Windows 10 Requirement for Microsoft Account

I am trying Windows 10 Technical Preview... I tried to use skype and it requires a Microsoft account. My options appear to be remove windows 10 or change skype.

You can install Skype desktop version and login with any account.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12162/how-do-i-get-the-desktop-version-of-skype-windows-8-or-abov...

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Deployment of Windows 8 and Microsoft account

Hi,
I have a situation where I am deploying Windows 8.1 to desktops connected to a 2008 R2 domain
Scenario:
* Each client PC is running Windows 8.1
* Each client PC signs on to internal domain controller ([email protected])
* Each user account has an office 365 sign on which is syncronised with active directory (Microsoft organisational account)
It would now appear that each user requires a microsoft / live account to benefit from apps, windows store etc..
Does anyone know of a procedure where the organisational account for office 365 can be used for this (which i dont think is possible) or perhaps any way of bulk registering my office 365 users for a microsoft/live account and syncronise the passwords.
Anyone come across this issue before?
**Mods, if i have put this in the wrong category, please feel free to move it**
Thanks,
M
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Having similar issues/concerns to yourself, I have been researching for a solution. While I have not found any real solution, there are two work-arounds that I am contemplating. Please let me know if either of these could help yourself, or if you have found
better or improved solutions.
Process 1.
1) For each Office 365 account, also create a Microsoft Account
2) Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\OneDrive\"Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" to "Enabled", to ensure that the Microsoft Account's OneDrive is disabled so the user does not accidental store company data to the
Microsoft Account's OneDrive but only has access to the Office 365's OneDrive for business.
3) When a user leaves, delete their Office 365 account and then also delete their Microsoft Account (see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/account-close-account). Remember to transfer any required company data from their Office 365 OneDrive account
to the corporate Team Sites before deleting their Office 365 account.
or
Process 2.
1) You can totally disable the use of Microsoft Accounts and the Windows Store, while still allowing users to make used of already installed Windows Store Apps.
2) If you have a Windows AD server you can use side-loading to install apps. Or you could install the apps before disabling Windows Store.
3) You can still enable the automatic updating of Windows Store Apps, even when the Windows Store is disabled.
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\"Accounts: Block Microsoft accounts" to "Users can't add or log on with Microsoft accounts"
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Internet Communications Management\Internet Communications settings\"Turn off access to the Store" to "Disabled"
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\App runtime\"Allow Microsoft accounts to be optional" to "Enabled" (NB: allows the use of Windows Store apps even when the use of a Microsoft Account is disabled)
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Store\"Turn off the Store application" to "Enabled"
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Store\"Turn off Automatic Download and Install of updates" to "Enabled"
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Store\"Turn off Automatic Download of updates on Win8 machines" to "Enabled"
If you want to disable Syncing of data, see;
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Sync your settings\"Do not sync passwords"
I am very interested to learn if there are more Group Policies that could be, or should be, used to manage Microsoft Accounts and the Windows Store.

[Microsoft Store][Profile][Billing] How Do I Change Country/Residence for Microsoft Account? Editing Your Microsoft Account Profile for Microsoft Store. SOLVED: Change Home Location

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...

I cannot purchase apps on my Dell Venue 11 pro tablet. Question is Why? Password and e-mail account are not accepted for Microsoft account.Can you advise me what to do?

Please help me to establish microsoft account in order to purchase apps from Window Store.

Start here
https://signup.live.com
Fill in your credentials and follow instructions.
If you have more problems, refer to public forum here
answers.microsoft.com
Regards
Milos

Certificate Requirement for Microsoft RDS 2012

Hi All,
I planning to deploy RDS VDI and remote app service, Please help me to understand the certificate
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My servers are in .local
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RD Connection Broker-----RDSCB.Domain.LOCAL
RD Web Access------------RDSWEBSVR.Domain.LOCAL
RD Session Host-----------RDSSHSVR.Domain.LOCAL
RD Visualization Host-------RDSVHSVR.Domain.LOCAL
RD Gateway Server -------RDGWSVR.Domain.LOCAL
What kind of Certificate do i required to launch Desktop and RemoteApp without any error.

Hi,
1. I would recommend a wildcard certificate (*.domain.net) purchased from a trusted public authority such as GoDaddy, VeriSign, Thawte, etc. This wildcard certificate would be used for all RDS purposes.
2. On the internal network you will need to create a DNS zone for domain.net with A records pointing to the private ip addresses, similar to the following:
rdsvdi.domain.net --> private ip address of your RD Web server
rdscb.domain.net --> private ip address of your RD Connection Broker
rdsgwsvr.domain.net --> private ip address of your RD Gateway server (this is only needed if you want to use RDG for internal users)
3. On the Internet you will need DNS records similar to the following:
rdsvdi.domain.net --> public ip address for your RD Web server
rdgwsvr.domain.net --> public ip address for your RD Gateway server
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http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Change-published-FQDN-for-2a029b80
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Information required for Microsoft Azure cloud hosting

