I am trying to deploy 60 Tablets with Windows 8.1 on my domain as a pilot program at the 6th Grade level. In doing so I created a test user account in the same OU as the students and signed that same account up for a Microsoft Live ID so it can download from the Store. I then linked the two on one tablet so that every time the test user logs in with their domain account, it works in the Store. So far so good. The wrinkle is when I then log that user into another tablet on my domain and it is no longer linked, unless I go through the linking process over and over again on any additional tablet I sign that user in to. So I don't know if it can be done, and if it can, I don't know where the disconnect is.

I want the students to be able to seamlessly log in to any tablet and pick up where they left off so-to-speak. Pretty much able to use Windows 8.1 the way it was designed to be used. I am assuming the only way the user can use an app is if they are the one to purchase/download it from the store.

Hopefully I have provided a decent explanation.

The association is only done locally (for that account, on that single machine), so it does need to be repeated manually on each computer.

Sir,

I appreciate your response.

With that being said..

Does Microsoft have a plan to associate the two accounts across a domain without having to repeat that process?

Also, I am running Exchange 2013 and would like to know if there will be at any point in the future, the ability to create a Microsoft Live account at the same point an Exchange account is created?

Maybe I should be asking what the best practice is in this situation. What do I need to do to achieve my goals?

• Edited by John E Sousa 17 hours 1 minutes ago

Sir,

I appreciate your response.

With that being said..

Does Microsoft have a plan to associate the two accounts across a domain without having to repeat that process?

Also, I am running Exchange 2013 and would like to know if there will be at any point in the future, the ability to create a Microsoft Live account at the same point an Exchange account is created?

Maybe I should be asking what the best practice is in this situation. What do I need to do to achieve my goals?

I also have a similar situation and would like to know is this is a planned feature.  We use mail hosted by Microsoft for a small number of users so everyone has a Live account but we would like to join them at the domain level so that they do not have to login with the domain account then add the account on every computer.

It's something that we're studying for a future Windows release.  Today, manually associating on each computer is the only option.

What I am taking from your responses is that Windows 8/8.1 should NOT be used in this scenario. It surprises me that Microsoft would develop an OS that is supposed to be the latest and greatest and not make it easy to deploy, especially in a school environment which nearly all of the advertisements I see, are targeted at. This is disappointing. There was a Microsoft rep at a function I was at a few months ago, and he was pushing the product intensely as a salesman would, but failed to mention this important information. I wouldn't have bought the tablets with Windows 8. I would have waited for the supposed "future Windows."

Thanks though.

• Edited by John E Sousa 11 hours 58 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by John E Sousa 11 hours 43 minutes ago