{"id":11615,"date":"2019-09-16T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:45:58","slug":"finding-the-multi-factor-authentication-and-authenticator-options-in-an-office-365-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/11615-finding-the-multi-factor-authentication-and-authenticator-options-in-an-office-365-account.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding the multi-factor authentication and authenticator options in an Office 365 account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has done some good work enabling and promoting multi-factor authentication in Office 365, including use of the Microsoft Authenticator app.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely though, it has made the user settings for this hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>Logically it should be in the My Account \u2013 Security and Privacy section, but it is not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"368\" title=\"image\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image_thumb-3.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where is it then? The easiest way to find it is here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"525\" title=\"image\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image_thumb-4.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has done some good work enabling and promoting multi-factor authentication in Office 365, including use of the Microsoft Authenticator app. Strangely though, it has made the user settings for this hard to find. Logically it should be in the My Account \u2013 Security and Privacy section, but it is not. Where is it then? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/11615-finding-the-multi-factor-authentication-and-authenticator-options-in-an-office-365-account.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding the multi-factor authentication and authenticator options in an Office 365 account<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,61,1519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-office-365","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11616,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}