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RobbeVL
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Multiple Accounts

Hi,


I work as a consultant at different companies. Most of those companies provide an e-mail address and microsoft enviornment. 

When using PowerBI community I would preferably use my personal account, so I can keep this no matter what...

Unfortunately I now ended up with about 4 accounts, as the forums now require an organizational account.

 

Is there ANY way I could keep an account if I dont have access to that email address anymore?

There should be a workaround for this, no ? When you change jobs, you lose your account?...

 

Please help me out on this.

 

Regards,

 

Robbe

 

 

 

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BrandyG_iTalent
Administrator
Administrator

Hello @RobbeVL 

 

If you change jobs or lose access to the email associated with your community account, we are able to map your existing account to a newly created account so that you don't lose any community contributions. 

 

The Power BI community does require an AAD account. If the personal account you would like to use is not AAD, you can create one for free by following 'I Need an Organizational Account' in this support article: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Accounts-Registration/How-to-Register-for-a-Power-BI-Comm...

 

Here is what I would suggest, follow the instructions I just linked for 'I Need an Organizational Account'. Once you have the account created, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-cannot-sign-in

to open a support case so that we can map your existing account to your newly created account. In your case, please include the community user/profile name and email address you previously used to log into the community, as well as the newly created community user/profile name and email address of the account you create. 

 

Please feel free to send me a PM if you need further assistance or have questions!

 

Brandy

 

 

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BrandyG_iTalent
Administrator
Administrator

Hello @RobbeVL 

 

If you change jobs or lose access to the email associated with your community account, we are able to map your existing account to a newly created account so that you don't lose any community contributions. 

 

The Power BI community does require an AAD account. If the personal account you would like to use is not AAD, you can create one for free by following 'I Need an Organizational Account' in this support article: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Accounts-Registration/How-to-Register-for-a-Power-BI-Comm...

 

Here is what I would suggest, follow the instructions I just linked for 'I Need an Organizational Account'. Once you have the account created, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-cannot-sign-in

to open a support case so that we can map your existing account to your newly created account. In your case, please include the community user/profile name and email address you previously used to log into the community, as well as the newly created community user/profile name and email address of the account you create. 

 

Please feel free to send me a PM if you need further assistance or have questions!

 

Brandy

 

 

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