Add Backup Options for Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication

Add Backup Options for Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication

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Updated 2/26/2025

Visit https://mysignins.microsoft.com/security-info

Login using your @my.gulfcoast.edu email address and password

Enter your response to “Stay signed in?” Recommended: If you are on a shared computer select “No”. 

Select + Add sign-in method

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Choose the Additional MFA option you want to add to your account  

Select Add

Follow the prompts to enroll the backup device or phone number.

Available Options:

• Authenticator App: Microsoft Authenticator can be installed on secondary phones or tablets and associated with your account for MFA

• Alternate Phone: Can be an alternate phone number (Cellular, Landline or VoIP)

• Email: Can be an alternate email address you have access to which you can verify yourself from

  *Please note, alternate emails cannot be used for account login (e.g. MFA), it is only for password resets.

• Security Key: A personally owned FiDO2 device key such as a Yubikey, Titan Security Key or Windows Hello

• Office Phone: Useful if you have a phone number and direct extension

  *Please consider any additional prompts your offices phone system may require to get to entering a user’s office extension