Setting up a user with a "Work" email address

I'm trying to add a user account to an office laptop running Windows 10
Home. She has an email address issued by head office. In the past,
I've simply created a Microsoft ID associated with the email address,
but now I get a popup saying I should use a personal email address.

I've fooled around, and found I can "Connect" the address concerned to
my own account on my own PC (running W10 Pro), but what I want is for
this lady to be able to use the same username both to log on to the
laptop and for her email.

It looks as if I have to create a local user (no Microsoft ID involved)
and then connect her office email address - but I don't see what that
actually achieves.

Any advice?


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Phil, London

On 28/02/2018 20:37, Philip Herlihy wrote:
I'm trying to add a user account to an office laptop running Windows 10
Home. She has an email address issued by head office. In the past,
I've simply created a Microsoft ID associated with the email address,
but now I get a popup saying I should use a personal email address.

I've fooled around, and found I can "Connect" the address concerned to
my own account on my own PC (running W10 Pro), but what I want is for
this lady to be able to use the same username both to log on to the
laptop and for her email.

It looks as if I have to create a local user (no Microsoft ID involved)
and then connect her office email address - but I don't see what that
actually achieves.

Any advice?



You always setup windows to use local Account. Using Microsoft Account
to login on Windows require Internet 24/7 and this, IMHO, is not a good
idea.


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On 02/28/2018 12:37 PM, Philip Herlihy wrote:
I'm trying to add a user account to an office laptop running Windows 10
Home. She has an email address issued by head office. In the past,
I've simply created a Microsoft ID associated with the email address,
but now I get a popup saying I should use a personal email address.

I've fooled around, and found I can "Connect" the address concerned to
my own account on my own PC (running W10 Pro), but what I want is for
this lady to be able to use the same username both to log on to the
laptop and for her email.

It looks as if I have to create a local user (no Microsoft ID involved)
and then connect her office email address - but I don't see what that
actually achieves.

Any advice?



Hi Philip,

I dislike those M$ cloud accounts. I would

1) create a local account of whatever name you please.
If you reuse her eMail address, yo are going to confuse
her.

2) set up her eMail client with iMap or a Web interface.
Give her an icon to click on that pops her directly into
her eMail. I prefer Thunderbird.

-T

In article , lid says...

On 02/28/2018 12:37 PM, Philip Herlihy wrote:
I'm trying to add a user account to an office laptop running Windows 10
Home. She has an email address issued by head office. In the past,
I've simply created a Microsoft ID associated with the email address,
but now I get a popup saying I should use a personal email address.

I've fooled around, and found I can "Connect" the address concerned to
my own account on my own PC (running W10 Pro), but what I want is for
this lady to be able to use the same username both to log on to the
laptop and for her email.

It looks as if I have to create a local user (no Microsoft ID involved)
and then connect her office email address - but I don't see what that
actually achieves.

Any advice?



Hi Philip,

I dislike those M$ cloud accounts. I would

1) create a local account of whatever name you please.
If you reuse her eMail address, yo are going to confuse
her.

2) set up her eMail client with iMap or a Web interface.
Give her an icon to click on that pops her directly into
her eMail. I prefer Thunderbird.

-T

Well, there are advantages. She'll be moving machines in a few weeks,
so her settings will carry over automtically, and she'll have single-
sign-on (SSO) to OneDrive, OneNote and the other MS bits and pieces.

We've created a Microsoft account associated with a mailbox she won't
use. It looks like MS are seeking to distinguish the two families of
SSO networks they use: the MS ID for consumers and the Azure-based
Active Directory for business users (where SSO escalates in value). A
local server running Active Directory is a third option, of course. She
has an Azure AD account by virtue of the Office365 email account
provided by Head Office, so that (now) rules out using an MS ID.

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Phil, London