I am looking for hosting my application on Azure cloud server and would like to inform you that my application is in ASP.NET 3.5 with database on SQL Server 2008 R2.
Before we proceed further with Microsoft Azure cloud hosting, I would like to clarify some of my below mentioned queries:
Hosting:
What are the plans of hosting along with pricing and server configuration.
How many applications we can host.
How much space we will get.
Can we deploy and run some exe, which we developed for sending email.
Currently we are using InProc session. What modification will be required by the application.
Can we point our DNS to the application we host.
We do development on our On-Premise environment, do we also get any staging/testing server along with production server.
Does the usage of application on staging server is chargeable.
How many instances we will be getting for one application
Does environment automatically increase or decreases the instances in use as per increase or decrease in load.
SQL Azure:
Which version of SQL Server we will get.
Does SQL Azure is compatible with all the features and datatypes of SQL Server 2008 R2? If not then please let us know features and datatypes which are not supported by SQL Azure.
What all SQL Server version’s database can be restored on SQL Azure.
What will be the database size.
Will the database will be in the same datacenter where our application reside.
How many database we can create
How we can take database backup, is there any control panel for that.
How we can schedule database backups
Can we restore our On-Premise database with the database bakup taken from SQL Azure.
Can we connect database from our local machine with “SQL Server Management Studio”.

Hi SanVerma,
Thanks for your posting!
From your description, I think firstly you need confirm which one host service could meet your target. I suggest you could refer to this page about Azure Websites, Cloud Services, and Virtual Machines comparison:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/choose-web-site-cloud-service-vm/
The above link could answer your hosting questions 1,2,4.
Hosting:
>>3.How much space we will get.
It depends on your size:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn197896.aspx
>>5.
Currently we are using InProc session. What modification will be required by the application.
You need use the Azure cache service or SQL Azure storage to store your session data, please see those blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cie/archive/2013/05/17/session-state-management-in-windows-azure-web-roles.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-dotnet-session-state-caching/
>>6
Can we point our DNS to the application we host.
If you use Azure VM to host your application, you could use Azure Virtual Network to deploy your DNS server, Please see this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj156088.aspx
>>
We do development on our On-Premise environment, do we also get any staging/testing server along with production server.
>>
Does the usage of application on staging server is chargeable.
Yes, you can do this. If you use Azure cloud service stage/production environment, You could be charged. If you use single VM to host your production and staging project, you could be charged the single VM.
>> How many instances we will be getting for one application
It depends on your requirement, If the quota is not enough, you could contact the Azure support to increase the quota. >>Does environment automatically increase or decreases the instances in use as per increase or decrease in load.
Azure platform support the AutoScale. You can set the feature using code or portal.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-autoscaling-application-block/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680945(v=pandp.50).aspx
SQL Azure:
>> 1.Which version of SQL Server we will get.
Firstly, you need clarify the SQL Azure and sql server. SQL Azure is a data as a service. SQL server in VM is a VM which is installed sql server. If you wants to use SQL Server, I suggest you could refer to this pricing page:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines
>>    2.
Does SQL Azure is compatible with all the features and datatypes of SQL Server 2008 R2? If not then please let us know features and datatypes which are not supported by SQL Azure.
>> 3.What all SQL Server version’s database can be restored on SQL Azure.
>>4.What will be the database size.
I recommend you refer to those post and blog about above 3 questions:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/996.comparison-of-sql-server-with-azure-sql-database.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3235164/what-is-the-difference-between-sql-azure-and-sql-server-2008
>>   5
Will the database will be in the same datacenter where our application reside.
You could select the region when you create DB/VM.
>>
How many database we can create
Please see this page about sql azure limits:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee336245.aspx
>>7,8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj650016.aspx
>>9Yes, you can use the Import and export database feature:
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>>10
Yes.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-manage-azure-ssms/
About how to use SQL Azure, you could refer to this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee336282.aspx
Hope it helps you.
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Is there a min PC Windows requirement for ITunes Match?

Apart from having the latest version of iTunes downloaded on a PC is there a minimum WIndows software requirement?
I'm planning on importing Audio CDs onto my iTunes account using my office PC and then setting up iTunes Match to get the Library to all my personal OS devices.
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Hi,
Delete play count as suggested but do not select update iTunes Match.
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Windows requirements for SAP ECC6 EhP7

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Windows 8.1 Firewall + Microsoft Account Logon

Hi,
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Hyper-V 2012 R2 Remote Management with Windows 8.1 using Microsoft Account (Workgroup)

Hello,
I've set up a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server and tried to manage it from a Windows 8.1 with a Microsoft Account. Everything is in the same workgroup. After many searches, the only way is set up the server for remote access, install RSAT and log on with an Administrator
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I have not fully tried this myself but I know this:
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This also requires a Full install of Server and is not possible on the free Hyper-V Server SKU.
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