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Allow removal of "Connected to Windows" accounts from Edge profiles
I love being able to create multiple profiles for the various accounts and services I have to use, I am now up to 7. It's great to be able to separate them and just utilize sso to do what I need without constantly having to login to each admin console.
The problem is that every once in a while, my "Connected to Windows" account get associated with a profile and it becomes a royal nuisance. The only way I have seen to fix it is to delete the profile and start over and that hasn't always worked.
On any profile, you can "Sign-Out" or "Sign-Out and Forget" a non-Connected to Windows account. I would like to see the option to "Remove from this Profile" option for the Connected to Windows account.
It would also be great if when setting up a new profile there was a more streamlined process to add a work account that won't let the company manage the pc and is only for this application. Perhaps after adding one work account to Edge, the default should be reversed?
Thanks for the feedback, we've heard this from other users too. Re: the connected to windows accounts, we are working to remove this but since it is cross group collaboration, it may take a while. We eventually would like to just sign you in with the profile account.
Re: Adding an account only to the app, if you select the "This app only" option in the sign in flow where you are asked to manage the device, the account won't be added to the computer and nor will your device get managed.
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Thanks for the feedback, we've heard this from other users too. Re: the connected to windows accounts, we are working to remove this but since it is cross group collaboration, it may take a while. We eventually would like to just sign you in with the profile account.
Re: Adding an account only to the app, if you select the "This app only" option in the sign in flow where you are asked to manage the device, the account won't be added to the computer and nor will your device get managed.
- I too am affected by this issue. I recently added my school (university) account in Edge within a new profile on my work computer and found out that either I get logged in automatically (on some pages) with the wrong account or I have to choose my school account on for each app again. This is really disturbing.
A possibility to unlink accounts from Edge or correctly respect the account used for the profile should really be implemented.
This morning, I logged in within Edge on a Windows Server 2022 while I was trying to setup a backup software. Because that login wasn't kept after clicking on a link with the software, I decided to choose the synchronization option. Now, the account remains linked to the administrator account of that server. I tried every hint I found in this context but failed to remove the connection.
Eventually, I found this discussion. Hopefully, the issue will be corrected soon, although I have little hope considering the request is almost three years old.
