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title: "Task 1: Configure Your Environment"
description: The environment configuration endpoints perform the following actions:
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# Task 1: Configure Your Environment

The environment configuration endpoints perform the following actions:

* Update (or create) an application.

* Specify the application's resource grant.

* Specify a sign-on policy and define its actions.

## What you'll do

For the Login with an Authenticator App flow, you will create a new `NATIVE` application, create a sign-on policy and its actions, and assign the policy to the application.

* POST request to create the new application configuration.

* POST requests to create an MFA sign-on policy and actions.

* POST request to assign the sign-on policy to the application.

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