Microsoft Account Issue Means Others Cannot Join My World.

I am able to log out of microsoft if it is the first thing that I do when opening the game and I also appear online and can join other people's worlds if it is the first thing that I do after opening the game. However, after I join my own world, I cannot invite others due to the message "Oops! You have been logged out of your microsoft account. To invite others please go to the main menu and sign in."

But when I go to the main menu, I appear as if I am logged in; the option to sign in with a microsoft account is not available. When I then try to log out of my microsoft account (to try to log back in again), the game freezes and I have to close the application.

The screenshots illustrate the error message that occurs when I play my own world (beginning with Oops!). It illustrates the way I appear to be signed in after having received the error message and finally the screen on which the game freezes when I press 'sign out".