Microsoft Tackles Its Cloud Identity Account Overlap Problem

Microsoft is working to untangle user accounts that straddle both its consumer and corporate cloud services, helping administrators keep a tighter lid on corporate data.

With one foot in the corporate world and another in the consumer realm, Microsoft has developed a problem. And its enterprise customers, by extension, are feeling the effects.

On one side are users that access their consumer services like Xbox Live with their Microsoft Accounts (formerly Live ID). On the other are corporate accounts managed by the company’s cloud- based user identity management platform, Azure Active Directory (AD). On occasion, a corporate email address is associated with both, causing problems for security-conscious IT departments.

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