[AccessD] Inventory Database

[James Button]

Hi there,  (again)

Considering the Microsoft account 
AFAIK  there are several separate uses of the account

You can register a credit card (and later deregister it) to purchase 'stuff'
from Microsoft 
And/or to pay for a software app rental

You can register an account to get 5GB of Onedrive cloud storage

And have an email id that you use for outlook.com

You can have your windows 10 (the free upgrade one) licence registered to you
rather than to the hardware 
So basically changed the OEM to a retail type transferrable ownership -  

You can have your bitlocker drive access-code remembered as part of the account
data

With an account you can get chat support  much more easily than without 

If you set your PC id to link to the account you can have better checking of
access to facilities such as the online office and Onedrive etc.

If, when you login to your id on the PC you do not give a valid password for the
account at Microsoft the system will not initiate Onedrive syncing etc. at
startup

You can logon with that account and password and get access to whatever parts of
the PC data you have set to be accessible via the web - providing the PC is
powered up and logged-in, or can be logged into remotely.

I have logged into my PC while there was no web connection and it behaved as it
normally does, just no cloud based access - OK I don't use bitlocker 

So - I do not see that there is any problem having a login that goes to the MS
systems and uses access authority associated with the account.
If you don't want that just don't plugin the web access hub at login time.
 
And - you can turn off the process that uses the email id to login.   


Then again - that does assume that the system is working OK  !

 
JimB

From: Tips, tools, and talk for Windows Home, SO/HO users
<WIN-HOME at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM> On Behalf Of Richard King
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:50 PM

Hi Randy,

This is the second time this month that I have been confronted with this 
hassle!
Now that I have a bit more knowledge, I'll have another go at the first 
event (see discussion +/-Jan 10).

Regards,

Richard.be

Le 22-01-19 à 22:24, Baker, Randal L CIV PSNS&IMF, Code 2310.1 a écrit :
> I have never set up Win10 with the MS account.
>
> MS is pretty insistent during the install, but just hold out and don't give an
account.  Eventually, you can install local.  I noticed that during my last
install on my new refurb laptop, it asked multiple times to use an account or
setup a new account before letting me just handle it locally.
>
> .....And now....you've provided me the proof why I don't install with the
online account.
>
> Randy
>
> From: Tips, tools, and talk for Windows Home, SO/HO users
<WIN-HOME at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM> On Behalf Of Richard King
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:48 AM
>
>
>   From today, my own PC opens with a local account, not the MS account.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.be
>