Previously, we have seen how you can connect your Windows 11 to work or school account, i.e. organization. When you connect to work/school account, Windows registers your device to your work or school network, letting you access your resources using your personal account. After your device is registered, Windows then joins your device to the network, so you can use your work or school username and password to sign in and access restricted resources. Based on your organization’s choices, you might be automatically enrolled in mobile device management, such as Microsoft Intune. Now your organization can apply policies and manage settings for your device. This guide will show you how to disconnect Windows 11 from work or school account.
There may be anonymous reasons for why you want to disconnect from your work or school account. When you disconnect from your work or school account, it will remove your access to resources like email, apps, network, and all the associated content. Also the data stored by your organization for your device may also be removed.
Here’s how you can disconnect from work or school account in Windows 11.
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Disconnect Windows 11 from work or school account
Manual steps
1. Log into the alternative local account or Microsoft account on your system, not work or school account. This account must be an administrator account. If you do not have any administrator account on the system, create one using work or school account.
2. Press 
+ I keys to open Settings app.
3. Go to Accounts > Access work or school. In the right pane, click on Disconnect button for your work or school account.
4. A pop-up will now appear asking you to confirm this action. Once you select Yes here, you provide the consent to remove all the associated organizational data from your system for the connected account. When you are very sure about this, then only click Yes.
5. Under Disconnect from the organization, click on the Disconnect button to continue.
6. Now you will be asked to enter the alternate account information which you will be using after this device is connected from your work or school account. Basically Windows here wants you to confirm that there is another account on the system which you can use and you won’t get locked out after disconnecting from the organization. So here you can enter the information for the same local account or Microsoft account which you signed in at step 1. Click OK.
7. After the previous step, you will receive a pop-up to restart your system. Click on Restart now.
Once you restart the system, it will be completely disconnected from the work or school account. You can now use the alternate local or Microsoft account you specified at step 6.
Video guide
You can check out this video for live demonstration of above guide:
That’s it!
