Windows 8 with 2 Microsoft accounts?

[silkstone]

Hi guys,

I have a small dilemma and if anyone could give some advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

My school is switching from Gmail and Gdrive to Outlook and Onedrive for mail and cloud services soon.

They provide us all with a small netbook, but I prefer to use my personal laptop in class as it allows me to run Ubuntu in a VM for various applications I need to use for practical work. In general, it's all-round easier to work with a full size laptop (and keyboard) than with a tiddly netbook.

I already have windows 8.1 on my laptop with an offline account. To be able to use the offline and folder syncing facilities of Onedrive, I understand that I will need to log in to windows with my work e-mail to do this, and I believe I can disable all sync settings

I'm wondering what the implications would be to log into my personal computer with my work account ( changing my current account from a local account). If I turn off the option to sync settings, is any other information sent to Microsoft?

 

[zsolt_93]

You could create a secondary account that is Microsoft account and leave the current one as it is. And it should only sync the Microsoft acc. eneabled user and you can still have your old things as they always were, in case you question MS security and what they might collect about you.

 

[Mindweaver]

Yea, I would create a local account and just use your school account to login to Outlook and Onedrive.

Edit:
Here switch between local and microsoft account.

 

[silkstone]

You could create a secondary account that is Microsoft account and leave the current one as it is. And it should only sync the Microsoft acc. eneabled user and you can still have your old things as they always were, in case you question MS security and what they might collect about you.

I was thinking of doing that, but it will be a PITA setting everything up on the 2nd account again. I might go that way and just spend the time getting the account in order.

Yea, I would create a local account and just use your school account to login to Outlook and Onedrive.

Edit:
Here switch between local and microsoft account.

The problem is, I would need to switch at the start of every day. Extra reset and waiting for the settings to be applied etc. Also, I'm not sure whether one drive would be maintained after switching back to a local account. I wouldn't want to have to re-sync every time I logged in. I may have to do some testing to see if onedrive is maintained after switching back to a local account.

 

[Mindweaver]

The problem is, I would need to switch at the start of every day. Extra reset and waiting for the settings to be applied etc. Also, I'm not sure whether one drive would be maintained after switching back to a local account. I wouldn't want to have to re-sync every time I logged in. I may have to do some testing to see if onedrive is maintained after switching back to a local account.

I would login to one and then switch user leaving both accounts logged in while working. You'll need to be logged in for one drive to sync.

EDIT: I use both all the time. and switching accounts is really fast in windows 8/8.1.

 

[silkstone]

I would login to one and then switch user leaving both accounts logged in while working. You'll need to be logged in for one drive to sync.

EDIT: I use both all the time. and switching accounts is really fast in windows 8/8.1.

That's a great idea, I can just create a link to the one drive folder on my primary account!
Will the files still sync if I'm logged in, but not active, and will the be any noticeable effect on performance?

 

[Mindweaver]

That's a great idea, I can just create a link to the one drive folder on my primary account!
Will the files still sync if I'm logged in, but not active, and will the be any noticeable effect on performance?

Yep, I've not ran into any issues and I use gdrive and onedrive.