Windows 10: How to remove "switch to school or work account" option on microsoft edge web-browser

Sultana Parvin · Oct 24, 2022

Today i was at school and we used microsoft word, I did not have my school device so I had to use my personal laptop. We used microsoft word and told us to sign in with our DOE accounts, and I did that and it said that the DOE would make changes to my device. And it did. For example on the web-browser edge when i would search something the small person icon next to the search bar would have 2 options "Microsoft account" and "work or school account". Also there was a "school" option next to the all and shopping option when you search something. When i shutdown my computer it opens up microsoft

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Brink · Oct 24, 2022

Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge builds

A top piece of feedback we’ve heard from Microsoft Edge Insiders is that you want to be able to roam your settings and browsing data across your work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re excited to announce that Azure Active Directory work and school accounts now support sign-in and sync in the latest Canary, Dev, and Beta channel preview builds of Microsoft Edge.

By signing in with a work or school account, you will unlock two great experiences: your settings will sync across devices, and you’ll enjoy fewer sign-in prompts thanks to single sign-on (Web SSO).

Personalized experiences across devices

When signed in with an organizational account on any preview channel, Microsoft Edge is able to sync your browser data across all your devices that are signed in with the same account. Today, your favorites, preferences, passwords, and form-fill data will sync; in future previews, we’ll expand this to support other attributes like your browsing history, installed extensions, and open tabs. You can control which available attributes to sync, once you enable the feature from the sync settings page. Sync makes the web a more personal, seamless experience across all devices—the less time you have to spend managing your experience, the more time you’ll have to get things done.

Single sign-on across work or school sites

Once you’ve signed in to your organizational account in Microsoft Edge, we’ll use those credentials to authenticate you to websites and services that support Web Single Sign-On. This helps keep you productive by cutting down on unnecessary sign-in prompts on the web. When you access web content which is authenticated with your signed in account, Microsoft Edge will simply sign you in to the website you’re trying to access.

To try this, just navigate to Office.com while signed into Edge with your work or school account. Notice that you didn’t need to sign in with your username and password—you are simply authenticated to the website and can access your content immediately. This also works on other web properties that recognize the organizational account you are signed in to.

How to sign in with your work or school account

To get started with an organizational account in Microsoft Edge, all you have to do is sign in and turn on sync. Just click the profile icon to the right of your address bar and click “Sign In” (if you’re already signed in with a personal account, you’ll have to “Add a profile” first and then sign into the new profile with your work or school account.)

At the sign-in prompt, select any of your existing work or school accounts (on Windows 10) or enter your email, phone, or Skype credentials into the sign-in field (on macOS or older versions of Windows) and sign in.

Once you’re signed in, follow the prompts asking if you want to sync your browsing data to enable sync. That’s it! To learn more about sync, check out our previous article on syncing in Microsoft Edge preview channels. You can always change your settings or disable sync at any time by clicking your profile icon and selecting “Manage profile settings.”

What do you think of sign-in with your work or school account?

We are excited to bring you work/school account sign-in and sync in the Microsoft Edge Insider channels. We hope to make your everyday web surfing experience a breeze. However, we want to be sure that sign-in, as well as all the personalized experiences, actually work for you. Please give sign-in a try and let us know how you like it – or not. If you run into any issues, use the in-app feedback button to submit the details. If you have other feedback about work/school account sign-in or personalized experiences, we welcome your comments below.

Thank you for helping us build the next version of Microsoft Edge that’s right for you.

– Avi Vaid, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
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Source: Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge Insider builds - Microsoft Edge Blog

See also: Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds are now ready for you to try
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Brink · Oct 24, 2022

Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge builds Insider

A top piece of feedback we’ve heard from Microsoft Edge Insiders is that you want to be able to roam your settings and browsing data across your work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re excited to announce that Azure Active Directory work and school accounts now support sign-in and sync in the latest Canary, Dev, and Beta channel preview builds of Microsoft Edge.

By signing in with a work or school account, you will unlock two great experiences: your settings will sync across devices, and you’ll enjoy fewer sign-in prompts thanks to single sign-on (Web SSO).

Personalized experiences across devices

When signed in with an organizational account on any preview channel, Microsoft Edge is able to sync your browser data across all your devices that are signed in with the same account. Today, your favorites, preferences, passwords, and form-fill data will sync; in future previews, we’ll expand this to support other attributes like your browsing history, installed extensions, and open tabs. You can control which available attributes to sync, once you enable the feature from the sync settings page. Sync makes the web a more personal, seamless experience across all devices—the less time you have to spend managing your experience, the more time you’ll have to get things done.

Single sign-on across work or school sites

Once you’ve signed in to your organizational account in Microsoft Edge, we’ll use those credentials to authenticate you to websites and services that support Web Single Sign-On. This helps keep you productive by cutting down on unnecessary sign-in prompts on the web. When you access web content which is authenticated with your signed in account, Microsoft Edge will simply sign you in to the website you’re trying to access.

To try this, just navigate to Office.com while signed into Edge with your work or school account. Notice that you didn’t need to sign in with your username and password—you are simply authenticated to the website and can access your content immediately. This also works on other web properties that recognize the organizational account you are signed in to.

How to sign in with your work or school account

To get started with an organizational account in Microsoft Edge, all you have to do is sign in and turn on sync. Just click the profile icon to the right of your address bar and click “Sign In” (if you’re already signed in with a personal account, you’ll have to “Add a profile” first and then sign into the new profile with your work or school account.)

At the sign-in prompt, select any of your existing work or school accounts (on Windows 10) or enter your email, phone, or Skype credentials into the sign-in field (on macOS or older versions of Windows) and sign in.

