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Any aware of plans to extend the Skype app on Samsung TVs to support the use of a Microsoft account just like on every other platform?
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This is what Skype and RTX don't tell you (Exactly)
To use a skype subscription with this RTX Dualphone 4088 device you must first buy or activate the smallest Skype out credit. As suggested by Skype support above! Thank you
The little blue Skype card in the RTX Dualphone 4088 box supplies free credit, Hopefully you still have it and it's not the one you threw away ?
#1 Activate the free skype card credit or buy the smallest amount possible from skype
#2 Check your account to make sure it shows the credit amount
#3 Check the subscription in your account and make sure it's been "Delivered" and marked as "Active"
#4 If you're already signed in to your RTX Dualphone 4088 check the front screen which should show you the correct credit amount. If not, setup the device and sign-in to check it.
(Now the bit they don't explain very well)
If you call any number that is covered by your subscription ie United Kingdom you will not be charged or have the call deducted from your small skype credit.
Test it by dialing a friends number covered under your subscription and check the credit doesn't go down (See your skype account or RTX front screen)
This means that Skype has seen that the call is within your subscription and not charged you! Simple but not been made clear!
I would recommend both Skype and RTX come together and fix this small bit of missing information and not assume people will just figure it out, You may get a lot more customers if they knew this !
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Scenario
By default it will sign in with current Microsoft account, if a user accesses Microsoft website (www.live.com, www.bing.com, etc.) with Microsoft account on Windows 8.1. This article describes how to disable this default sigh-in behavior if you want to use
different Microsoft accounts every time.
Method
To disable this default sign-in behavior, we can deny current Microsoft Account read permission of MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll, please follow the following steps:
Run Command Prompt with elevated permissions.
Run the following command to take ownership of MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll:
takeown /f C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll
Run the following command to deny the read permission of the Microsoft:
icacls C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll /deny
[email protected]:r
Note: Please replace your current Microsoft Account with the example
[email protected]
Change the owner of this file back to TrustedInstaller:
Right-click MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll under
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\, choose Properties. Under
Security tab, click Advanced.
Click Change, in the box Enter the object name to select, type
NT Service\TrustedInstaller.
Click OK.
Note: This operation would take some hours to work.
Apply to:
Windows 8.1
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.Error: System cannot find the specified path
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Parashuram Singade www.distinctnotion.com -
I finally decided to convert some of my local accounts to Microsoft Accounts on my Windows 8.1 PCs. Big mistake to this point.
I have two PC's with the same Microsoft Account set up, neither PC can browse to the other or map a drive through browsing.
I'm not using a homegroup. My daughter has one setup on her laptop and desktop, and I don't want my PC's on her homegroup. Until Microsoft makes it possible to have 2 homegroups on the same subnet, this is not an option.
The local accounts on both PC's have no problem browsing, mapping, etc. I can connect to the other PC's just fine using local accounts, so I know physical connectivity isn't an issue, neither is my anti-virus or really anything else system wide on either
computer.
I just can't attach automatically using a Microsoft Account. I have to manually map a drive every logon/reboot.
I have also found that running a logon script doesn't work. The drives will not map automatically.
The Microsoft Account users can map a drive using "Connect using different credentials." However, the credentials don't hold across reboots.
I can manually (using either a Microsoft Account or a local account) map a drive using "net use" which then opens up all of my mapped drives and allows for browsing to the other PC. However, this doesn't work across reboots/logons either.
Entering credentials in the Credentials Manager (Whether I use the Microsoft Account credentials or one of the local user credentials) doesn't work across reboots either.
Yes, I have the same Microsoft Account setup on both PCs. I have tried giving them both Admin and Standard user rights on both PCs.
I have turned off UAC as recommended in some posts.
Again - This problem is ONLY related to MICROSOFT ACCOUNTS, not local accounts.
I have put a batch file on the desktop with a "net use" statement in it to connect as a work around, but this is very annoying and truly unacceptable. Is there anyway to make this work seamlessly without running a batch file or something else where
the password exists on the PC in clear text?
I can't find other posts asking this question - am I the only one who is trying to do this? What memo did I miss?
Thanks for any help!Hello Steve Hengen,
I apologize for the delay.
I have test in my own environment and can normally map the network driver when logon as Microsoft account.
Do you check the option Reconnect at logon?
If you use Connect using different credentials, do you check the option Remenber my credentials?
Please take a look at the following article about map a network drive.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-HK/windows-8/create-shortcut-to-map-network-drive
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support -
Is it possilbe to totally disable the use of Microsoft Accounts in Windows 8.x ?
The existence and need of "Microsoft Accounts" in Windows 8.x causes many issues for corporate IT management.
