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Sign up with Microsoft Account vs Microsoft Tenant ?
Hi, We are able to sign up Microsoft Tech Community using personal Microsoft Account and Microsoft tenant like Microsoft365 Azure and so on. The issue is when you login with tenant account and fo...
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.
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.
- You'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.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.
