-Files Manage must match the user principal name (UPN) in the user's Entra ID home tenant.

With both authentication methods, changes to user information are automatically synchronized between M-Files Manage and M-Files Admin.