Any recipient without the corresponding private key, however, sees indecipherable text. Only the recipient who has the private key that matches the public key used to encrypt the message can decipher the message for reading. Encrypting an email message in Outlook means it's converted from readable plain text into scrambled cipher text. That licence might be directly owned or shared by someone else as part of a Microsoft 365 Family (formerly Home) plan.When you need to protect the privacy of an email message, encrypt it. ‘Belongs to …’ shows the email address that software licence is linked to. We recommend digging a little deeper and find the ‘Belongs to. Work and Personal) so the login details at top right of the title bar do not necessarily show the owner of the Microsoft 365 plan. Note: it’s possible to have multiple account logins to Office software (e.g. There’s also a Manage Account button which opens a browser window to show your Office 365 account details at. If you have Microsoft 365 software or apps installed on a computer or device, the linked Office 365/Microsoft 365 account is shown on one of the info screens. There are two ways to discover your Microsoft 365 linked email address, depending on whether you have Microsoft 365 software installed and activated or not.

If you know which email address to use for your Microsoft account login, then you’re good to go.īUT, it’s also possible to have multiple Microsoft accounts with different email logins! For example, a Microsoft account with your regular or permanent email address and another Microsoft account for your Hotmail/MSN/ email account. Microsoft 365 plans are linked to a Microsoft account which, in turn, uses an email address for login. Probably because the University offer is a five-year plan and people seem to lose track of how they setup their account many years ago. Microsoft 365 University plan customers seem especially prone to this problem. See: Which Office 365 plan have you purchased or using? Forwarding or connected accounts means that one Inbox can have messages sent to different email addresses. Most of us have multiple email addresses and it’s easy to get confused about which address is linked to a particular account. This might seem like a strange question but we hear it quite often. Each Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365) account is linked to a specific email address, how can you find out which address you’re using for your Microsoft 365 login?

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