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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

When I worked at an MSP I kept running into folks (both businesses and residential customers) using the cheapest PCs they could get and having to work around Home edition limitations. I'm blanking at this moment but there was one limitation that was consistently a righteous pain in the ass... I gotta look up the differences and see if one jogs my memory

Edit: aha! it was the freaking Microsoft account. Its required on Home edition but optional on Pro. A super common issue folks would run into was from Microsoft removing the Windows Mail app and replacing it with Outlook, but the in-place upgrade/replacement would gum up their signed in emails and Outlook would be stuck thinking it's both signed in and not at the same time. Easiest solution is to simply sign out of all accounts at the device-level and sign back in, because Outlook just looks at and manages the accounts that are signed into at the device-level but you can't do that on Home edition, so I'd have to spend even more time rooting around until Outlook finally decided that the account that it was failing to sign into wasn't in fact fully signed in and pop an actual signin prompt