Windows 11 Home apparently forbids you to use a Microsoft Work or School accounts to log in. You can circumvent by creating an additional Microsoft Personal account using the same email, but this solution is confusing my non-advanced users to handle 2 MS accounts with same id, different passwords, different features on the same computer. How should I configure these PCs to provide simple log-in, simple access to Office 365 services, and simple access to email (through Google Workspace)?
More context : I'm volunteering to help a small non-profit organization with their IT set-up. About 20 users, not too much money. They have :
- a domain name,
- a free Google Workspace offer (for non-profit, all 20 users have their emails / chat / calendar / smartphones with this Workspace account)
- a few free licenses for Office 365 business (for non-profits, less than 10 licenses, created via a Microsoft Work or School account)
- a few old computers that I configured with ChromeOS Flex (works great with all Google Workspace accounts).
- 3 new decent donated computers with Windows 11 Home.
W11Home apparently forces creating Microsoft Personal accounts for my users to log in W11, + their Microsoft Work or School accounts to log into Office 365, + their Google Workspace accounts to access their emails. That's 3 accounts using the same id, 3 different passwords on the same computer, for users that are basically IT illiterate. The mix-up of a MS personal and MS Work/School account on the same computer is especially confusing for them (for instance, it means they have 2 different "onedrive" folders to save their work).
The solution I found so far is to create local accounts on the W11Home PC to log-in. Users still have 3 accounts with 3 passwords to handle, but at least it avoids the mix-up between MS Personal and MS Work/School onedrive.
Another solution might be to upgrade the 3 W11Home to W11Pro, but that involves additional costs.
[My first question in this community, hope it's in the right place and right format]
