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12-13-2021 01:34 PM
No matter what I try all devices are showing up as unknown. Any ideas what needs to change in my network or if I’m overlooking something. I believe I’ve followed all the documentation but nothing is working.
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12-13-2021 08:57 PM
Hi @works2020 ,
If you are referring to 2FA devices showing up as “unknown” in your Duo Admin Panel, please see the following: Why would a device show up as “Unknown” in Device Insight in the Duo Admin Panel?
Hope this helps!
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12-13-2021 10:18 PM
I’ve read this over ten times now which doesn’t offer any solution. Have anything else that will actually fix the problem

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12-14-2021 07:02 AM
I’m not sure it’s clear what the problem is from your first post.
- What kind of devices are these? User 2FA devices (like phone) or access devices (like the computers where users access applications)?
- Where are the devices showing as “unknown”? Is it in the Device Insight reports or elsewhere?
- How were these devices created?
- What documentation did you follow?
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12-14-2021 08:56 AM
- Both computers and phones.
- Under Trusted Endpoints
- Created the user in Duo, added their phone number and activated Duo from the admin panel.
- All that I’m aware of from the Knowledge Base

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12-14-2021 10:17 AM
Ah, ok. The “unknown” there means that Duo wasn’t able to determine whether a device is trusted or untrusted, usually because a device hasn’t accessed an application that features the Duo interactive web prompt. Only the Duo prompt in a browser can evaluate or block access based on a device’s trust status in Duo. Applications that don’t show the web prompt, like Duo for Windows Logon, don’t perform the trusted endpoints check and won’t update a device’s trust status in Duo. There is some more information about that here.
