Microsoft accounts and remote desktop on Windows 11
This is a weird one, but I wanted to leave this out there in case it helps anyone else.
First a bit of background, I recently built a new gaming PC and installed Windows 11 Profesional on it, logged in with my Microsoft account without problems (via pin and email).
The issue was when I enabled Remote Desktop, the computer would not authenticate remotely with my Microsoft account.
Long story short: you first need to login with your Microsoft password locally on the computer.
And how one does that?
You need to go to go Settings > Accounts > Additional Settings and disable “For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this device (Recommended)”.
Then, you log-out, log in but select “sign-in options” and enter a password.
Once you done that, you can go back and disable password logins again if you like.
From that point on, the account can be used to remote login.