You can add a work or school account to Windows even if you’re already using a local account or Microsoft account.
I juggle a few different accounts in Windows. I use a Microsoft account to sign into Windows 10 and 11 through which I also receive email and maintain a calendar. And I use a domain-based work account that taps into its own email as well as my calendar appointments and contacts. This scenario may be similar for those of you who’ve been working at home during the pandemic and perhaps using your own personal devices for work. In this case, you might already have a personal Windows PC set up with a Microsoft account or a local account. But you’d like to use that same computer to handle your work or school account and access. Assuming this type of setup passes muster with your IT folks, you have a couple of options depending on what you want to access and who will manage your computer. If you want to view your work email, contacts, and calendar, and the computer you’re using is a personal PC owned and managed by you, then you can simply add the email account to your computer. But if you want your PC to join your company’s network where it will be managed to some degree by your organization for security updates and other policies, then you could add the PC to your Active Directory domain. Obviously, this is a decision you would discuss and coordinate with your IT staff. As another route, maybe you’re a student or you’re taking classes and you have a dedicated school account through which you receive email and set up appointments. You’d like to add your school account to your personal PC at home. That’s also doable. To demo this process, I’m using a Windows 10 computer, but it works the same whether you’re running Windows 10 or 11.
