Azure / Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication reset

tl;dr

Always set up more than one method for Multi Factor Authentication whenever possible. It will help you out, no matter the platform.

Based on my answer @ Stackoverflow:

multi factor authentication – How does a Guest User reset their MS Authenticator MFA settings in Azure Active Directory? – Stack Overflow

Table of Contents

• The Pain
• Manage MFA settings (if all is good)
• But wait! I need MFA to change my MFA settings?
• What to do if you lost all MFA methods for a particular organisation

The Pain

Last month I needed to reset my phone because it was stuck in a boot-loop. So, I could write a blogpost about what kind of phone it was and why it showed this behavior. But instead, I like to address another kind of hassle that followed: Resetting my MFA in Azure tenants i was a guest in.

The only way out of the boot-loop was a hard factory reset of my phone. And this meant losing the authenticator app and all its MFA accounts.