I want to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time

LOG INTO MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Original user posted:
I would like to heave this multi-team/tenant option within “MS Teams”, like in Slack. Currently I’m in four different organization. They’re using all office365, three of them now changed from Slack to Teams. I’ve to permanently login/logout to switch to the related MS Team. This is really time consuming.

Another user says:
We need the ability to sign in with multiple accounts. Many of us have several O365 accounts for various reasons (consulting, etc), and we’d need to be able to access teams directly.
This is not a federation or B2B scenario, but a case where new O365 credentials have been created in another tenant for us. The app today only allows a single signed-in account at a time and that’s a blocker.

SHARED CHANNELS ACROSS TEAMS
From a merged idea:
Please add support for shared channels which could be used in multiple teams. Suppose there is one company-wide team with multiple channels. It would be great if all teams within the company could include these channels or at least one of them in their own team. In that way you don’t have to recreate the channel for every team again.

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Joakim Atterhall shared this idea · Jan 17, 2017 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

working on it ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 16, 2019

Thanks to those of you who participated in the session with our user research team. We are continuing to work on this important feature, and will update you as we get closer to completing. ~ Alex

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working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Dec 19, 2018

Hi everyone! I’m happy to share that we’ve been working on this and are at a point where we need your feedback.

We have designs for this multi-tenant feature and are collecting feedback this week. If you are interested in weighing in on this, keep reading…

If you would be interested in participating please contact the user researcher and generally fabulous coworker of mine, David Quiroz (his email is daquiroz@microsoft.com). He will schedule you into a time slot and will be the person to conduct the interview. It would only require 30min of your time and would require signing and NDA.

We are looking for five people to participate in a 1:1 session with the researcher. We need people who currently use Teams with multiple tenants/different companies (at least two).

Thank you in advance for your help!

Suphatra

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Aug 6, 2018

This is still on the backlog. It is taking a fair amount of investigation to determine the best solution to the request.

I hope to have more news to share soon.
-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Jun 1, 2018

This is still on the backlog. This is taking a lot of effort to dig into and determine the best solution.

No additional updates to share at the moment but I’m tracking the feature teams work closely and will keep you posted!

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Feb 13, 2018

This is still on the backlog. However, there is investigation into how we could make this happen. There are some complicated issues, but we are digging into it.

I’ll provide feedback as more insights are provided.

Stay tuned!
-Warren

on the backlog ·

Suphatra responded · Sep 12, 2017

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. :-( But we are facing resource constraints for this feature and have placed this on our backlog. We know this is an important scenario and have not given up on it though! I’ll let you know once work on this starts up again.

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Apr 27, 2017

[insert round of hi-fives to everyone who voted for this]

It’s happening, folks!

Thank YOU for making Teams awesome.

Suphatra

needs your feedback ·

Suphatra responded · Mar 23, 2017

Hi everyone, I need your help here. Can you please provide me more information I can give to engineering?

1. Some of you have reported that once you’ve been assigned to a different tenant, you haven’t been able to get into your original tenant. Is that still happening for some of you? If so, please respond to the thread below.

2. How are you currently using Teams across multiple tenants? I saw the workaround, but wanted to confirm whether not it was stopping you from using Teams in multiple tenants completely.

3. What kind of work are you in that requires multiple tenant use?

THANK you so much for your help! Working hard to get your voice heard as we prioritize our backlog.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Mar 12, 2017

We’re working on this! If you’d like to test the feature, please sign up for testing here: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AryUNzh1ogZzif8pDcOcx2pW45I87w

Thanks everyone!
Suphatra

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Paul Degenkolb commented · March 20, 2019 2:09 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I work routinely in two "Companies". While they are separate companies with much different presences, there is enough cross that I need to see both companies at whichever computer I am at. This is a pretty important feature.
Patrick commented · March 20, 2019 11:44 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I hope, you (as Microsoft) are aware, that this problem occcurs in each Microsoft product? (In Azure, O365, Outlook) - so what would be great is, if we could have an account managing app to manage our Microsoft accounts. It would be great to have this on each device (Laptop, Phone,...) and maybe we could even configure which accounts we want to use per device.
Brian Prigge commented · March 20, 2019 8:31 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Tentative release date? This is one of the few things holding me back from moving multiple tenants off of Slack.
Anonymous commented · March 20, 2019 4:23 AM · Flag as inappropriate

As an IT-partner I have O365 accounts at different companies. When will it be possible to use these accounts simultaneously in Microsoft Teams desktop app?
Thomas Radosh commented · March 20, 2019 4:14 AM · Flag as inappropriate

is there any update on the below request? It's been marked as working on it for over a month and we haven't had any updates since.
Justas Markauskas commented · March 19, 2019 11:52 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news on this? We need this so bad.
Alex Carlock commented · March 19, 2019 9:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I think this is our largest complaint. Our end users are Guests in other tenants or have full accounts in other tenants. When they are forced to switch tenants, they miss calls and messages in our tenant. This severely limits communication.

Our end users are looking to 3rd party tools to deal with that, and I'd really prefer MSFT just add this functionality.

It's been a month since the latest admin comment. Is there any newer update?
Anonymous commented · March 18, 2019 9:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a serious blocker for my organization's full adoption of Teams at this point.
Anonymous commented · March 18, 2019 9:21 AM · Flag as inappropriate

+1
Anonymous commented · March 18, 2019 3:49 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yaassss plz.
Anonymous commented · March 16, 2019 7:55 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I think this feature is highly important
Anonymous commented · March 15, 2019 2:14 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I am on board of multiple business where I have updated them all to office 365
I have multiple logins but all my emails and SharePoint can be used on the one laptop but teams doesn’t
I would like to see this changed because teams is great for conferences and it has made our communication much easier
Richard Reiffer commented · March 15, 2019 7:36 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is one of the most annoying features about Teams is that it only supports one "team". I am a consultant as well and work in multiple "teams" but I have to constantly log out and back in again to use them.
Daniel Farina commented · March 13, 2019 3:00 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I'm glad you are working on it! This is a deal maker and it would mean the end for Slack and Discord for business usage.
Anonymous commented · March 13, 2019 8:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please do this
Anonymous commented · March 13, 2019 12:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I absolutely support the idea of having multiple accounts. From Outlook365 I could schedule Skype for Business meetings for multiple accounts/customers and see them in one view. In Teams I first have to switch account before being able to plan such a call.
Anonymous commented · March 12, 2019 11:38 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please can you give us an timeline. I asking becouse we have Adoption problems with user ! We are a young company and we have the need to use pstn calling with teams and in other discussion we have with support and account team we see no solution for desk phones in the next month. And as you know when you Switch the organisation you also switch the PSTN connectivity and number! Please hurry up with any solution which bring organisation together.
Cheers
Joerg
Robert Melendez commented · March 12, 2019 7:35 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a must have, its very time comsuming to switch between domains/guest access to other domains. Should be setup maybe like a tab based system .
Lou Hunnebeck commented · March 12, 2019 2:23 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I agree. This is a fundamental issue, the way people are starting to use Teams. I can't keep logging in and logging out to get to other systems. I have different login IDs for the different systems, but I can't seem to run two sessions...
Denis Gelb commented · March 12, 2019 12:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

same for Microsoft Planner please