IT Consultant

Scott Blumin

Principal Solutions Architect

Jian An Lim

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I am a bit confused on surface pro registration. The customer uses business M365 for email, etc. However, it seems that I must register the surface to a personal Microsoft account. &nbsp;This has caused problems in the past - especially with OneDrive. &nbsp;<br><br>Can also get confusing when every employee has a surface registered to a personal account even though the computers are owned by the business. Seems like a very decentralized and confusing approach. There must be a better way.<br><br>Can I use the customer business domain under their Business M365 account? It didn't seem to work but maybe I am missing something.<br><br>Would appreciate the best practice on how to properly (centrally) manage the registration for a dozen or so Surface Pro's.<br><br>Thank you!
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I am a bit confused on surface pro registration. The customer uses business M365 for email, etc. However, it seems that I must register the surface to a personal Microsoft account.  This has caused problems in the past - especially with OneDrive.  
Can also get confusing when every employee has a surface registered to a personal account even though the computers are owned by the business. Seems like a very decentralized and confusing approach. There must be a better way.
Can I use the customer business domain under their Business M365 account? It didn't seem to work but maybe I am missing something.
Would appreciate the best practice on how to properly (centrally) manage the registration for a dozen or so Surface Pro's.
Thank you!

Microsoft Surface Pro Registration

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Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.