The part I think I'm trying to fix is converting it back to a local account. I can't figure out how. I'm only seeing the option to unlink it in "Your email and accounts" but that isn't doing the trick :/
Regards, Freddy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J Harris Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2015 4:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 10 - Removing MS account linked to built-in local Administrator account >From my testing of Windows 10 I ended up doing the following but I don't know >if this will help in your case or not: Created alternative account using either [cid:[email protected]] Or [cid:[email protected]] I then went in and changed the local Admin account to a LOCAL account not connected to Microsoft. Once done you will NOT want to put any further Microsoft accounts on the machine unless you create a separate local account for it then convert it to a Microsoft account. I would suggest, but did not test this, the account would need to be a non-admin account. I hope this is of some help, Jon From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Freddy Grande Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:28 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows 10 - Removing MS account linked to built-in local Administrator account Hoping someone here knows the answer or is a wizard and can help... I haven't been able to find a solution nor the correct search terms to help yet. System: Windows 10 Pro on domain running on Surface Book. Long story short I linked the local administrator (built-in) account to a Microsoft Account in order to briefly enable Insider Preview builds (there were no other local administrator accounts - all admin work is performed by elevating to a domain account with local admin privileges) and now I can't seem to remove the linked account. After doing this I noticed it took over the local account (local password was set to MS account when logging on and MS account picture and name showed up on logon screen) and I wanted to revert the change. I was unable to unlink or delete the account and the only thing that I could do was delete the user profile (not the account). I'm not sure if this worsened the issue or if it was already this bad but it didn't help and I'm nowhere closer to removing the linked account. It wouldn't worry me so much, however, it's annoying on the log on screen (yes I can remove this with local policies) but now there's an extra Microsoft account field on UAC elevation prompts that annoyingly a) exists and b) pushes down the virtual smart card field for my admin account requiring scrolling - painful when using the device with no keyboard and the OSK takes up space. I can't delete the local account the MS account is linked to because it's a built-in account and Windows won't let you. I can't change the password for the built-in administrator account because Windows claims it's not authoritative over it (so it's a MS account then?) but I can't delete the MS account either, possibly for the same reason??? See attachments for details, note I created a new account to be able to test with a true local admin (.\admin): * Accounts: Modern Settings app from where you're supposed to be able to remove MS accounts (kind of proves that it's still just a linked local account) * Computer Management_01: shows the Administrator (built-in) account with a modified Full Name (I can edit this but that's about it) * Computer Management_02: error when trying to change the password for above account * User Accounts_01: User Accounts dialog that shows the 'linked' account as a MicrosoftAccount account, however, can't be deleted or modified * User Accounts_02: Attempting to remove above account * User Accounts_03: Error when removing account * Windows Security_01: new Microsoft account field (from run as different user command) * Windows Security_02: as above but showing how crowded it is already during elevation prompt (from run as administrator command - can't screenshot as it's displayed in secure desktop) I really really don't want to format and start afresh, I've already gotten all the software installed and configured and working fine at work as well as migrated all my data onto it from both my previous Surface Pro 2 and my desktop computer (this machine is replacing both). Sigh... Regards, Freddy
