For instance, one could have gone to Fry’s Electronics, Best Buy, Circuit City, and other retail stores to buy physical copies of Microsoft Office, Sierra’s King’s Quest, WordPerfect, and Windows and install onto one or more computers (as per the license agreement) without the need for an email address.
There also were two M365 Groups that contained said accounts as members:īefore Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other companies tied their products and services to a single account, software used to be purchased without requiring an email address. Once logged in, I found several active Azure accounts I had likely created for my family members and proceeded to purge them from the tenant. A lengthy, secure recovery process ensued after which I gained access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center via the tenant. The M365 Data Protection support person could not give me any details about the M365 tenant for privacy and security concerns, and so I had asked him to help me retrieve the Global Administrator account. My personal domain was associated with a free Microsoft 365 Business subscription. customers.Īs it turned out, my domain indeed had a Microsoft 365 tenant associated with it. Perhaps my domain was associated with Azure and in turn was treated as a work organization? When the support engineer could not help, I reached out to Microsoft 365 Business Support instead at (800) 936-4900 for U.S. I remembered having previously signed up for an Azure trial account - somewhere between 5 to 10 years ago - to study the cloud service while I was still an IT Systems Engineer. Recently, I again dug some more into the long-running issue and decided to contact Microsoft Azure support. Since I had found workarounds to still allow me to use my email addresses with Microsoft Windows and other services, it was no longer a priority to pursue. I had given up for some time and thought that the issue arose after I had previously applied a Microsoft Extended Warranty for Business towards one of my personal Microsoft Surface Pro devices. Numerous contacts to Microsoft for support went nowhere over the years. “But I never associated my domain with a work or school Microsoft account,” I thought to myself. Use a personal email, such as Gmail or Yahoo!, or get a new Outlook email.” Attempting to do so would throw an ominous error message: “ You can’t sign up here with a work or school email address. ) could NOT be used as the first account added to a fresh installation of Windows 10 (or 11) or be granted an Office 365 subscription.
I had been running into this issue for a few years now where a domain I personally own (ie.
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