Once you’re signed in, follow the prompts asking if you want to sync your browsing data to enable sync. That’s it! To learn more about sync, check out our previous article on syncing in Microsoft Edge preview channels. You can always change your settings or disable sync at any time by clicking your profile icon and selecting “Manage profile settings.”

What do you think of sign-in with your work or school account?

We are excited to bring you work/school account sign-in and sync in the Microsoft Edge Insider channels. We hope to make your everyday web surfing experience a breeze. However, we want to be sure that sign-in, as well as all the personalized experiences, actually work for you. Please give sign-in a try and let us know how you like it – or not. If you run into any issues, use the in-app feedback button to submit the details. If you have other feedback about work/school account sign-in or personalized experiences, we welcome your comments below.

Thank you for helping us build the next version of Microsoft Edge that’s right for you.

– Avi Vaid, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
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Source: Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge Insider builds - Microsoft Edge Blog

See also: Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds are now ready for you to try

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Brink · Oct 24, 2022

Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps

The pandemic fundamentally transformed the way people work, and with that, hybrid work is more common now than ever. As the boundaries between work and personal are overlapping, Microsoft users typically wear multiple hats and switch contexts throughout their workday to get their work done and stay productive.

One way Microsoft users accomplish their tasks is using Microsoft 365 web apps. Users can have multiple accounts – work and personal – to achieve different goals ranging from organizing a work meeting, collaborating with an external organization, or even planning a family vacation. Today, web users can only work with a single account inside of a Microsoft 365 web app, and to use a different account, they must either sign out, use an InPrivate browser window, or a different browser or device altogether.

Today, we have some exciting news to share! Soon, Microsoft 365 web users will no longer need workarounds to use multiple work (Azure Active Directory) and personal (Microsoft Account) accounts while using any of the Microsoft 365 web apps. Users will now be able to sign into multiple accounts in the same browser, and seamlessly switch between the accounts without needing to sign out and sign back in.

From April to June, this functionality will be rolled out in Worldwide environments of Office.com, Word, Excel, PowerPoint for the web, Outlook on the web, OneDrive for the web, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 admin center.

Account switching in Microsoft 365 web apps is helpful in many scenarios. Based on past customer conversations, here are two common scenarios where we believe account switching will simplify user tasks:

Kara is associated with more than one organization for her work: She is employed with a consulting company, Contoso, through which she provides support to another organization, Fabrikam, using two separate work accounts. Previously, she would need to work in a regular browser and an InPrivate window to work and collaborate across the two organizations. Now with account switching, Kara can easily switch between her Contoso and Fabrikam accounts in the same browser.

Marcus is planning a family trip using his personal account, but also needs to send emails from his work account. Previously, Marcus needed to sign out of one account and then sign into the other. Now with account switching, he can easily switch between his personal and work accounts to accomplish his tasks.

To get started with account switching, access any of the Microsoft 365 web apps referenced above and click on the account manager located in the top right corner. There, you can add a new account or switch to an existing signed-in account in the browser. Upon a successful add or switch, the page will refresh with content from the new account in the same browser tab.

While a user can add multiple accounts in a Microsoft 365 web app, only one account will be active per app at a time. If a user ends up with two or more browser app tabs with different accounts, users will be notified to refresh the tabs with non-active accounts.

It is important to note that we are not changing data access permissions or mixing data from different accounts and organizations. With this feature, we are helping reduce the friction users face when wanting to work with multiple accounts in the Microsoft 365 web apps. Security and privacy are extremely important for both Microsoft and our customers, and this feature maintains data integrity and privacy across different account and organization boundaries. In other words, each account will continue to only have access to the data they have permissions for.

For more information on this announcement, see Message Center post MC338712.

Ready to try it out? Check out these helpful FAQs:

Q. What happens if a user adds accounts in one browser, and then goes to a different browser or starts using the Microsoft 365 native client applications? Will all of the user’s accounts show up there? 

A. No, they will not - unless the user explicitly adds them there or the account is joined to the device. This feature is on a per browser instance, so for example, if a user adds their personal and work accounts in a Microsoft 365 web app on a Microsoft Edge browser and then goes to a different browser, their accounts do not automatically show up there.

Q. As a tenant admin, can I turn this off for my organization?

A. While there is not an admin control to turn off this functionality for a particular tenant, it is important to note that this feature will maintain data integrity and privacy across organizational boundaries. We understand that some organizations may want even stricter controls by restricting access of Microsoft 365 applications to a specific set of tenants while disallowing all other sign-ins. Such organizations may want to look at tenant restrictions functionality from Azure Active Directory.

Q. Is this the same thing as the Microsoft Edge browser profile?

A. No, they may look similar, but account switching offers a different functionality than Edge profiles. While users can have different profiles with different accounts, feedback from customers showed that users want to be able to switch their accounts while staying in the same profile and browser. Users will still have the ability to switch between their Edge profiles, but we are now bringing the highly requested account switching functionality to the Microsoft 365 web apps.

Q. When will users get it for other Microsoft 365 web apps?

A. We are actively working on bringing more Microsoft 365 web apps in scope. Please stay tuned for further announcements.

Q. Are there any environments or browser scenarios where this would not work?

A. The account switching functionality is not available for Microsoft 365 operated via 21Vianet, or Microsoft 365 Government and Germany cloud environments.

This feature will also not work if third-party cookies are disabled in a browser. We recommend keeping tracking prevention to Balanced (Default) for Microsoft Edge, and third-party cookies enabled for other browsers.

Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Check out what features are in development and coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or to view the roadmap item for this account switching feature, click here .
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...s/ba-p/3290787

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