Will my school be able to monitor my main user profile if I log into the school account on a second Windows profile?

[Pixelfie]

Maybe a stupid question, but I want to create 2 accounts for my Windows install, because my desktop is just a mess and having Onedrive eat my RAM & CPU also isn't a great thing seeing my laptop has a slow CPU. So, if I would create a second user and log into my school account there, would they be able to monitor anything on my main account? I assume they won't, but I just want to be sure.

[Dedayog]

How are they going to monitor your main account, even if you use it?  Is this your personal desktop?

[Adorable Cat]

It probably depends on how your school monitors students, if you're just signing into another microsoft account your school should only be able to monitor stuff directly tied to that microsoft account.

[pythonmegapixel]

I don't think they'd be able to.

 

However, if you are accessing your school's Microsoft software on a personal laptop, I would suggest that you only do so through a browser  - if you don't, it's far too easy to accidentally enrol your device in organisation management, which is a pain to remove without a reinstall or asking your IT department, who may not be cooperative. A couple of my friends found this out the hard way when installing Teams for remote learning during the pandemic.

[Pixelfie]

2 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

How are they going to monitor your main account, even if you use it?  Is this your personal desktop?

I want to try it on my laptop, but if it works out well I may also try it on my desktop. On my desktop I currently have 2 Edge profiles (one for school and one for personal stuff, both using non school MS accounts).

 

3 minutes ago, Adorable Cat said:

It probably depends on how your school monitors students, if you're just signing into another microsoft account your school should only be able to monitor stuff directly tied to that microsoft account.

I don't know if they even monitor anything tbh, they don't say much about it. The only way they would be able to is with my MS account, which I won't use for the profile itself but for the apps on it. So I think that means I should be fine right?

 

4 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I don't think they'd be able to.

 

However, if you are accessing your school's Microsoft software on a personal laptop, I would suggest that you only do so through a browser  - if you don't, it's far too easy to accidentally enrol your device in organisation management, which is a pain to remove without a reinstall or asking your IT department, who may not be cooperative. A couple of my friends found this out the hard way when installing Teams for remote learning during the pandemic.

I got the laptop through school but I did a clean install of Windows. Whenever I sign into something it asks if I allow the account admins to take control of my device, which I always say no to. I will need to sign into it outside of the browser too, because Office online just sucks.

[Heliian]

1 hour ago, Pixelfie said:

got the laptop through school but I did a clean install of Windows

At their behest or were you trying to circumvent their system? 

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, Pixelfie said:

I want to try it on my laptop, but if it works out well I may also try it on my desktop. On my desktop I currently have 2 Edge profiles (one for school and one for personal stuff, both using non school MS accounts).

 

I don't know if they even monitor anything tbh, they don't say much about it. The only way they would be able to is with my MS account, which I won't use for the profile itself but for the apps on it. So I think that means I should be fine right?

 

I got the laptop through school but I did a clean install of Windows. Whenever I sign into something it asks if I allow the account admins to take control of my device, which I always say no to. I will need to sign into it outside of the browser too, because Office online just sucks.

Oh, you need to be very careful then.  Read your agreement concerning the laptop, it will outline if it's school property or yours as paying tuition.  I don't know how old you are, but usually anything below College/University is still the school's property.

 

So yeah, reinstalling Windows would be 100% against the agreement if you're in Middle or High School I bet.

 

To be clear... you reinstalled Windows on the Desktop or Laptop?  You allude to either, hard to tell. 

[Pixelfie]

31 minutes ago, Heliian said:

At their behest or were you trying to circumvent their system? 

 

27 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Oh, you need to be very careful then.  Read your agreement concerning the laptop, it will outline if it's school property or yours as paying tuition.  I don't know how old you are, but usually anything below College/University is still the school's property.

 

So yeah, reinstalling Windows would be 100% against the agreement if you're in Middle or High School I bet.

 

To be clear... you reinstalled Windows on the Desktop or Laptop?  You allude to either, hard to tell. 

My school works with a retailer that sells laptops. It's my device, because I bought it, so I didn't get it for free from them. It's the same as buying through other retailers, but it's cheaper and in case something breaks they have replacements ready while waiting for repair. The main reason they do this is so teachers can help students with issues because most laptops will be the same. So it's no problem if I reinstall the OS, they really don't care. 

 

There wasn't anything from school on here, but I reinstalled Windows simply because there was a lot of bloatware, some of which I couldn't get rid of. And yes, I did reinstall it on the laptop.