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If you’re using Microsoft’s online services, you might reasonably expect to authenticate against some form of directory service. \u00a0And, if you have your own directory service (like\u00a0Active Directory), you might reasonably expect to be able to synchronise it with your cloud identity to provide a holistic view to end users. Unfortunately, whilst both of these things are possible, the end result can be really confusing and I’ve just had to explain it for one of my customers.<\/p>\n

You see, a “Microsoft account” is not what you use to log on to Office 365 (or Intune,\u00a0Azure, etc.) – for that you need an “Organizational account” (which is held in Microsoft Azure Active Directory<\/a>) – although you might have logged on to your Windows PC, phone or tablet with a Microsoft account.<\/p>\n

Still with me? No! Well, let me quote from an MSDN article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Q. What is the difference between \u201cOrganizational account\u201d and \u201cMicrosoft account\u201d?
\nOrganizational account<\/strong>\u00a0is an account created by an organization\u2019s administrator to enable a member of the organization access to all Microsoft cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Windows Intune or Office 365. An Organizational account can take the form of a user\u2019s organizational email address, such as\u00a0username@orgname.com<\/strong>, when an organization federates or synchronizes its Active Directory accounts with Azure Active Directory.\u00a0[…]<\/p>\n

Microsoft account<\/strong>, created by user for personal use, is the new name for what used to be called \u201cWindows\u00a0Live ID\u201d. The Microsoft account is the combination of an email address and a password that a user uses to sign in to all consumer-oriented Microsoft products and cloud services such as Outlook (Hotmail), Messenger, OneDrive, MSN, Windows\u00a0Phone or Xbox\u00a0LIVE. If a user uses an email address and password to sign in to these or other services, then the user already has a Microsoft account\u2014but the user can also sign up for a new one at any time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. Hopefully that’s a bit clearer? Unfortunately the whole thing gets really messy when you have multiple browser tabs connected to different services and I often find I have different browsers (or InPrivate\/Incognito browser sessions) running in parallel to access services. \u00a0One approach, although probably not recommended, is to manually synchronise the passwords between a Microsoft account and an Organizational account that have the same email address to\u00a0give the illusion of single sign-on.<\/p>\n

Maybe one day all of the consumer services will move to Azure\u00a0Active Directory and we can just have\u00a0a single identity. Probably not though… that’s what Microsoft Passport (Windows Live ID’s predecessor) was trying to do back in\u00a02001 and it felt a bit “big\u00a0brother” to some people (although today we seem quite happy to have Google and Facebook act as\u00a0identity providers for multiple services).<\/p>\n

Post Script<\/h3>\n

Since I wrote this post, “organizational accounts” have become known as “work or school accounts”, which I guess makes things a little clearer, even if the phase is a touch unwieldy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re using Microsoft’s online services, you might reasonably expect to authenticate against some form of directory service. \u00a0And, if you have your own directory service (like\u00a0Active Directory), you might reasonably expect to be able to synchronise it with your cloud identity to provide a holistic view to end users. 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