Forum Discussion
Sign up with Microsoft Account vs Microsoft Tenant ?
it's normal and expected behavior, when you're part of a tenant and company, and then you leave, the data should be deleted for security and privacy reasons.
like i already said, user has a choice to use personal or work Microsoft account.
True, however here is the case:
Let say I sign up with Microsoft Account and start participating this forum. Then I am joined a company and in that case, I am able to add the Microsoft tenant account and access other resources. Then when I left the company or join another company, I will lose access to my Microsoft tenant but since I still have access to the Microsoft Account, then I won't lose access to this network and I only lose access to some private resources here.
However, in case I sign up with tenant account. There is no possibility to add Microsoft Account and once you lose the tenant , you will lose your access to Microsoft Technical Community.
My purpose design is like having ability to add Microsoft Account to the tenant and let say consider a Microsoft employee (the example you mentioned) will leave this Microsoft and lose access to the tenant. In this case, if they could add access to Microsoft Account as additional account to their tenant and once left the Microsoft, the Microsoft tenant will be expired and therefore access to private resources here will be revoked but since they have personal account, they would be able to continue using this website (while they lost access to private resources associated with Microsoft Account) and in this case, they won't lose access to their contributions and badges in this community.
This is look like role-based access control.
I am wondering what do you think about this?
The problem here is when you have Microsoft tenant you couldn't switch to Microsoft Account but when you are Microsoft Account, you could add Microsoft tenant and then remove it.
- I've already told you what I think about this.
it's normal and expected behavior, when you're part of a tenant and company, and then you leave, the data should be deleted for security and privacy reasons.
each company has its own data retention and deletion protocols.
user has a choice to use personal or work Microsoft account.Thank you for clarification and I got you point.
So I am wondering about the other part, let say someone login with tenant account and leaving the company but want to keep using Microsoft Technical Community. I agreed with the point where leaving company means removing account but how about user wanted to continue using Microsoft Technical Community:
1) Create a new account and start again
2) Add Microsoft Account and remove tenant account
Other websites supports this behavior so you could add multiple accounts and you could login with both and once you lose access to one , then you could delete it but your access to account will remains.
Thank you for contributing to this discussion, I appreciate it.
- Adding a Microsoft account and removing tenant account is not compliant with data security and privacy protocols of companies.
if user wants to continue using this website after they leave a company, assuming they made an account with their work account, intentionally, then they have to make a personal account and use that instead.
