We're seeing this on all PC's joined during the OOBE setting up Windows 10. You set up the machine, login with the domain/AAD account, set up the PIN, setup Office 365, login about a gazillion times with the same credentials.
When you go to the Accounts - Sync Settings you can't turn it on. We'd like to be able to have users sync settings with their AAD account. But even if you add an MSA account, sync settings is disabled. So you can't get any settings already set up and have
to go through a tedious manual process for every box. Plus all their apps need setup because no sync.
Is there something that needs to be turned on to allow this, or at least allow MSA settings to sync? We're trying to move all the way to Windows 10, but a lot of this doesn't seem finished yet...
Oh, and on the logins issue--there is a lot of work to do here. You put in the credentials over and over and over and over. It seems like there should be a master login (AAD) and then feed those credentials for everything in that user session. Then if they
add an MSA, just use that popup to pick which to use (but not log in over and over).
Office apps, Office web, Intune, local Win32 apps, Windows Store (for business), etc. At least use the biometrics or PIN rather than full on login. Even logging into one app goes like this
Windows: LOGIN
Me: emailaddress...tab...
WINDOWS: STOP! Microsoft Account or Work/School Account?
ME: work...
WINDOWS: STOP! let me clear what you already typed and make you retype username and password.
ME: ugh...username...password
OFFICE: STOP! do you accept the agreement?
ME: yes...
OFFICE: you need to ACTIVATE, close and reopen
Me: okay....closing and reopening, oops! I picked Word mobile instead of...
WORD MOBILE: STOP! You need to login to edit files
Me: okay....username....
WORD MOBILE: STOP! Microsoft Account or Work/School?
By now Skype for Business has started up, sitting there with a taunting 'I dare you' to log in. Oh and OneDrive for Business needs you to go login to the web and sync, and the store would like you to log in, and by the way so would all the apps because
you can't sync settings....
God help me if I have two factor authentication turned on, just makes it worse.
ME: ugh I quit. I'll go make a sandwich and do this later.
It's comical how many times I put in the exact same credentials on a new corporate box (or consumer one). Users get truly confused by this, so we always remote in on their first use to walk them through all the logging in.
Curt Kessler - FLC