How can I store bitlocker recovery keys on my Microsoft account but NOT use the Microsoft account to logon to my PC?

[Andrew Brehm]

I have one PC and a test VM where I somehow managed to be able to save bitlocker keys to my Microsoft account although both machines use a local account.I am trying to achieve the same thing on two other machines, one Windows 10, one 11. But both only give me the choice of "switching" to a Microsoft account, not to link a Microsoft account.On the machine where it works, it looks like this in accounts settings:On the machine where it doesn't work, it looks like this:Note again that the first machine is NOT using the Microsoft account for logon. I can change the password with net user username w

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