If you are currently running into this scenario, hopefully, this helps you understand what you are looking at when prompted to log in to various applications. When logging in, the icon representing a Personal/Microsoft account looks like this: When logging in, the icon representing a work/organization account looks like this: If I have two accounts with the same email and password, how can I tell which one I am logging in with? That is how I ended up with 2 accounts using the same email address. In my case, I created a Microsoft/Personal account before our organization created an account for me. If a user uses an email address and password to sign in to these or other services, then the user already has a Microsoft account-but the user can also sign up for a new one at any time.” NOTE: some people may have a Microsoft account set up with the same email as the Organization Account (explained above) and while the same email is used they are actually separate account types. The Microsoft account is the combination of an email address and a password that a user uses to sign in to all consumer-oriented Microsoft products and cloud services such as Outlook (Hotmail), Messenger, OneDrive, MSN, Windows Phone or Xbox LIVE. Microsoft/Personal account, created by a user for personal use, is the new name for what used to be called “Windows Live ID” (or for some of us the VOICE/PartnerSource ID we used). An Organizational account can take the form of a user’s organizational email address, such as when an organization synchronizes its Active Directory accounts with Azure Active Directory. This is how Microsoft defines the difference between a Work/Organizational account and a Personal/Microsoft account:Īn organizational account is an account created by an organization’s administrator to enable a team member to access to all Microsoft cloud services such as Azure, Windows Intune or Office 365. This is where my log-in confusion starts: I'm from Microsoft, and I'm here to help The scam that supposedly involves Microsoft's. When logging into Visual Studio this is the prompt I get asking me to log in. If you know people who post ads online, you may want to warn them. This week I spent some time digging into these questions and I wanted to share what I found. I am never certain what the difference between Microsoft account log-ins or when I am using one versus the other. The accounts are exactly the same but one is a work account and one is a personal account. I have multiple accounts for logging into Lifecycle Services, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Team Services.
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