Outlook and Microsoft Office
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:06 am
Question for those of you who use Office and Outlook: my employer has Outlook email and it's very intrusive - it regularly tries to make itself the default for saving Office files on my home computer, as well as asks me to install a OneDrive backup from the Work account that would save all my personal laptop files (you have to click out carefully, the default being to back up). I do not want my employer to see ANYTHING I have on my home laptop. For this reason, I use only Web email rather than the OneDrive or Outlook installed on the computer, and try to avoid touching onedrive here whenever possible (other people send stuff I have to review in this method).
The employer began wanting to see things on my home laptop this summer (due to my specific employment responsibilities) and I've had problems ever since, including that all Microsoft programs claimed I no longer had an access key, and now have demanded a re-install and constantly have issues. Does anyone know a good way that I can accomplish work and email on my home computer - I want to be able to use my email but not have to worry about Microsoft communicating information from Office files and activities on my computer back and forth to OneDrive or outlook accessed via the webpage. Ultimately I assume everything I am doing work-related is public, but it's imo terrible that my personal files and family's information or files can be accessible to the employer this way. In the office, obviously, they can and do "remote in" to your machine to update things and look at whatever you're doing (or, frankly, they could always do this physically but now it's much simpler).
The employer began wanting to see things on my home laptop this summer (due to my specific employment responsibilities) and I've had problems ever since, including that all Microsoft programs claimed I no longer had an access key, and now have demanded a re-install and constantly have issues. Does anyone know a good way that I can accomplish work and email on my home computer - I want to be able to use my email but not have to worry about Microsoft communicating information from Office files and activities on my computer back and forth to OneDrive or outlook accessed via the webpage. Ultimately I assume everything I am doing work-related is public, but it's imo terrible that my personal files and family's information or files can be accessible to the employer this way. In the office, obviously, they can and do "remote in" to your machine to update things and look at whatever you're doing (or, frankly, they could always do this physically but now it's much simpler).