I want to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time

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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.

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

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · December 13, 2019

As stated in the last update, the ability to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time is being implemented in stages for Desktop. Faster tenant switching functionality on the Windows client has been rolled out to the public ring fully, and Mac will begin rolling out soon. Work is in progress on cross-tenant notification improvements, and support for multiple accounts on desktop will follow. We’ll keep you posted!

Note: The ability to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time is supported on iOS & Android today.

Thanks,
Alex & the Teams team

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · July 03, 2019

We know you are patiently waiting for this feature. This feature is being implemented in stages. Fast tenant switching is currently in testing both internally and with early customers. We expect to release to the public in the Fall. I’ll post an update once it’s rolling out.

Full multi-tenant, multi-user support will be added after fast tenant switching.

~Alex

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · February 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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Suphatra responded · December 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

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Warren responded · August 06, 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

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Warren responded · June 01, 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

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Warren responded · February 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

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Suphatra responded · September 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.

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Suphatra responded · April 27, 2017

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

It’s happening, folks!

Thank YOU for making Teams awesome.

Suphatra

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Suphatra responded · March 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

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Suphatra responded · March 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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pavan kumar commented · April 01, 2020 03:32 · Flag as inappropriate

As of today the feature is not present yet on desktop version. When can this be released to Desktop version ?

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davidsaada commented · April 01, 2020 02:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello, working in different companies with multiple contracts, it becomes urgent and mandatory on Windows.
Thanks in advance for your help.

DS

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Amit Gupta commented · March 31, 2020 23:55 · Flag as inappropriate

Dear Support, Like in mobile app we can add multiple account to access different org teams. Similarly I wanted to access multiple org teams on desktop app of teams.
Thanks.

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Arturo Laguna commented · March 31, 2020 22:57 · Flag as inappropriate

It will be really helpful this feature

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Anonymous commented · March 31, 2020 20:58 · Flag as inappropriate

Absolutely vital to the continued use of Teams - I work in multiple organisations and it is embarrassing to 'appear' as an external member because Teams can only support one tenant. The work around of private browser session across multiple browsers seems to be ignored by video conferences.

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Mitch Capelli commented · March 31, 2020 15:48 · Flag as inappropriate

Use Teams in the browser .... for each account you wish to log in with ... open a new incognito window and sign in with your separate accounts ...

There is your work around ... and ...

you are most welcome

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DB commented · March 31, 2020 11:51 · Flag as inappropriate

I agree. Please add as soon as you can. Thanks for all you are doing.

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Anonymous commented · March 31, 2020 11:10 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add this feature. It is hampering our communications having several people making the choice that their other teams account is more important, which for the most part it is.

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Gregor Kreuzer commented · March 31, 2020 05:59 · Flag as inappropriate

... we are in the middle of Corona Crisis and we need to work online all the time with all the other companies we work with outside our own. It makes Teams virtually unusable and certainly unfit for the purpose. Please get this done as soon as possible

I suggest as well that you allow partner companies to be included as such (and not the cumbersome way of guests). Anybody who outsources anything (and who does not) will need this

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Anonymous commented · March 31, 2020 03:59 · Flag as inappropriate

The sooner the better...

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Mansour Ghaoui commented · March 31, 2020 01:58 · Flag as inappropriate

This should have been a feature since day 1

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Leo de Meere commented · March 31, 2020 01:38 · Flag as inappropriate

In these times working for more than one organisation and having a fully paid 365 account in both, it is a nuisance NOT to be able to have 2 multiple accounts open simultaneously.
Please make this happen asap!

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Joh Teeranan commented · March 30, 2020 23:09 · Flag as inappropriate

Do it quick! You were working on it since Jan 2017?

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Rod commented · March 30, 2020 19:55 · Flag as inappropriate

This is so bad. It works on apple products but not on microsoft and they have been working on this functionality for months. Please hurry up with this.

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Serhii Kyrychenko commented · March 30, 2020 14:50 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello dear Microsoft Teams. Want to notify you, that community still waiting for this functionality.
Thank you for your work! Stay at home!

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Nick Gilbert commented · March 30, 2020 08:38 · Flag as inappropriate

Why is Teams still so bad for this when Slack makes it so easy? 3 years on and they haven't got this really basic feature. How many companies really have only one customer they need to communicate with online?

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Dheeraj commented · March 30, 2020 03:11 · Flag as inappropriate

Dear Microsoft Team,
Please make it fast. We are in dire need

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Daniel commented · March 30, 2020 01:11 · Flag as inappropriate

There's just one snag with the workaround. If you start any application from Teams, it will run it with the fake profile. In particular, if you invoke "Sync" on some files, it will run another copy OneDrive.

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Daniel commented · March 30, 2020 00:32 · Flag as inappropriate

@Francois Hill you are my hero. Your workaround works like a charm!

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Duncan Anderson commented · March 29, 2020 19:50 · Flag as inappropriate

This is paintful. Not receiving notifications on those accounts not signed in. Have to sign out and sign in to check..... then miss a call on the previous account agggghhhhh!!!!

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