

“When you try to sign in to a Microsoft app or website with an email address that is associated with two accounts, we ask you which account you want to use. Microsoft’s instructions for people using their business Office 365 email address for both Microsoft work and personal accounts I’m going to repeat the instructions from Microsoft with one adjustment that I’ll describe below.

It published a page of instructions about how to rename your personal account. Microsoft is not completely blind to this problem. If you’re lucky you can do it without too much disruption by “renaming” your personal Microsoft account. My advice, then, if you’re using the same email address for both Microsoft work and personal accounts: get an email address and use it as your Microsoft personal account.

Trying to use OneDrive will make you feel weak and disoriented – roughly like being dehydrated but not as much fun. When you use the same email address to log into Microsoft’s overlapping personal and business services, it is almost impossible to understand where you are in the maze. For example, if you see your work email address when you log into your computer, it might be a personal Microsoft account as well as a business Office 365 account.