1) To access Windows 8.x Mail App, Calendar App, etc, OneDrive, Skype, to upgrade from Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1, and the Windows Store requires a Microsoft Account.
2) Not all users have or will want to have their own personal Microsoft Account
3) It is possible for the corporate IT department to create Microsoft Accounts for each of the company Users, but it is an extra burden and difficult to manage these accounts.
Potentially the simplest solution is to be able to totally disable the use of Microsoft Accounts in Windows 8.x, is this possible?Hello,
You have the choice of uninstalling the metro apps ou use the GPO to block the use of Microsoft account.
Please see the followings links:
Uninstall metro apps:
http://www.deploiementwindows.com/supprimer-les-applications-dans-windows-8-1/
GPO: Block Microsoft accounts
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj966262%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
http://4sysops.com/archives/control-windows-store-access-with-group-policy/
regards,
- Yannick Plavonil -
Does using a Microsoft account require an Internet connection to log in?
If I use a Microsoft account as my credentials, am I locked out if my PC has no Internet connection?
Hi,
In addition, for the first log in, we need to connect to the internet.
Regards,
Kate Li
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Hi Everyone,
Just seeing if anyone knows a fix for this, basically when I deploy Win 8.1 using SCCM 2012, the deployment is successful, joins to the domain during the task sequence.
My issue at the moment is that, at the login screen it's defaulted to sign-in with email address (microsoft account) below I can select Domain or Fingerprint
How do I change it so that it defaults to Domain sign-in, when I deploy Win 8.1 without Fingerprint software, it defaults to domain sign-in which I'm after.
Device is Lenovo ThinkPad x240 AL
Many thanks,
MaxHi,
According to your description, I'm not sure whether your system deployment is full successfully, if your system just had one User Account, you will doesn't have switch user option at login screen.
So, firstly, please check your computer user account after you login into system, make sure your domain user account has been created and enabled.
Scondly, try to use Switch User feature at Start Screen for test, make sure your system work properly. if not, you can try to use
netplwiz command to open User Account. In this interface, you can choose which user account as default user.
If you need further assistance on this particular issue or any other Windows related issue, let us know and we will be glad to assist you.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support -
Using ONE Microsoft account for more than 100 Windows devices
I developed an application for company customers and it is listed on the windows store now. I need to use only ONE Microsoft e-mail for so many devices for my users. How to log in on all the devices with the same e-mail instead of creating one for each
user and for each new user?
Ahmed Abd El-KarimWhen talking about the phone the maximum number of devices on a single account is 5. When it comes to Windows 8.1 on PCs and Tablets it's 88 but you can not use it on more than that.
If this is intended for company deployment you can do that using sideloading by either getting a sideloading key or joining the devices to a domain or using a company certificate for Windows Phones.
Deploying it via the Store is not a viable option there. -
Can sign in with Microsoft Account but can't sign in using Skype Name on the website or desktop app.
I can sign in using my microsoft account, but I can't sign in using my SKYPE namehow to solve this? and why this is happeneing?when i ask for password reset, it actually reseted my microsfot account password, not my skype password, gave me real hard time signing in to my email account thinking it was still with my old passwordplease i want my skype name back. I don't want to use my microsoft account to sign inany help from anbybody?
I followed the link, tried to reset my password by requesting forgot my password providing my email address the one is linked to that account, and said a link been emailed to my inbox. checked my inbox there was nothing in there, waited for hours, nothing in there, the next day I found an email with a link to reset your password, I clicked it, it says "sorry the link has expired" it seems to be a timed link. I don't know why it took too long to receive the email, I thought it should be instantaneously. but it didn't happen that way. so I didn't try another attempt till I ask for why it happened?
this is my update for today -
Login to Windows 8.1 VM using Microsoft Account
I created a Windows 8.1 VM from the gallery for MSDN subscribers.
It took me a while to figure out that I need hostname\username for login.
Now I added a new user using my Microsoft Account email address.
But I am not able to login to the VM using this MS Account.
Any ideas?Hi, Thomas, sorry for the inconvenience. You can follow the steps to sign in using Microsoft Account.
1. Open "Control Panel\System and Security" and click "System\Allow remote access".
2. Uncheck "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended)".
3. Connect to the VM from Microsoft Azure Portal again, download and save the RDP file. Edit the RDP file and replace "prompt for credentials:i:1" with "enablecredsspsupport:i:0".
4. Save the change and connect to the VM. You will be allowed to choose the sign-in account.
5. Once you successfully sign in using the Microsoft account, you can re-enable "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended)". Next time you can use "microsoftaccount\account email" as user
name in remote desktop dialog.
You can also take a look at FAQ in
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=398176 .
