I want to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time
LOG INTO MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
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.
Joakim Atterhall
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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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HMD
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Teams continues to be garbage 4 years later. Fix it.
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Anonymous
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"Note: The ability to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time is supported on iOS & Android today."
Maybe for logins, but on iOS 13.3 and the latest Teams client, if you have multiple, even as low as 2, accounts signed in, notifications don't work for either. Sign out down to 1 account and notifications work again.
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Anonymous
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For a lot of people in this thread, I suggest just using Teams in a web browser instead of the desktop app. I just login as different users in separate incognito windows. The desktop app can't open certain links that the browser can anyway.
Another pressing need is to be able to set the default tab on a channel to be something other than 'Posts'
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Anonymous
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Hate to be a broken record, but my MS Evangelist sent me a link to this post saying that it was addressing my multiple account issue. Not sure I see the timeline for the desktop release. Am I missing it?
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Daniel
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Is there instructions on how to actually use this feature?
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Remus
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At this present time, switching ORG on mobile is working fine (as a guest or as an admin on both ORG), however in Desktop app, I can only switch to guest (As I am Admin on two different Teams, i have to send myself a guest access to one of my account)... This is not the best, but this is improvement. Can't hardly wait to have the same functionality on Desktop app than on mobile. Keep going Microsoft!
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Missy
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as a freelancer who works for many companies - having access (not as guest) to multiple accounts is MANDATORY.
i want to migrate to teams but have to stick with Slack for this feature atm.
I really think this is a basic requirement.
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Anonymous
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Three years and still not nearly done. Considering that this affects an army of consultants and freelancers I'd call this bad priorization.
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Bhuvan Pasham
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slack leads in this area. We as consultants struggle to deal with multiple client requests, and most clients have policies not to add trusted accounts from other tenants as guests (go figure). Can we have multiple tenancy capabilities similar to Outlook and slack please.
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COM
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Please,
I would really like multiple tenants with chat/notifications/teams all collected together. As user below said NOT org-bound.
At moment in app I have to keep switching and I then miss updates on tenant I switched out from...
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Hasse
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Hi! Multiple simultaneous accounts logged in at the same time is a wet dream but on android its a reality if you use either Samsung Knox or duo space or similar that separates instances of teams apps so that they are oblivious of each other but both work as Intended. This also solves another problem. 2 managed accounts with 2fa enabled on the same device. So on android it works with a workaround. We need to be able not only to switch between accounts but to run multiple instances or windows with different accounts at the same time, or at least some u ufued notifications
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Anonymous
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@Alex can you explain or point to what 'fast tenant switching' is? Right now (as of Jan 10th 2020 update) in Desktop, I can switch from my main account to a guest one which appears to restart the app, but it does manage to login to the guest account sucessfully, which is an improvement. Howver, there's no UI to switch back again. What are the main stages you're describing above and how will I know when we've got there?
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Justin King commented
First off kudos on the improved user switching .... it's really REALLY fast now which is nice.However we are in a race against time now ...
... with the release of F1 licensing for O365, a LOT of my clients are opting to buy this cheap license for contractors meaning my # of accounts has exploded. I'd love to push back and tell them to simply make me a guest instead but the reality is:
1. The chat feature is bound to the org which makes it extremely difficult to keep up with multi-org conversations (unlike the skype of old which had no issues)
2. Guests cannot be made owners of teams nor given other certain permissions making them inherently more limited than a dedicated account, so they aren't inclined to make me a guest anyway.Basically Teams limitations combined with new F1 pricing of O365 is practically forcing me to need multi-account support asap.
I think the guest idea in Teams has a lot of potential, but Teams itself needs to work out a couple of kinks for it to work. Mainly:
1. Chat should NOT be org-bound. You should always be logged in with your primary account and peopel trying to chat with you directly should always be able to ... just like traditional chat apps.
2. Guest accounts need to be first class citizens. If a org decides that a contractor will make the best PM and thus wants them to be the owner of the Team ... let the org make that assignment.
If you do this ... multi-account support won't actually be that big of a deal ... at all. Still do it, mind you, but I think you're on the verge of providing something better.
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Philip Taphouse
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+1
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Anonymous
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Hello
Do you have more detail about planning for this fonctionnalisation to be availabale on MAC desktop ? -
Perry Werneck
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Well, If we can have multiple accounts at the same time, why not allowing one to add users from other companies in the same team? Is it possible?
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koen poels
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3 years down the road, and still 'working on it'. Come on MS, don't make your users wait any longer, and give them this basic feature on their MS-desktop ...
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Christopher Rodrigues
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I have guests invited to my team from another company (using their own teams account). They aren't receiving tag notifications like people in my company do when I tag them.
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Anonymous
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+1
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Packetlag
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MS-Teams: the corporate collaboration space that doesn't let you collaborate at your workstation. Bumping this because I echo @Aaron_IO. I wish my client site used Slack but we don't have to feel that way against MS-Teams. It's just not helpful in a critical way.