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Help me make sense of my multiple accounts in Teams (free)
I would need some help to understand the different accounts I have access to through Teams. Although I am a fairly frequent and experienced user of internet based applications, I find the accounts in...
In your case I believe you will always be choosing Personal account. The only time you use Work or School is for tenants with paid licenses. It is very confusing sometimes because they are really all Microsoft Accounts. Just that one is the Free End user type of account that may be associated to Outlook.com, Live, Hotmail, or any of the other Free Consumer type of service and the Work or School which is also a Microsoft services account, but it is a licensed or paid type of Microsoft account.
It gets even more complicated if a Person has a Paid Microsoft Office account that they then try to use along with Teams in either the Free Teams or the Paid Teams.
It gets even more complicated if a Person has a Paid Microsoft Office account that they then try to use along with Teams in either the Free Teams or the Paid Teams.
Forrest_H Confusing indeed. To say the least. But what about the two different accounts in my name—one personal, and one seemingly for my (one person) company (but still free)—that I see in my Iphone? Are they two different accounts? And could I delete one of them?
I have a vague idea that the second account in my name might have been created when I accepted the guest invitation from a client's company which is a tenant with a paid license (I just remember that it was a fairly long and confusing process to accept the invitation, where I had to register again and choose a new password). But I might be wrong about that.
In that case, however, deleting that account might disconnect me from the client's guest account?
- If the one you set for your company uses a different domain email then it is really a separate Microsoft account and would have a different and separate experience than the other Personal one not associated to the company.
In my opinion, this all started when Microsoft had their Passport service that allowed you to have one ID to authenticate to all the Microsoft services. They let other domain accounts be used for a Passport account. So Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail, Live.com etc. can all be used to create a Microsoft (Azure) account now.