One of The first steps that it asks you to do is enter a secure password that will work as a key to access your mailbox.
Nevertheless, password is just one of the methods you can use to log into your accountas Microsoft offers an application that, once configured, allows you to generate an alternative code with which you can .
It’s all about the app and in the next paragraphs we will show you step by step how to enable and use it to improve Outlook account securityas well as as an alternative method for login.
Microsoft Authenticator What is this tool?
It is an application for mobile devices, used as verification method for Outlook two-step sign-in. Its main function is to generate random verification codes that are entered after or instead of the password.
Basically, how it works consists of opening the application and logging into the account you want to strengthen. Once this is done and the two-step verification of said account is activated, Microsoft Authenticator will generate random key codes from time to timewhich you must enter to access your account.
How secure is Microsoft Authenticator?
Given the the keys generated by Microsoft Authenticator can be used to directly access accounts, it is necessary for the application to have a highly reinforced level of security, in order to keep these codes safe.
For this reason, before entering the accounts to the authenticator, It is necessary that the application has a security verificationnamely, facial recognition, fingerprint or a PIN. One of the main features of this authentication tool is the fact that the codes generated by the application have a limited duration of a few secondsafter which this code will change randomly.
Learn how to enable Microsoft Authenticator to sign in to Outlook without a password
Outlook It allows enable the Microsoft Authenticator app as an identity verification method both from its web portal and from the mobile application. Once enabled, Outlook will request the entry of the random code generated by the application in order to access your inbox.
Go for it:
From the phone
Activate this function from your mobile device is a really simple procedure, since It basically consists of logging into the application once downloaded. the app of Microsoft Authenticator it can be easily found from the application store of your preferred operating system.
Once downloaded, we just have to follow the procedure described below:
- Open the Microsoft Authenticator app and click on “I agree”.
- press about access “Sign in with Microsoft.”
- Enter your email address and press “Following”.
- Enter your password mail and click again on “Following”.
- The application will request an identity verification method. The options available to you are send a code to an alternate email account, or to a phone number that are registered in the data of your Outlook account.
- the next screen will give you a brief introduction to the appto which you must press the button “I understand”.
- you will see a message informing you that the application will be blocked so that you can only access it through PIN or fingerprint verification.
- press “To accept”.
One time the account is set up in the appmobile and browser login will be protected by Microsoft application authenticationmaking the password unnecessary for this action.
From the computer
To the set up outlook account in Microsoft Authenticator appthe account will ignore the password prompt automatically and the identification method will become a notification on the mobile device where the app is installed.
With this being the case, in order to access Outlook through this new login, all you need to do is:
- Open the Outlook websiteenter your email address and click “Following”.
- On your mobile, click on the authenticator push notification.
- press “Pass” in the message window that will appear.
- Enter the identity verification method (fingerprint or PIN).
Through this application, the use of the password is completely omitted and replaced by the authentication through the mobile device to sign in to your Outlook account.
How to log in if I don’t have access to the authenticator at a certain time?
If for any reason you do not have access to your mobile device when you sign in to Outlook, it will be impossible for you to use the authenticator to access your mailbox. Nevertheless, Outlook offers sign-in alternatives that you can use if you don’t have the authenticatorand it is possible to use them both in the computer version and in the mobile application
To access the other ways to log in, follow the procedure below:
- Enter the web portal of Outlook, Enter your email address and click “Following”.
- On the authentication request screen through Microsoft Authenticatorclick “Other ways to log in.”
- Select the option that is most convenient for you to login. For example, you can click “Use my password”.
- Enter your password Outlook to sign in.
In the event that you have lost your password, then the method will be slightly different, since access will take us to the password recovery page, through which you must reset a method to log in, as follows:
- Enter the Outlook website Enter your address address.
- click in “Following”.
- Choose the link “I don’t have access to my Microsoft Authenticator app.”
- Choose an identity verification method, You can choose between an email, or a phone number.
- Enter the code to be sent to the selected medium.
- Type the new password in the corresponding fields.
- click in “Following”.
- press in “Log in”.
- Enter your updated credentials to access your inbox outlook.
This method will re-enable the use of the password as the login login methodand it will allow you access your account in case your access to the authenticator is lost.
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