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Is keeping track of all my accounts 
So I've signed up to Azure, got access to various tenants, but not all tenants are shown on my profile because that depends on something(?) I'm not aware off.
I'm now looking into Power Apps and on the website I'm not logged in, so I click on "Create an account".
And then I think to myself "But I already have an account with Microsoft..." and I cancel the account creation and login instead and I'm instantly logged in.
After that I went to the Power BI website and I'm not logged in, so I login and I'm instantly logged in again.
But here's the best part, I go to "My account" on both the Power BI and Power Apps page and both pages take me to another website, but different ones, which both show me my profile, but very differently 
Not even talking about the drama that's personal account vs. business account on the same email address (in which I've had no say)
I'm currently working with Microsoft support to regain access to a lost Azure account and now I need to sign up for Azure with, again, this account, with which I already have access to various accounts, but whatever 
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It sounds like you need an additional Azure account to run a database that keeps track of all your other accounts. 
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It sounds like you need an additional Azure account to run a database that keeps track of all your other accounts.
And then another additional Azure account to keep track of their Azure database datasets. True story.
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They make it way too easy to allow things to get confused, and then get completely out of hand.
And then, if you're already logged into the browser when you visit an Azure page, that can add an extra layer of identities to sort out. My solution is to only visit Azure pages from machines (VMs) that are work-related and not used for anything else. If I have to visit an Azure page elsewhere, I try to use browser's private mode (so it doesn't remember previously used accounts), although that does mean having to manually provide login credentials more frequently.
It's a mess.
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I just looked in my password manager (C'YaPass, of course[^]) & I have 192 passwords / accounts.
Yes, as a dev we have more & it is absolutely painful.
But, also, every Computer/Phone/Device user has Password-Fatigue, of course. 
As devs it is even worse -- as you said especially with Work accounts versus Personal.
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raddevus wrote: I have 192 passwords / accounts
That you know off
There was this time that whenever you bought a product, especially games, you had to create an account to play.
Once in a while I receive a newsletter that I signed up for years ago, haven't heard from for 10 years and suddenly they're there again
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One of my first personal projects was an account/pw manager. Because, who else can you trust?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Sander Rossel wrote: personal account vs. business account on the same email address (in which I've had no say)
How does that even happen? I have a work email address, and a personal one. Work activity is only associated with the work address. Everything else is personal. I don't mix the two.
If your employer thinks they have the right to monitor your personal email account or social media, it's time to find another employer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah, my employer's a real d*ck
I'm self-employed though
It's not like that, Microsoft somehow differentiates between personal and business accounts, I don't know the difference between the two.
So, I've created some accounts for customers, like Azure and DevOps accounts, and in most cases Microsoft thinks they're personal accounts (I can't choose, Microsoft just does this).
However, for one client, I always have to login again, with the same email address, because it's a business account.
Probably because that client had an Office 365 with an Azure Active Directory sync enabled when I created the account.
It's really messed up, but at least it works now, except that I have to log in with the same email address sometimes even though I'm already logged in with that email address.
In the past, I've been locked out of accounts because I had to sign in as a business user, but when I signed in Microsoft decided I was a personal user and I couldn't fix or override that setting anywhere.
Microsoft really messed that one up and I know they've been trying to fix it in these past few years.
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I have multiple personal email addresses in part so I can keep accounts separated.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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Going to a site and being presented with the Login or Create New Account screen:
me: click-[create new account]
site: Enter email address
me: me@my.email
site: That email is already in use
me: click-[login]
site: Email address
me me@my.email
site: password
me: My_Password
site: Incorrect password
me: click-[forgot password]
site: Enter new password
me: My_Password
site: Password already used
me: takes Uber to mental asylum
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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That's how it be sometimes 
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BTDTGTTS!
The havoc wreaked by two MS accounts against one email address is unbelievable. I ended up with 2 because MS closed one without warning and when I queried this, created a new one against the same email address and then reactivated the old one. Took me something over two years to sufficiently detangle them to change the email against one so MS didn't keep selecting which one got used at random.
Who'd ever think that one person would ever want more than one account with a large organisation? Not MS, obviously!
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Don't forget the two-stage verification.
One service texted my work phone, another service texted my private phone.
And I have 6 different electronic keys on my key ring.
I feel like a prison guard.
Often I have to try 3 different keys before I get the correct one.
Ans it is all useless. Hackers run in and out of every system, while I am struggling to make it past the login page. (Not to mention the times the system throws me out because it has taken too long)
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A client of mine has now implemented 2FA, but because I rarely use their account, it means I have to accept it every time I need to access my own software... On all environments
Luckily, it's disabled for debugging purposes
No electronic keys yet though 
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so this! I have no less than 4 completely separate work accounts for managing the work that I do. It reallly sucks. all have separate passwords(fine) and separate MFA setups(fine - great). But all are used for just slightly different purposes. and I cannot remember which is which sometimes.
I end of have 4 different browsers open and only using one browser for each accounts Chrome for A, FireFox for B, Edge for C, Brave for D. It works but I still have to remember which one is which when logging into RDP sessions for specific work things and that gets really confusing really quick. Then I end up command line "whoami" and trying to figure out if that account is the one I need for what I am about to attempt.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Morning Paul, a couple of years ago you gave me a link to the original windows solitaire et al games - which I've lost - do you still have it ?
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I have the actual files if you can't find the link.
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Thanks Richard what's the best way to get them to me ?
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Send me a message via the Email link below and I can send you a zip.
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That's very kind of you Richard but I remembered I saved them to an external USB drive
Edit
couldn't see an email link
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 2-Mar-22 8:50am.
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That facility is Protector only - look at your home page and the "privileges" tab.
I think it got changed from "everybody" some years back.
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Make me a protector then 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Sorry - I'm right out of Tree-of-Life root ...
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I was waiting to see if anyone was a Niven fan!
Software Zen: delete this;
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