Thanks,
Bin -
Using different Office 365 Account on Windows 8.1 with Microsoft Account
Onedrive does not have any connection to Office 365. They are completely independent of one another.
Office 365 has no use of Microsoft Accounts (other than when sharing with people who are not in your tenant)I have a customer that has boughta new team member a laptop with Windows 8.1 on it.The customer uses a shared One Drive Account across all of the teams machines to share data between them.All the other machines are using windows 7 professional with the One Drive desktop app installed, allowing them to do that. On the windows 8.1 laptop though, they are forced to sign into the laptop with a the Microsoft account to access OneDrive on that machine, due to it being integrated with the OS. This however, has caused issues because the team member then has access to everything under that Microsoft account and not just access to the one drive which is all the other team members have access to. I haven't found a way around that but if you happen to know one, please let me know.Anyway, now the customer wants to add office 365 to the laptop using...
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Forum,
I have set up telnet on two computers on a non-domain network. I have a user account on both machines linked to the same Microsoft account. My user account isn't an administrator, but I have added my user as a member of the TelnetClients group on the server.
I can connect to the server, but it will not authenticate me. Only NTLM authentication is allowed. When I enable password authentication, it prompts me for my password, and I can successfully log in. I can also successfully log in when I use the
built-in Administrator account and give it the same strong password on both computers. Here is how I'm invoking telnet:
telnet {target} -l {remote username}
Has anyone gotten telnet working using a Microsoft Account, workgroup computers, and NTLM authentication only?
KeepMyIdentities, Your Key to Password Security. Available now on the Windows Store: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/keepmyidentities/61a9f340-97ac-4666-beab-39f9246cb6faHi,
Please make sure that your Telnet client supports the same authentication types as the Telnet server to which you are connecting, you can view this link to configure the authentication method
Configure How the Client Authenticates to a Telnet Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732082(v=ws.10).aspx
Error Message: Telnet Server allows NTLM authentication only
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731891(v=ws.10).aspx
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support -
Microsoft account sign in option is missing
hello
there has been 3 days now that I can't logon to skype using my microsoft account.
Out of the blue the landing page/window of skype has been changed to the old one, and there is no microsoft account option in there.
I attach a screen shot also.
Any ideas would be more than welcome.
thanks
Attachments:
signin.jpg 36 KBTry this:
Go to Windows Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click on Command Prompt, select 'Run as administrator'.
The Command Prompt window should show:
C:\Windows\System32>
If this is not the case, then in the Command Prompt type: cd c:\windows\system32 and press Enter.
Type this and then press Enter:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
Next type this and press Enter:
regsvr32 jscript9.dll
After each Enter you should receive a message saying that DllRegisterServer in XXX.dll succeeded.
Reboot your computer.
Make now the test showing if your Internet Explorer can execute JavaScript.
Open in your Internet Explorer (no other browser but only IE) this page:
http://www.mistered.us/test/alert.shtml
Click on the “Simply Click This Button” button and watch the response. -
Hello,
I am experiencing problems with using my Microsoft Account for billing and purchasing apps in Windows store.
I am using my old WLID that I've created several years ago, and I have obsolete information including my country residence there. Now when I go to
https://billing.microsoft.com, I see that I have 2 profiles:
Personal profile: US
Business profile: Russia.
Now the problem is that I want my personal profile be changed to Russia as well. Having US in the profile makes it impossible to make purchases from Microsoft Store because Store does not allow for changing country when making purchases via PayPal.
Currently I have this information:
I need the Country/Residence information to be changed to Russia. How do I do that?
I am stuck.
How do I change country for my Microsoft Account?
If it's not possible, would I be able to continue using my Microsoft Account with old residence/country information while making purchases through a new Microsoft account where I have specified my current residence?
Or is it the same as with Windows Phone 7:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2692008
If yes, do I understand that I have to start all my 'virtual living' from scratch to use Microsoft Store? In other words, do I have to sign-in into Windows 8 with a new Microsoft Account that will have Russia specified as a Country/Region to purchase apps
from Microsoft Store?
If yes, can I use this new account only for purchasing apps while continuing to use my old account or all purchased apps are strictly tied to this new Microsoft Account I will use for purchasing?
Thank you.
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given...Hello,
Thanks to
this post @ Microsoft Answers, I was able to make Microsoft Store use correct information of my current country residence.
//The drawback in my case was that I lost the possibility to pay with Paypal, although Paypal supports payments in Russia, and, most importantly, I lost access to US marketplace, all comments/reviews are now in Russian. What a bummer! Honestly, I'd
like to have access to US store... Seems like the only workaround it to switch Home location for the time I purchase an app and change back when the app is purchased.
To change the Country/region data used for Payment and Billing in Microsoft Store,
Press WindowsKey+W to show Start screen and focus on searching in
Settings.
