Windows 10: Moving MSA account to Azure AD

hi all - my wife's small business uses Office365 and I'm about to upgrade their PCs to Win10. One of the expected benefits is that they'll be able to login using their O365 credentials, whereas at the moment everyone has a MSA (blah.blah@outlook.com) to login in the PC, and then has cached their O365 creds within. The problem is that the password expires on O365 so they end up with 2 accounts, different names and different passwords.

So, I tried an experiment on her home PC, which is already on Win10, by joining to Azure AD (as per Logging into Windows 10 Pro using Office 365 credentials - Windows 10 Forums) and she can log in using her O365 account (yay!) however it's a new user profile, so none of her existing preferences, history, favorites etc have been carried across (boo).

So now we have a MSA with cached O365 creds that she's been using to date, and an O365 account with the MSA as a secondary (in the hope that it will at least sync between the two), however that doesn't seem optimal.

Can anyone suggest a way of migrating the old settings, cookies, preferences etc from the old MSA account profile to the new O365 one? I'd rather not have to manually hack about in registry, copying over hidden folders & files etc, if I could avoid it...

thanks!


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How to set window 10 home edition

AAD = Azure Active Directory. ie. an Azure Administrator account I believe.

As Lawrence has stated your MSA is your Microsoft Account ie. the account you use to sign into Windows 10 Insider.

 

Win 10 Sync settings option can't turn on

This happens when you have an office365 account added in windows. Remove it and you will be fine and log in with an MSA. Usually very little impact depending on how you use office 365. You have to sign up for Azure AD unless I am incorrect to use sync with
an added office365 account if removing it defeats the purpose of using office365 accounts as sign in accounts.

I agree some answers in this forum are beyond idiotic