How to Create App Password & Disable Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365

How to Create App Password & Disable/Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365

Turn-on Two-Fact Authentication and Generate App Password in Office 365 Account.

Enable two-factor authentication and generate app password for your Office 365 account. It will help you adding extra security to your O365 account and also helps you in accessing or logging into any third-party application.

For the generation of an App Password, do as follows:

Step 1: Login to your Office 365 account using the admin login credentials.

Step 2: Then, press the Settings Gear icon at the top.

Step 3: Under that, click on the Update Contact Preferences option.

Step 4: Choose the Security Info option from the left side panel.

Step 5: Now, hit the Add Method option to proceed further.

Step 6: In the Add Method tab, pick the App password option from the drop-down options.

Step 7: After that, press the Add button.

Step 8: Enter the name for which you are creating the password and hit Next.

Step 9: Finally, your App Password will be successfully created. Press the Done button to finish.

Enable Multi-Factor Authentication in Office 365

Step 1: Sign In to your Office 365 account.

Step 2: Click on the App Launcher icon and select the Admin option.

Step 3: Then, pick the Show all option on the left panel in the Microsoft Admin Center.

Step 4: Now, Click on Users and under that choose Active users.

Step 5: After that, select the Multi-factor authentication tab.

Step 6: Click on the account in which you wish to enable the Multi-factor authentication, and select the Enable option.

Step 7: Press on the enable multi-factor auth button.

Step 8: You will get a notification displaying the confirmation of successfully enabling Multi-factor authentication in your Office 365 account.

To Enforce the Multi-Factor Authentication

Step 9: Pick the enabled account and click on the Enforce option after you select the user.

Step 10: Then, press the enforce multi-factor auth option to proceed.

Step 11: Finally, you have enforced the selected account.

Disable Multi-Factor Authentication

Step 1: First of all, open settings after logging in to your Office 365 account.

Step 2: Now, click on the Admin icon to use Office 365 as an administrator.

Step 3: After that, expand the Users tab, and hit the Active User option.

Step 4: Open the list of users by clicking on the Multi-Factor Authentication button.

Step 5: Pick the user whose MFA needs to be disabled.

Step 6: Now, click on the Disable button and hit the Yes button in the succeeding message box.

Step 7: At last, hit the close button to end the process.

Step 1: Login to your Office 365 Account and click on Admin under the App Launcher.

Step 2: Click on Users tab and choose Active Users.

Step 3: Choose Admin Account to login into DRS Office 365 Backup & Restore Tool and click on the Mail Option of the selected admin user account.

Step 4: Now, click on Manage Email Apps under the Email Apps option.

Step 5: Finally, click on the last option i.e., Authenticated SMTP and click Save changes.

If you are still unable to login your Office 365 account while using DRS Office 365 Email Backup Tool, it is advised to perform below steps to turn off enable security default option.

Step 1: Login your Office 365 account.

Step 2: Click on the App Launcher icon appearing at the top left corner.

Step 3: Under Microsoft Office 365, click on the Admin option.

Step 4: Here in the Microsoft 365 Admin center, click on the Show all option as shown in the screenshot.

Step 5: Under Admin centers, click on the third option, i.e., Azure Active Directory.

Step 6: Now, in the Azure Active Directory admin center dashboard, click on the Azure Active Directory option.

Step 7: Now click on the properties option.

Step 8: Now scroll down the page and click on Manage Security Defaults.

Step 9: Once you click on the Manage security default option, you will get a Enable Security Default option. Click on the No option and check all the four option below and click on Save button.