Forced Outlook Sign in

Question

I am automatically signed into the email address I use to sync my edge profile with my phone so evetime I visit outlook instead of bringing me to a sign in page it logs me into an account therefor every time I want to check my emails I have too first sign out to sign back in at my annoyance, how do I prevent this?

Answer 1

@CyberSec9 ,
I understand that when you open Outlook in the Edge browser it automatically login you with the email address that you have used for the Edge browser profile.
This happens because of SSO (Single sign-on) authentication.

If we refer to this Microsoft Edge blog, it says that:

Once you’ve signed in to your organizational account in Microsoft Edge, we’ll use those credentials to authenticate you to websites and services that support Web Single Sign-On. This helps keep you productive by cutting down on unnecessary sign-in prompts on the web. When you access web content which is authenticated with your signed-in account, Microsoft Edge will simply sign you into the website you’re trying to access.

To try this, just navigate to Office.com while signed into Microsoft Edge with your work or school account. Notice that you didn’t need to sign in with your username and password—you are simply authenticated to the website and can access your content immediately. This also works on other web properties that recognize the organizational account you are signed in to.

If you want to disable automatic log-in for Outlook then I suggest you use the local account instead of using the Microsoft/ Outlook account for Edge browser profile. then after it will prompt you every time for credentials when you try to login to Outlook.

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