{"id":115,"date":"2024-08-22T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=115"},"modified":"2024-08-22T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:28:07","password":"","slug":"how-to-modify-two-factor-authentication-methods-in-microsoft-365-office-365","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/?docs=how-to-modify-two-factor-authentication-methods-in-microsoft-365-office-365","title":{"rendered":"How to Modify Two-Factor Authentication Methods in Microsoft 365\/Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-step verification, or two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA), is an extra layer of security to prove your identity, when trying to log in to online services (banking, email , etc.). Similarly in Microsoft 365, after entering the username and password, users are required to confirm their identity with one of the following authentication methods:<br \/>\n\u2022 A notification in their mobile through the Microsoft Authenticator App (recommended).<br \/>\n\u2022 A Call to their Phone<br \/>\n\u2022 A Text message (code) to their Phone<br \/>\n\u2022 A Verification Code in an alternate Email address.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Picture1-2FA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Picture1-2FA.png 357w, https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Picture1-2FA-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-step verification, or two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA), is an extra layer of security to prove your identity, when trying to log in to online services (banking, email , etc.). Similarly in Microsoft 365, after entering the username and password, users are required to confirm their identity with one of the following authentication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[11],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-115","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-microsoft-authenticator"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":86,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/?author=1"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Microsoft Authenticator","term_url":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/?doc_category=microsoft-authenticator"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"author_list":[{"ID":"1","user_login":"admin","display_name":"admin","id":"1"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/115\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_category&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledge.nexusbusiness.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}