How to change your password

For employees and students with Office 365 accounts

Direct link to change password: https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/ChangePassword.aspx

Direct link to change password recovery phone and email: https://aka.ms/ssprsetup

Direct link to password reset: https://aka.ms/sspr

If you are a former student or employee, call the Santa Fe College Contact Center (352-395-5000) to ensure you have a valid personal email address on file. Once you have verified your personal email address is up-to-date, please use the appropriate link to manage your password:

• Student Password Manager
• Staff Password Manager

Instructions

Setup contact information for password resets

1. If you do not have valid contact information saved in your account, you will be prompted to provide that information the next time you login. Click the "Next" button to proceed.
2. On the next screen, you can provide a non-SF email address, a phone number, or both.
   • If you elect to provide a phone number, select the country code and type the number, including the area code. When finished, click the "text me" button (cell phones only) or the "call me" button to receive a verification code. Enter the verification code in the appropriate box, and click the "verify" button.
   • If you elect to provide a non-SF email address, type the address in the Authentication Email box and click the "email me" button. Enter the verification code in the appropriate box, and click the "verify" button.
3. Once you have entered either a phone number or non-SF email address, you can click the "finish" button to complete the process.

Changing your password

1. Log in to Office 365's web interface (instructions on how to login).
2. After you have logged in, click on the Settings icon and select "Change your password".
3. On the following screen, type your current password in the "Old password" box, and the new password in the "Create new password" and "confirm new password" boxes. Once you are done, click the "submit" button.

Resetting your password

1. When logging in to Office 365, click on the "Can't access your account" link.
2. Type your email login/user name (not your email address) in the User ID box, type in the characters shown in the picture below that in the appropriate box, and then click the "Next" button.
3. Select which method you want to use to verify your identity.
4. Enter the verification code you received, and click the "Next" button.
5. Type a new password in the "Enter new password" and "Confirm new password" boxes, and click the "Finish" button.

Requirements

• Your password needs to contain an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number, AND a symbol somewhere in it
• Except for SFPD and ITS employees, the minimum password length is 8 characters (minimum for SFPD and ITS is 15 characters)
• The maximum password length is 20 characters
• Your password needs to be unique every time you change it -- you cannot change your password to something you have already used on the Santa Fe College system
• If you change your password while logged in to a computer on the SF network, you will need to log out and then log back in to the computer

Tips

• Passwords you create last 120 days
• Some servers/services synchronize more quickly than others, so your new password may work right away to log you in to your computer but may take 30 minutes or more to work on Office 365 or some other server/service
• How to create a strong password
• Test the strength of your password