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Win 11 will require a Microsoft account?? That's nuts.

How am I supposed to set up shared machines that run equipment in e.g. labs? The users want a single account with shared settings and data. Am I supposed to make a new throwaway MS account with email address for each machine?

We provision an account an account per lab machine, with a name/password that's basically public, then build a Conditional Access policy that ensures those credentials can only be used from that machine.

IIRC that solution is "get an Enterprise image".

There’s always been an option to use set the machine without a MS account

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