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Signing in to windows 10 with work email account

I have been given an Office365 account for work, and will be using it on a laptop that is owned by me and currently set up for personal use.  I want to have two user login accounts, one personal and the second one using the work account.  To do this I seem to need to have a Microsoft account in the work email address, but Microsoft will not let me create one - the instruction is to use a personal or Outlook.com email address.  It looks like I am being directed towards "Access work or school" in Settings/Accounts, but this doesn't look like it will give me the complete separation of work and personal access that I am trying to create.

Does this mean I have to build a work-around using a third email address and then just configure Office/Outlook to the work account email once logged in using the third non-work email?

So the way it works is you can only have one Microsoft account logged in at a time attached to your windows account.
So can not have 2 Microsoft accounts logged in a the same time.
You could have 2 Microsoft accounts on the PC but you would have to switch between accounts, kind of a hassle.
I have 3 Microsoft accounts and what I have done is setup my personal as the main one so the one that is assigned to my local account.
I did this by going to start - settings - accounts and then adding my Personal Microsoft account to the login.
Then for my o365 and azure accounts I just add them in Windows Mail.

Does this make sense?

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Last updated April 11, 2024 Views 16,708 Applies to: