Visual Studio: User account you used to sign in is not supported for this application

Question

I use to sign-in to server explorer & query AzureTable entities. However since I have updated to Visual Studio Update 4, I have not been able to login.

I tried using same credentials on azure portal & they work perfectly fine.

Visual Studio

Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in

User account you used to sign in is not supported for this application. Please use a different account to sign in.

To my surprise, Google did not return any relevant search result for this error.

P.S. I have double checked my Microsoft account credentials & they are working. This issue has been happening with other team members on different PCs as well.

Answer 1

I have learned to live with this error. This is definitely a bug in VS-2013 Update 4 which Microsoft should look into.

1. I use to sign-out from current subscription in Azure
2. Right click Azure in server explorer
3. Click Connect to Microsoft Azure Subscription

It works for one and only time. Next time repeat the process 1 to 3 again.

Answer 2

I believe I've had the exact same issue. Here's how I resolved it:

In the log-in page that "pops up" from Visual Studio I deleted the Microsoft account id that I usually sign in with and entered a different account ID that I own.

As soon as I finished typing the account id in, the page was refreshed and I was redirected to a Microsoft account log-in page. In that log-in page I made sure to type in the correct Microsoft account ID (the one I use for Azure) and its password. Having successfully signed in there, I was able to continue working as usual.

This was roughly based on guidance I found in this Microsoft Technet discussion.