Impossible to sign in with different user account

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I use this browser with two MS accounts. The techcommunity does not let me choose the user account to sign in with! I'm forced to open a private window to sign in and write this feedback.

So when clicking Sign In, it thinks I want to sign in with my M365 company account, and asks me to accept certain permissions. However, I want to sign in with my personal MS account. So I click cancel and get redirected to the home page.

So, in order to visit the site with my personal MS account, must either use a private windows, or clear every single cookie for every single Microsoft domain, which is also NOT what I want to do.

This is simply unacceptable and driving me away from using the techcommunity at all!

I made a video for you to show you how broken the sign in flow is: https://i.imgur.com/KnxnPKM.mp4

allen · Answer

DanielNiccoli&nbsp;
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I am afraid the information Eric has provided is correct here. We literally have no control over the authentication process.&nbsp;

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As you can see from the above graph, the Microsoft Login service is self contained and handles Credential collection, validation and error handling and is the same for the entire of Microsoft, you would have the same issue if you went to account.microsoft.com in that it would login with the same profile you have active in edge. I have spoken with the Edge Team about this before and their only suggestion is to use the "Browse as guest" function in Microsoft Edge if you want to login to Microsoft site with any other profile than the one your signed into the browser with.&nbsp;
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We are going to change our connection with the Login service next year but, at this stage, I don't think that's going to have an effect on this behavior, I will of course update if during the course of scoping this change out I find out differently.
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weald_spatial · Answer

I am on Chrome and have had to login with this work account because I can't find a way to login with my other personal Microsoft account.

deleted · Answer

HelloIn Edge, please add a profile for your personal account - for me it works.Then the browser logs in automatically when synchronization is enabled for the logged in user.Best regards

ericstarker · Answer

I’m assuming by this that you are using Microsoft Edge. Edge automatically authenticates for the account signed into it.

If you click your profile picture on the top right of Edge, there is an option called “Browse as guest,” that will stop it logging you in.

Unfortunately, since this is related to Edge, rather than our own site, there’s nothing additional we can do about this, but I hope this fixes it for you!

danielniccoli · Answer

EricStarker&nbsp;Yes, I use Edge.&nbsp;No, I am not signed in with any account.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the account that Technetcommunity tries to sign me in with, is also not my Windows account.&nbsp;EricStarker&nbsp;wrote:Unfortunately, since this is related to Edge, rather than our own site, there’s nothing additional we can do about this, but I hope this fixes it for you!I think you are a bit quick to jump to the conclusion that it is unrelated to the techcommunity. Because even IF edge is trying to do a SSO, the techcommunity can still interrupt that process to offer me a way to sign in with a different account. At the very last at the point where I click CANCEL because I don't want to grant those permissions.

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