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Wiki  >  TechNet Articles  >  How to Request Your Email or Live ID Changed on an MSDN or TechNet Profile

How to Request Your Email or Live ID Changed on an MSDN or TechNet Profile

How to Request Your Email or Live ID Changed on an MSDN or TechNet Profile

This article is part of the Wiki series: MSDN/TechNet Forums. 

Issue

A common request on MSDN and TechNet Forums sounds like this...

"Is there any way one can change the associated LIVE ID with MSDN forums? I am registered through one email, which is a LIVE ID given to a Microsoft student partner (MSP). Apparently, this LIVE ID, as decided by MSP program, is expiring - so i was hoping if it is possible to transfer my live ID to another account."

Solution


Click HERE and submit your information via our Site Feedback system. That way we can confirm who you are and reach out if we have any questions. The process is that we would have you create a new account with a new Live ID. And then we'll switch the Live ID on the two accounts. That will give you the desired email login for your current account.

If you just want to change the email where you recieve alerts (for Gallery, Forums, Wiki, and Blogs), then see How to Change Your Email in Your MSDN/TechNet Profile Settings. 

If you want to switch the entire Live ID/Microsoft Account (all the services and not just two MSDN/TechNet profiles), or if this is more of a Live ID/Microsoft Account issue, see How to Troubleshoot Microsoft Account Issues.

Please note that is not possible to MERGE accounts together. We  can only change which Live ID is associated with which profile but we can't take your points and achievements and merge them into another account.
 

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Credit


Thanks to Sean Jenkin for providing the solution.
 

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  • 19 Feb 2013 1:11 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 13. Comment: Added See Also and other links

  • 11 Apr 2012 10:50 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: Added the Spanish version

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  • Posted by
    on 21 Oct 2011 6:33 AM

    I have my old Windows Live ID paralyzed by my own fault and I hope this solution helps, my old successes (965 posts / 5715 Recognition Points /MCC Status) will soon be visible again.

    Thanks

    Regards from Germany

    Oliver  Michalski

  • Posted by
    on 21 Oct 2011 2:43 PM

    Oliver,

    Leave another comment if it doesn't or email me at edprice at Microsoft. Thank you!

    Ed

  • Posted by
    on 25 Jan 2012 5:33 PM

    Thank you. I was able to get my Live ID changed after submitting a request via Site Feedback system.

  • Posted by
    on 27 Jan 2012 2:54 PM

    Paras,

    Success! Excellent! =^)

  • Posted by
    on 5 Feb 2012 9:46 PM

    Hi Ed !

    I was thinking myself to write up this wiki article, bu is nice to see that you have already done it. Glad to see it, you are really nice at writing wiki's.

    Thanks, Hasham

  • Posted by
    on 4 Apr 2012 4:52 AM

    This request is to merge account [my fnf account] to [my lpsvcs account].

  • Posted by
    on 11 Apr 2012 10:50 PM

    Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: Added the Spanish version

  • Posted by
    on 11 Apr 2012 10:52 PM

    Regarding Kent's comment, we continued the discussion over email. Please note that this is a swap process and not a merge process (merging currently is not available).

  • Posted by
    on 11 Sep 2012 8:31 PM

    I have a question - how can I change the e-mail associated with my Live Id? I want to keep my account, I just want to use a different e-mail. I tried doing so through Windows Live ID, e-mail change, but I got an error all times I tried

    ======================================================================

    Use a different email address as your Microsoft account

    There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later.

  • Posted by
    on 12 Sep 2012 5:44 PM

    Naomi,

    Well, does the Live ID support site help? Essentially that's the same as the service provided in this article. Have you done this? If it hasn't worked, you can email me, and I'll send a direct request to the support team. Thanks!

  • Posted by
    on 19 Sep 2012 2:06 PM

    Naomi was actually looking for these instructions: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../13613.how-to-change-your-email-in-your-msdntechnet-profile-settings.aspx

  • Posted by
    on 20 Sep 2012 10:21 PM

    thnaks

  • Posted by
    on 24 Nov 2012 4:58 PM

    sosservicodejardinagem@live.com

  • Posted by
    on 27 Nov 2012 8:00 PM

    SOS, why did you give us your email?

    Thanks!

  • Posted by
    on 18 Feb 2013 12:33 AM

    Hi Ed Price,

    Does this witching process only switch the MSDN or TechNet Profile of the 2 live ids, or switch all the services related to the live ids (such as Messenger, Skype, Xbox purchase)?

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