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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Jose Gonzalez commented · October 16, 2019 16:56 · Flag as inappropriate

Looking forward for the update. I see this is available on my mobile app but not on the PC app. Please make it available on the PC soon.

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DI MARIO Nadine commented · October 16, 2019 07:02 · Flag as inappropriate

Same question as for other users : what is the update of this feature ? Thank you team.

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JEBAANANTH VIJAYARAJAN commented · October 15, 2019 23:31 · Flag as inappropriate

Kindly provide us an update on this. It will solve most of us who have teams in their organisation and also the client's organisation, then it will be very useful.

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Anonymous commented · October 15, 2019 10:07 · Flag as inappropriate

Please prioritize this HIGH. Being able to add multiple accounts like Outlook is crucial for Teams to be a business tool. It is very frustrating that the Mac OS client is able to handle a single account.

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Anonymous commented · October 15, 2019 07:57 · Flag as inappropriate

I agree I don't want fast switching. I want one instance of Teams to support multiple accounts within the same interface. I'm a consultant that has multiple Teams accounts from O365. I want it to function like Outlook where I can have multiple accounts connected and I'd get notifications from any of those from the one Teams app interface.

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Christian Haberl commented · October 15, 2019 06:03 · Flag as inappropriate

It is a catastrophe for us, that after switching off Skype for Business, all my employees are not reacheable in our teams tenant anymore, when they are in a client's tenant. Fix this fast, or we will need another messaging solution.

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Simon Baker commented · October 15, 2019 03:04 · Flag as inappropriate

Can we get a Fall update on progress with this please?

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Anonymous commented · October 13, 2019 16:12 · Flag as inappropriate

waiting for this to.
I work in a multi-tenant company.
This is needed!

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slo commented · October 12, 2019 21:06 · Flag as inappropriate

I work for two org. both have teams accounts. I need switch the account betwwen them to reply.

just like outlook, we can setup multiple accounts, and receive / reply different msg in different DIR / MSG, without switchover the account.

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Alex commented · October 10, 2019 17:05 · Flag as inappropriate

Where is it on Windows? MS native platform

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Drew commented · October 10, 2019 15:21 · Flag as inappropriate

It's fall! Any update?? I dream about this feature every day.

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Chris commented · October 10, 2019 07:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Love this being available in iOS, just need the desktop app updated.

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Joe howell commented · October 10, 2019 05:02 · Flag as inappropriate

Any update?

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Thomas Radosh commented · October 09, 2019 14:41 · Flag as inappropriate

this item isn't even reported on your roadmap (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&filters=In%20development%2CRolling%20out&searchterms=teams#owRoadmapMainContent) is there any estimate you can provide for that? I mean it's got 12k votes and last update from you guys was in July!

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Shaun Smith commented · October 09, 2019 12:59 · Flag as inappropriate

This will be a great feature for all 365 users.

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Colin C. commented · October 09, 2019 10:50 · Flag as inappropriate

I'm glad this works on Teams for iOS, but it'd be great to have it on desktop. My work, my clients, and now a club I'm in all use Microsoft Teams. It'd be great to not have to use Firefox Container Tabs or my phone to get them all at once. Looking forward to an update.

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Anonymous commented · October 08, 2019 23:41 · Flag as inappropriate

Any update yet. I consult for 6 companies who now use teams and I have an email address 0365 for each. I am missing important communications because of having to log in and out constantly?

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Anonymous commented · October 08, 2019 17:22 · Flag as inappropriate

No update since July from admin? Please provide one.

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Anonymous commented · October 08, 2019 17:21 · Flag as inappropriate

Just tried switching and realized this is a problem, when you have been setup with same account on external third party tenant as your own office365 login and teams. It is appearing blank for me in a new incognito window on external tenant, errors when trying to use the same window.

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Foz commented · October 08, 2019 10:23 · Flag as inappropriate

I agree I don't want fast switching. I want one instance of Teams to support multiple accounts within the same interface. I'm a consultant that has multiple Teams accounts from O365. I want it to function like Outlook where I can have multiple accounts connected and I'd get notifications from any of those from the one Teams app interface.

Any update on timing?

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