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THANK YOU!  I had tried all the previous fixes and none worked.  Did not know (until I read that thread) that Outlook has a “Default browser” buried deep in its settings that will override any other fixes you make anywhere else.

Thanks for the tip — and no, I don’t remember (I find myself saying that more and more often these days…) Is there a way to check / remedy?

Since we’re comparing web browsers, might someone be able to weigh in on Brave?  I know it’s Chromium-based, and am 99% sure I switched from FF because of an article on this site touting its superior privacy.  Is that no longer the case?

 

Tks

This article is SO timely for me – much appreciated.

“In the beginning,” I had an Office 365 account, a OneDrive account, and four email addresses (personal, work, hobby, and public).  The Office 365 and the OneDrive were connected to my public email address, and everything seemed to work fine (most of the time).

Then I began serving on a board that set up its own sharepoint account using my work email address.  Switching logins between my public profile and my work profile was a pain at first, but I got used to it.

Recently I began employment with an organization that also has its own server and sharepoint, and utilizes Office on the Web as the default app for handling documents.  They assigned me a organization-specific email address, and set me up with their OneDrive account.  I use my own laptop there, which also has access to my public and work OneDrive accounts (my desktop at home has only public and work, not the new organization).  And unfortunately, much of the material in my public OneDrive account is needed for my work with the new organization.

The work (Board) accounts are not a problem, since I rarely access them.  The problem is managing (juggling?) my public and organizational accounts – specifically,

• not being able to share organizational documents as email attachments with people outside the organization’s account (which is a frequent need), consequently requiring me to save those docs to my laptop’s hard drive  in order to attach them;
• Being unable to edit organizational docs using the online apps (b/c the online apps lack SO much functionality), so therefor having to download copies to may laptop – but then I lose the “live” updating, which is a problem if someone else is editing that doc at the same time.

To be honest, I’m so confused at this point that I’m not even sure what my question is. I’m very grateful for your article, though I’m afraid that by the time I got to the end, I found myself significantly more aware of the complexities involved, but without any clear idea of a path forward.  I suppose my basic questions – given my setup are :

• what’s the best way to work on organizational documents?
• what’s the best way to save and share organizational documents?
• what’s the best way to use documents from my public OneDrive account in my organization?

I know there are some folks who thrive on answering questions like these, and if you’re one of them, then I’m deeply grateful for your time.  But if you’re not, please don’t trouble yourself  – thanks.

Trying to “spread the word” about this newsletter, I posted the link to this article on FB.  So I was surprised to see that, while it displayed the title of the article, it also displayed a Twitter logo and advertised 1Pass.

If a friend of mine had posted this, my first thought would have been that this is a phishing scam.  Can y’all do anything about this?

Thanks – the MS download link did the trick.

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Thanks, b!  I tried the first (and easiest) solution at that link — restarting the computer four times — and that did the trick.  So grateful to have that resolved.  Thanks so much for pointing me there.

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b

We’ve tried restarting, but it has no effect.

She knows her Microsoft password, not her Windows password.  However, the computer always logs her in without requiring a password.  But each time the computer “reverts,” she has to log back in to her Microsoft (/OneDrive) account and restore her files from OneDrive.

She hasn’t gotten the error messages you reference, but I’m going to try that as a solution anyway because it seems like her computer has an issue with User Management.

Thanks —

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I appreciate your separating your advice for home users from business.  Thanks –

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Geo, opti1, J9438

Thanks for your reply.   What’s MCT?

And now that we’ve done a clean install (v. 1809), I’m trying to bring it up to 1909 – but DON’T want to go to 2004.  Is there any way to do this?  Even with Pro, I don’t see a way to pick and choose updates like we could do in W7.

Thanks again for your help.

Just received a refurbished XPS15 for my son’s graduation gift.  Had lots of trouble updating everything (perhaps because he and I weren’t always working in tandem  :-\ ), and ended up downloading the W10 creation tool for a clean install.  [Having problems getting past the “Checking the connection to Microsoft.  This may take a while” / “Let’s connect you to a network” loop, so gonna try taking out some of the RAM].  But assuming we do get back onto the clean install path, will the version of W10Pro we get already come with the 2004 update?  If not, how do we prevent it from loading while loading other updates?  And if so, is there any way we can roll it back without having any backup for this new computer?

Thanks —

I thought you needed Pro to defer updates for 30 days – ?

Someone on another thread mentioned the “Advanced Options” that allows you to set a date in the future, so that you don’t have to remember too come back every seven days and hit the pause button again (which is what I’ve always done – just a single user, 1909).  Any reason why this wouldn’t be a better solution?