About
Multi-Factor Authentication, or MFA, is a cyber security tool we are implementing in order to keep everyone’s account more secure. This gives us another way to verify who you are when logging into all online Microsoft apps(Teams, Outlook, SharePoint). It works by sending you a notification on your phone when you sign in. Because of the increasing cyber threats around the world, MFA will be required by all employees going forward.
Set-up
The first step to setting up MFA on your account is simply to log in. You should be able to just open Edge and it should either prompt you to log in or ask you to pick your account. If you are having trouble with this, you can copy this site and paste it into your browser login.microsoftonline.com.
1). After signing into this page, you should be greeted with a page that looks like this. From here you can go ahead and click “Next.”
2). On the next page, make sure that “Authentication phone” (1) and "United States" (2) are selected. Then you can type your phone number into the box next to where you selected "United States" (3). You can type your personal phone number as one long string (For example: 5157923567). After entering your phone number, you can hit "next."
3). After clicking “Next,” a window like this will pop up. At this point you will need to switch to your phone to find the text message that was sent to you. After typing in the code that was sent to you, you can hit the "Verify" button.
After completing these steps, you should be ready to go with MFA.