Log in to Windows 10 requires a Microsoft account — here's how to make sure you're all set up Read on to learn how to:. find out if you already have a Microsoft account. set up a Microsoft account if you don’t have one. link your computer to your Microsoft account How to check if you have a Microsoft account If you’re using a computer that’s running Windows 10 as its operating system, you’ll need a Microsoft account to log in. If you have an existing account with Outlook.com, Hotmail, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Xbox or Windows, good news — the email address and password that you use to access that account will also work as your Microsoft account. Simply input those same details to log in to Windows 10.
If you don’t have an account with any of the above services, then you don’t currently have a Microsoft account. You’ll need to set one up in order to log in to Windows 10.
Microsoft Office. Everyone is using Outlook 2016 on Windows 10, Office 365 (hybrid setup with all user boxes in the cloud). Yesterday I've had everyone delete their stored Windows 10 credentials. This looked like it solved it for a few hours, but today impacted users report the same behaviour. All are on the same hardware.
Follow the below steps to get going. How to set up a Microsoft account. First, go to and click on ‘Create one!’ to start the process. Fill in your first name and surname. The name that you use here will be displayed across all the Microsoft services you use and will be visible to friends, family, colleagues and other Microsoft users. Enter the email address you’d like, e.g.
Firstnamelastname and choose from the drop down list whether you’d like it to end with @outlook.com or @hotmail.com. Outlook will now check to see if that unique email address is available. If it’s already taken, it will suggest some available email addresses or you can try something different until you find an acceptable email address you’re happy with. Once you’ve chosen your email address, you need to set up a password. Microsoft requires your password to be at least 8 characters long with at least two out of lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols.
Your Microsoft account password is case sensitive, so make sure you take note of where you’ve used capital and lower case letters. Fill out your country/region, date of birth and gender.
Now add either your telephone number, an alternative email address or both. If you have a problem with your Microsoft account, Outlook will use these contact details to verify your identity to protect your account. Finally, type in the random characters displayed at the bottom of the screen. There is an audio option if you prefer.
Choose whether you want to opt in to promotional emails from Microsoft and then click on ‘Create account’ to finish setting up. Outlook will now create your email inbox. Select your preferred language and time zone. (The UK is in UTC+00:00) and click on save. You now have a Microsoft account. How to link your computer to your Microsoft account. Click on the Start button and then go to Settings Accounts Your account.
Select ‘Sign in with a Microsoft account instead,’ input your Microsoft account password and click ‘next’. It might take the wizard a moment to prepare the set up, but when it’s ready, enter your Microsoft account email address and password, then click ‘next.’.
You may need to verify your identity with a confirmation code sent to the email address or phone number you provided earlier when you set up your Microsoft account, so have your phone or email account to hand. If they’re not available, select ‘I can’t do this right now’ and return to the set up wizard when you’re ready.
Once you’ve inputted the code, click on ‘next.’. Finally, click on ‘switch’ to finish the set up. Windows 10 will set up your new Microsoft account. This will not affect your files. In summary We've now completed the process of setting up a Microsoft account. The next time you sign in to Windows 10, use your Microsoft account name and password to log in.
Your Microsoft account will synchronise all the machines connected to that account, so look out for the changes next time you log in to a different device. Now, why not explore some wider features of Windows 10?
Somewhere since the end of autumn (November 2017), many users began to complain that Outlook 2016 constantly requests for the user’s credentials (the username and password) during its operation. After starting Outlook successfully connects to the Exchange server (or the mailbox on Office 365 / Exchange online), and after a few minutes of normal work, a window appears for entering the user name and password. The user enters the password and presses OK, but the window with the prompt to enter the password appears again. By clicking the “Cancel” button, the user can continue to work with Outlook, but after a while the window with the password request pops up again. The clients OSs are different: there are both Windows 7 and Windows 10 workstation. We tried to recreate the mail profile, to re-install Office – it doesn’t help, Outlook with some periodicity still requires the user to enter a password. I think the problem with some Windows or Office security update, but for the last 4 months we have installed a lot of new Microsoft updates.
Do I really have to delete all the updates one by one until I find a problem update? Have you encountered such a problem?
Answer Let’s take a look at some typical situations in which Outlook can ask the user to re-enter the password. To directly access Credential Manager, run the command: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr “Always Prompt for Credentials” Option in Outlook Open Outlook Account Settings (File - Account Settings - Account Settings), double click on your Exchange account.
Go to More settings - select Security tab. In the User identification section clear the checkbox Always prompt for credentials. Outlook Anywhere and NTLM authentication If Outlook is configured to access the Exchange mailbox using, verify that NTLM authentication is used for authentication. At the same time, you need to check the authentication type used for the Exchange site on the IIS. If the computer with a problem Outlook is not joined to the domain, then on the contrary, you should try switching from NTLM authentication to Basic. Disable Autodiscover Endpoint Check for Office 365 In addition, there is information that in one of the latest updates for Outlook 2016, mandatory checking of the connection point to the Office 365 was enabled. You can verify this by using the utilities Fiddler or TCPView, keeping track of the attempts to connect to the servers autodiscover-s.outlook.com and outlook.office365.com.
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To disable this check, go to the registry key HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Microsoft Office 16.0 Outlook AutoDiscover and create a DWORD parameter named ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint and value 1. Restart Outlook.
The ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint registry parameter is applicable to Outlook 2016 version 16.0.6741.2017 and higher (this parameter is additional to the list of parameters that determine the types of checks when Outlook starts: see an article ). You can make changes to the registry with the following command: reg add HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Microsoft Office x.0 Outlook AutoDiscover /t REGDWORD /v ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint /d 1 Or, using the PowerShell cmdlet: Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU: Software Microsoft Office 16.0 Outlook AutoDiscover' -Name 'ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint' -Value 1 -Type DWORD –Force Recreate Your Outlook Profile If all of these methods above did not help you get rid of the problem, delete and recreate your Outlook profile. Check Your Antivirus Perhaps the problem is caused by your antivirus or firewall software. Try to temporarily disable it and check whether Outlook continues to prompts a password Bad network connection A bad network connection to the Exchange server and / or a domain controller can also be a source of re-requesting the password. Also check the computer time, it should differ from the time domain for no more than 5 minutes. If more, check the NTP time synchronization scheme in your domain.