Hi, Brendan. Thanks for reaching out! I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you, and I am here to work with you on this issue.
Brendan, this is an oficial link from Microsoft. That's the Microsoft Account Recovery form used to recovery an account, not to verify it.
For a step by step instruction in filling-up the form, you may refer to the following resource from Microsoft:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com...
But I don't think is you case, right?
To verify you Outlook account, you can try this link here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-...
I hope this helps! ;)
Kind regards,