Forum Discussion
Sign up with Microsoft Account vs Microsoft Tenant ?
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.
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.
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.
- Nothing is lost, the questions and posts will stay there. just the account itself gets deleted.
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.
