Multifactor authentication

Multi-factor authentication is used to protect your account and secure your identity. By installing and setting up the Microsoft Authenticator App, your phone becomes a physical key to your account. As a student or employee at AAU you can find instructions on how to set up your multifactor authentication on your mobile devices.

Multifactor authentication

Are you considering buying a new phone?

If you have acquired a new device, you need to manually transfer your account from the old device to the new. Please follow you guide for new devices.

Multiple devices?

If you are adding more devices, then it is a good idea to name them in order to distinguish them from each other.

Change the standard method from SMS to Authenticator-App, or the other way around

Open the Chrome browser on your computer in an incognito window – Read how to open an incognito window here
Write https://aka.ms/mfasetup in the address bar and login with your AAU-Username and password
Verify with either SMS or Authenticator app
Log in
Go to safety information, where you have an overview of your added devices

From standard method for login, you can see which standard method you use. If it says Microsoft Authenticator – message, then the standard applied is the Authenticator app

Click Change
Choose the method you wish to use, either Phone – SMS + your number or Microsoft Authenticator – message
Click Confirm

You can now see your standard method on how you wish to validate log ins has changed.

Multifactor authentication

Multifactor authentication

Change the standard method from SMS to Authenticator-App, or the other way around

External visitors without an AAU-Account, who needs to use multi-factor authentication

A number instead of notification in Authenticator app

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