This page awaits an update. Please follow the University of Oulu’s MFA instructions, now that we are sharing the same M365 tenant. Everyone at Oamk has multifactor authentication (MFA) in use for the Microsoft Office 365 cloud service. If you are not familiar with MFA in general, please see how MFA protects your account from […]

The main purpose of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is to prevent the abuses of the user accounts. In practice MFA means that you verify, in other words approve your sign-ins on the phone, which has been connected with MFA. Because your phone is needed for the verification, no external quarter is able to abuse your user […]

The length of the password must be at least 12 characters, preferably more. Anything under 16 characters is considered a short password, actually nowadays the right term should be passphrase. There should not be any á, ä, ö or å etc. letters in the password, since there might be problems with these characters (if used in […]