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January 08
How to Connect to Multiple Office 365 Accounts in Edge, without Losing Your Damned Mind

In two previous blog posts I cover how to easily connect to Office 365 with multiple accounts in PowerShell, and in Chrome. Those techniques still work great and I use them daily.

Microsoft will soon be releasing a new version of the much maligned Edge Browser. The new version will be based on the Chromium engine, and along with that it inherits some great functionality. One of those features is Profiles. This means all of the techniques you use in Chrome to manage your Office 365 users works exactly the same. If you are already running the Chromium Edge (lovingly referred to as “ChrEdge”) beta, you can go to t​his page, edge://settings/profiles, to manage the Profiles, or click the Profile icon in the upper right corner of the browser. 

An added benefit of Microsoft’s added touch to the Chromium Profile engine is that you can sync settings with an MSA (Microsoft Account) account like your old school @hotmail.com account. You can also sign in with an Azure AD account, which we all have courtesy of Office 365. I’ll blog more about that later as it’s a feature I’m really excited about.

tk

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Re: How to Connect to Multiple Office 365 Accounts in Edge, without Losing Your Damned Mind

This doesn't seem to work with all accounts though. You need a certain license assigned in order for AAD sync to work.
 on 6/11/2020 8:32 AM

Re: How to Connect to Multiple Office 365 Accounts in Edge, without Losing Your Damned Mind

True enough. When you move from personal accounts (like Hotmail) to business accounts (like AAD) the security management gets complicated. The reason some AAD account types don't work yet is because the Edge team needs to find the best way to security store the synced data securely, and in a way that the AAD tenant admins can control it, audit it, etc. The intention of the Edge team is that all accounts, AAD and otherwise, will be able to sync profiles.

tk
Todd O. KlindtNo presence information on 6/11/2020 10:32 AM

Re: How to Connect to Multiple Office 365 Accounts in Edge, without Losing Your Damned Mind

Well - it's more than that. According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-enterprise-sync a certain plan is needed. For eg a Guest Account might not be sufficient, or just having a Microsoft Business Premium and just being a cloud user without a license assigned (for eg an admin account) doesn't seem to be sufficient either.

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 on 6/12/2020 1:04 AM

Re: How to Connect to Multiple Office 365 Accounts in Edge, without Losing Your Damned Mind

Yeah, that's the same issue. Some plans don't have all of the security options so accounts with those licenses can't security store the synced data.
tk
Todd O. KlindtNo presence information on 6/12/2020 10:14 PM

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