You might be able to use a “normal” (TOTP-compliant / Google Authenticator-like) 2FA app even with Microsoft work accounts.
One of the prompts to download MS Authenticator has a “use a different app” option:
I assume admins can disable it, but it’s also easy to miss.
On top of this, this prompt only shows up when attempting to add a new MS Authenticator, since there is no “other app” option among the authenticator type choices.
In my country, Microsoft has inserted itself into the education system. If you want to learn system / network admin so you can run IT at pretty much any local business, it’s all Microsoft.
To be fair, Active Directory does make it easier to manage a bunch of windows boxes with consistent users and permissions. When your users are business people mashing Excel spreadsheets all day, and build their lives and identities around Excel, you pretty much have to give them the environment that Excel runs in, which is Microsoft.
There’s a government-tier system used by lots of schools, cities, etc. It fucking SUCKS.
Like: if you have Outlook on your mobile device and add a government system account, it makes you remove any other accounts. Even if those other accounts are part of the same organization.
And since I manage more than 1 email account that need to go to separate inboxes for legal reasons, I get to carry 3 phones and a tablet.
Did I mention the part where I work for a municipal government by day and teach at a public university by night? It’s 2 phones and a tablet for the city, one for the university, and a 4th phone I didn’t mention for me.
Though the school phone usually gets left in my bag. I teach scuba and underwater photography. Nobody’s gonna lose their house over me waiting a few days to respond to an email. The only time my duties there are critical is when I’m actively with the students. Then it’s more important because pressurized encironkents and breathing and stuff.
But I also don’t take my phone underwater ^(on purpose).
Normal Microsoft Account does support “normal 2FA”. However, my school MS Account only supports microsoft’s own protocol, which is not supported by other authenticators (Aegis, Ente, Raivo, etc).
I hate MS Auth so badly. Why don’t they just implement the “normal” 2FA instead? MS doesn’t work with Ente Auth
You might be able to use a “normal” (TOTP-compliant / Google Authenticator-like) 2FA app even with Microsoft work accounts. One of the prompts to download MS Authenticator has a “use a different app” option:
I assume admins can disable it, but it’s also easy to miss. On top of this, this prompt only shows up when attempting to add a new MS Authenticator, since there is no “other app” option among the authenticator type choices.
Nah I guess our admins have disabled it. fuck…
microsoft has sucked arse for eons. the real q is why the fuck IT keeps buying their shit.
Their sales department gets all the budget.
In my country, Microsoft has inserted itself into the education system. If you want to learn system / network admin so you can run IT at pretty much any local business, it’s all Microsoft.
To be fair, Active Directory does make it easier to manage a bunch of windows boxes with consistent users and permissions. When your users are business people mashing Excel spreadsheets all day, and build their lives and identities around Excel, you pretty much have to give them the environment that Excel runs in, which is Microsoft.
Idk, they probably want someone to blame
Idk my microsoft account works fine with ente auth.
There’s a government-tier system used by lots of schools, cities, etc. It fucking SUCKS.
Like: if you have Outlook on your mobile device and add a government system account, it makes you remove any other accounts. Even if those other accounts are part of the same organization.
And since I manage more than 1 email account that need to go to separate inboxes for legal reasons, I get to carry 3 phones and a tablet.
Wowie what a horrible system
Did I mention the part where I work for a municipal government by day and teach at a public university by night? It’s 2 phones and a tablet for the city, one for the university, and a 4th phone I didn’t mention for me.
Though the school phone usually gets left in my bag. I teach scuba and underwater photography. Nobody’s gonna lose their house over me waiting a few days to respond to an email. The only time my duties there are critical is when I’m actively with the students. Then it’s more important because pressurized encironkents and breathing and stuff.
But I also don’t take my phone underwater ^(on purpose).
Normal Microsoft Account does support “normal 2FA”. However, my school MS Account only supports microsoft’s own protocol, which is not supported by other authenticators (Aegis, Ente, Raivo, etc).
Ah that sucks. My UNI supports it so I just have everything inside ente.
Bruh. One more reason to hate my country
Why the whole country? Just hate the school
You’re right. I’m just fed up with this place, you know…
What country is “this place” if I may ask?