An organization account is like a Microsoft-hosted business account that is attached to a subscription service your company pays for. If you are a business user, your company provides you with a user account to login to a computer and access company resources. This is typically only Office 365 or Azure. On the other hand, an Organization account (called Work or school account above) is for business / company focused services. Way back when this used to be the account for Hotmail, and was also called Passport which has all evolved now into a Microsoft account. It is denoted by the Microsoft 4 color flag icon. A Microsoft account is for personal / consumer services like OneNote and Office online, OneDrive, etc. What’s the difference? The difference is which services they are used for which is loosely indicated by the description in the above screenshot. Not all Microsoft services allow you to login from both, but if so you will typically see a login prompt first just for your email address so Microsoft can determine what type of account your email address belongs to:Īfter you type your email address, if it finds a match for both types you choose which type you want to login with:
When you login to any Microsoft service (Office 365, Azure, Xbox Live, Xbox Music,, , Windows Phone, Sway, etc.), you are using one of two account types: So that explains Azure, but what’s the difference between an organization account and Live ID? Accounts – Organization vs.
Credits for Microsoft Azure also comes as a benefit to Microsoft competency partners or users with an MSDN subscription. You can find out more on the various services and relevant pricing along with a handy calculator on the pricing page. You’re billed by month which varies by the type of the service (server hardware, drive size, VM size level, etc).
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform for hosting various services including, websites, virtual networks and machines, to highly available SQL database services. To understand what we’re doing here, let’s do a little refresher. In today’s article, I’m going to walk you through the process of wiring up your Azure subscription to work with your Office 365 Organization accounts as well as Live ID. Maybe you’ve heard of Microsoft Azure, maybe you haven’t.