Windows 10: "There is a problem with your Microsoft account" message

This is a tangly issue for me. Earlier this week, when I signed in to my work computer, there was a message saying:

It's a legitimate Microsoft message; you can find lots of pages online talking about it, but many are from Microsoft itself, with "copy/paste" one-size-fits-all ill-fitting "solutions."

I have not had a functionality problem with the computer, or with my copy of Office, this week. All work fine. So I'm inclined to ignore the error, except I hate having unresolved error messages.

The "tangle" I refer to in the issue is that the message doesn't even mention WHICH "Microsoft account" this pertains to. I have my Office suite set up using my work email and a unique-to-Office password. But on the same computer, I have a free-to-nonprofit Office environment set up in my browser, for volunteer work I do, and that has separate login credentials, and that also works fine.

I've used the Shared Experience settings too, to try to fix this, but, not knowing WHICH account is being referred to, and having everything work fine anyway, confuses me and doesn't give me much impetus to "fix" a problem that doesn't affect me, except for not liking the messages.

Suggestions? I want things to keep working - as they are - but I also want the error messages to stop pestering me.

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Cannot link/add my Microsoft Account to Local Account

Hello Ken,

Im using Win10 Build 1607 with all latest update.

I also run all related troubleshooters:

• Windows Update
• Store Apps (says i have to login in my microsoft account but thats the problem, i can't)
• Microsoft Accounts

No Problem found. Also the suggestions from Microsoft didnt helped.

 

Microsoft Account sign in problem

Hello Sebastian,

Let's determine the cause of the issue. To get started, I'd like to get the following information:

• During when are you getting this error message?
• Is this your first time to encounter this issue? If so, did you make any changes to your account prior to this?

Meanwhile, I suggest that you follow these steps and check if this will help you in resolving the error message:

• Press Windows key + R and type services.msc.
• Right-click Microsoft Account Sign-in assistant and choose
  Properties.
• In Startup type, choose Automatic then click
  OK.

We're looking forward to your response.

 

"There is a problem with your Microsoft account" message

This is a tangly issue for me. Earlier this week, when I signed in to my work computer, there was a message saying:

It's a legitimate Microsoft message; you can find lots of pages online talking about it, but many are from Microsoft itself, with "copy/paste" one-size-fits-all ill-fitting "solutions."

I have not had a functionality problem with the computer, or with my copy of Office, this week. All work fine. So I'm inclined to ignore the error, except I hate having unresolved error messages.

The "tangle" I refer to in the issue is that the message doesn't even mention WHICH "Microsoft account" this pertains to. I have my Office suite set up using my work email and a unique-to-Office password. But on the same computer, I have a free-to-nonprofit Office environment set up in my browser, for volunteer work I do, and that has separate login credentials, and that also works fine.

I've used the Shared Experience settings too, to try to fix this, but, not knowing WHICH account is being referred to, and having everything work fine anyway, confuses me and doesn't give me much impetus to "fix" a problem that doesn't affect me, except for not liking the messages.

Suggestions? I want things to keep working - as they are - but I also want the error messages to stop pestering me.