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Sign up with Microsoft Account vs Microsoft Tenant ?
I think it's better to use personal account if the things you want to talk about is personal, but work accounts can be setup too for organizations if the person is acting on behalf of a company.
so it's not like never use work account, it all depends on the situation.
- Reza_AmeriFeb 21, 2021Silver Contributor
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.
Here is the situation I observed, when you sign-in with the work account , then you are unable to switch to MSA or personal account and when you leave the company or you are moving to another company then practically you will lose your account.
However, in case you sign up with a personal account or MSA, when you join a company you could still add the tenant account and you may use it. Then once you left the company , you could just remove that account.
- HotCakeXFeb 21, 2021MVPYou're welcome,
yes I know how it works, recently one of the MSFT employees left the company for another job and their account was deleted.
it's fair, when you leave a place, you don't want leftovers stay there.
so it's neither good nor bad, just depends on the situation and what the person decides to do.
this community is not the only service that gets deleted when changing company.- Reza_AmeriFeb 22, 2021Silver Contributor
One issue I noticed is like someone is working at a company which is part of Microsoft tenant and then join another company with another Microsoft tenant or no Microsoft tenant and in this case, doing so would cause losing the account. Consider the case user want to continue participating in this forum and in this case, they have to start from the scratch.