Hi, You'll get a toast notification that asks you to take a look at your MSA info, then change the email associated with it. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Daniel MacDonald Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:08 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] What will happen if you change your Microsoft account that's good to know. I would assume then, if you are a Windows Insider then you wouldn't receive Insider builds if you change your Microsoft Account? Daniel On 3/23/17, James Flusche <pinhead2...@outlook.com> wrote: > Good afternoon Jaws Users list. > If you change your Microsoft account, you will lose your office 365 > subscription. You will have to buy it again for your new account. For > example: I decided to make my computer and accounts more organized. I > was using two Microsoft accounts on my computer. Instead, I decided to > make a new Microsoft account, I made it an administrator account. > Warning: after making this new Microsoft account, I deleted the other > accounts. I chose to keep a copy of the old user folders. What > happened after I restarted my computer was the following. No office > 365, I went to the Microsoft store and purchased a yearly subscription > to Office 365 this time instead of the month to month subscription for > office 365. Now this is important, when my computer restarted, I had a > brand-new desktop, which included an icon for my old user folders. So, > I had to totally customize all my Windows 10 settings again, and set > up my computer just like a new install of windows 10. With one > exception, I could copy and paste all my old user folders into the new > user folders. Also, I had nothing in my new OneDrive folders. So, I > set up OneDrive, I copied and pasted my stuff from the old OneDrive > folder into the new one. I had to sink my chosen folders to OneDrive, > I had to share a OneDrive link again with my two groups. I had to > download many apps I wanted to use. I had to set some programs back up > again. But for the most part, that was not too hard to do. The one > challenging item for me was to set up Outlook 2016 again from scratch. > No email accounts, no contacts either. The outlook.com account was > easy to do, but the Yahoo Imap account was a pain in the butt to set > up. I kept getting certificate errors. Turns out one of the server > incoming numbers was wrong, and I had a period at the end of one of > the server details. So to make a long story short, I spent several > days setting up my computer after creating a new Microsoft account, > and I had to buy the office 365 subscription again. But all and all, > Jaws is working much better now. I have everything reset to the way I > had things customized on my > W-10 computer before I made the change of my Microsoft account. So in > my opinion, I am happy that I made this change to my Microsoft account. > Everything is working better for me including Jaws. I just wanted you > all to be aware of changing your Microsoft account if you are using an > office 365 subscription. I also called Microsoft and cancelled my old > Office 365 subscription. Just wanted to let you all know what will > happen if you switch Microsoft accounts. Smiles. > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