Type 'region' (without quotes) and open Region dialog box when found.
In the Region dialog switch to Location tab and change the country of choice in the
Home location drop-down list.
Click OK to apply changes and make them effective.
Open Store and press WindowsKey+I to show settings charms then choose
Your account.
In the Your account screen click Add payment method to configure your payment settings that will be used for purchasing apps from Windows Store.
Notice Country/region value has changed.
This country will be specified in Country/residence within Payment and Billing in Microsoft Store app.
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given... -
Skype, Messenger, and your Microsoft Account
I have posted this on the Microsoft forum too but think it's pretty relevant here.
So...
I have Windows Phone 8.1, my partner has WP8.1, she is my contact through her Microsoft account which she also signed into Skype with. We attempted to use the feature of going to a Skype video call from a standard phone call and the Skype button is greyed out...
I then notice she does not have any Skype details in her profile on my phone - only email (her Microsoft account) (which is also her Skype account). So I search for her using her Microsoft email address in Skype and she appears as a non-contact who I have to send a request to!
So now I have her twice in Skype; Once for Skype and once for Messenger!! I tried linking her accounts in her profile on my phone - which then shows her as one contact at outlook.com too - who I can Messenger chat with AND start a Skype call at outlook.com!!
I have repeated this with a friend who was also previously a long time Messenger user that has downgraded to Skype.
None of this was previously an issue as we all still used Messenger and could chat with the now GREATLY missed built in Messenger chat on Windows Phone, but now this has been dropped we are forced to use the depressingly slow and awfully clunky Skype app(s). This is what has brought the cross-app disconnect to light for us.
Why do we now have 2 accounts using the exact same email address? This REALLY needs fixing ASAP.Hello,
Thanks to
this post @ Microsoft Answers, I was able to make Microsoft Store use correct information of my current country residence.
//The drawback in my case was that I lost the possibility to pay with Paypal, although Paypal supports payments in Russia, and, most importantly, I lost access to US marketplace, all comments/reviews are now in Russian. What a bummer! Honestly, I'd
like to have access to US store... Seems like the only workaround it to switch Home location for the time I purchase an app and change back when the app is purchased.
To change the Country/region data used for Payment and Billing in Microsoft Store,
Press WindowsKey+W to show Start screen and focus on searching in
Settings.
Type 'region' (without quotes) and open Region dialog box when found.
In the Region dialog switch to Location tab and change the country of choice in the
Home location drop-down list.
Click OK to apply changes and make them effective.
Open Store and press WindowsKey+I to show settings charms then choose
Your account.
In the Your account screen click Add payment method to configure your payment settings that will be used for purchasing apps from Windows Store.
Notice Country/region value has changed.
This country will be specified in Country/residence within Payment and Billing in Microsoft Store app.
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given... -
Office 365 & Microsoft Account directory merge
The Azure account is managed and run by a Microsoft Account user. The same user has a Office 365 subscription so it has an work/organization account as well. Because the Microsoft sign-in pages are confused and messed up if a user needs to use different
accounts for different services (for example, when the user tries to go to portal.azure.com, it is sometimes automatically logged in using the Office 365 account which naturally does not work in Azure), we are thinking of merging these two directories
under one account. Based on the following articles it should be possible:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn629581.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn629580.aspx
However, some crucial information are missing:
It is possible to rollback the merge (decouple/untrust the two directories) later on? How?
Based on
http://blogs.windows.com/business/2014/11/07/windows-10-manageability-choices/ the Windows 10 will (finally) support Azure AD accounts. Will it work flawlessly or this merge will make some issues (currently, we are using Microsoft Account to sign-in
to Windows 8.1) or lost functionality (for example, user will need to choose whether to log-in with Microsoft Account and live without Azure AD dependent functionality like auto-login to Office 365 apps/services or vice versa)?
Are there anything else we should be aware of?Hi,
Thanks for your post.
It is possible to integrate Windows Azure account with an Office 365 account and here are the steps you must follow:
Logon to the Windows Azure Portal
https://manage.windowsazure.com.
Click on Application Services | Active Directory | Directory | Custom Create.
Change the Directory dropdown from the default
Create new directory to Use existing directory
and click the Check box.
Next you are logged out of the Windows Azure administrative account and you are redirected to the Windows Azure Active Directory logon.
Logon with a Global Administrator account from the Office 365 tenant that you would like to integrate.
After sign in you are prompted to add the Windows Azure administrator account as a global administrator for the Office 365 Tenant directory, click on
Continue.
Logout of the Office 365 global administrator account and then logon to
https://manage.windowsazure.com with your global administrator account.
I did not find any MS article about rollback the merge.
For the Account related issue, i think you may ask Azure support:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
Regards.
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