How To Change Your Office 365 App Password

If you are enabled for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Office 365 then you will need an App Password for some applications that do not support MFA. The user interface for creating a new App Password is quite well hidden in Office 365 (its not on the Password page for example).

Here is how to find it.

1. The user logs into Office 365 portal (http://portal.office.com) and clicks the cog icon to the top-right of the page
2. Click Office 365 Settings
3. Scroll down past Password and choose Additional Security Verification
4. Click Update my phone numbers used for account security
5. Click “app passwords” on the top menu. This takes you to https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/AppPasswords.aspx. You can (and therefore should) bookmark this page now so you don’t need these instructions again!
6. Create yourself an additional app password and give it a description.
7. Use the new app password in the program that you need to login to.