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 · Jan 17, 2017 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Nov 5, 2020

The engineering team is continuing to work on adding support for multiple accounts on desktop clients. We will first launch support for 1 work/school account and 1 personal account so users can enjoy Teams for work and personal side-by-side. Windows and MacOS. Support for multiple work accounts is still being worked on and will come at a later date.

You can track status via the roadmap here: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=68845.

Thanks!

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jul 7, 2020

The ability to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time is supported on iOS & Android today. The feature team is continuing to work on support for multiple accounts on desktop. We’ll keep you posted as we have more details.

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Dec 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 · Jul 3, 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 · 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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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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Jenny commented · March 22, 2020 5:24 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Has this feature been updated yet for desktop? I need to add two different school accounts to one, so it's easier to manger on my laptop. I can do it from the phone, but I need to demo software, any suggestions?

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Anonymous commented · March 22, 2020 10:58 AM · Flag as inappropriate

is this working now?

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Anonymous commented · March 21, 2020 1:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

scroll down to the next page, there is an answer from MS regarding ETA:

"currently we don't have an ETA on the release on this feature. We thank you for your patience in this matter."

all we can do is ask them in soc.networks and via corporate channels, not here..

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Anonymous commented · March 20, 2020 7:53 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Update on ETA?

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Simon King commented · March 20, 2020 7:07 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Now more than ever!!! Please

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Anonymous commented · March 20, 2020 11:51 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It's embarassing that this isn't working yet. Switching is even slower with all the craziness happening and the product barely functions if you try to switch.

Time to go zoom or slack

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Anonymous commented · March 20, 2020 7:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Use Slack instead! MS has been "working" on this for 3 years.

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Anonymous commented · March 20, 2020 7:36 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yup a much needed feature ... Skype for business didn't have this !!

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Alex commented · March 20, 2020 6:25 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I'm members of several organisations. It is increasingly frustrating to work with them as checking messages in one tenant and then swapping to the next makes you miss messages in another one. It is just unbearable to work with several organisations.

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Mike commented · March 20, 2020 5:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

just bought an iPad to do this. Brilliant; to boost also sales of other companies

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Sam Albaniel commented · March 20, 2020 5:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi. Do we have update on this? It's hard to switch accounts just to see check if you have a chat....

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YC commented · March 20, 2020 2:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

@alex admin What's the update on multiple teams account rollout on Mac?

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Pat commented · March 20, 2020 1:16 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I think with the mass move to home working this feature should get fast tracked. Many users will have multiple Teams accounts and need to have them accessible all the time.

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Carlos Bomtempo commented · March 19, 2020 4:37 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Come one guys! How many years Microsoft needs to implement that? Everyone is asking for it... It's the top 1 item on the public request list...

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Anonymous commented · March 19, 2020 3:43 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I've been searching for this very specific function. I use three mail addresses (one professional, one private and one for my NGO), but would like to see all my channels in one desktop, or at least being able to pre-register several e-mail addresses to switch from one address to another.

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Josh commented · March 19, 2020 1:53 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Can confirm it is working as expected on iOS.

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Badis commented · March 19, 2020 9:24 AM · Flag as inappropriate

The first comment was : mercredi 02 novembre 2016 21:56
the last one : vendredi 04 novembre 2016 14:21

When will you add this futurs very important to all of us?

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Anonymous commented · March 19, 2020 9:14 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Just wanna tell you that I am also one of the persons that needs this functionality very urgently! Teams is great, but not being able to use it in multiple environments is crazy!

Even having more MS Office 365 accounts does not help you!

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Anonymous commented · March 19, 2020 3:17 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It's urgent for this tool (Teams & O365) to be aligned with competitors such as Slack.
And as several of other people have already mentioned - that will become more than helpful for consultants working with different clients.
Thank you !

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Anonymous commented · March 19, 2020 3:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yep. Everyone wants this. I know this is not new news, and no it's not ideal.... but this does work, after a fashion.

https://www.allabout365.com/2017/09/multiple-teams-accounts/

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