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 · 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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Asif Rehmani commented · September 28, 2020 9:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Definitely a big pain because switching between Teams instances takes too long and is a pain...

FWIW, here's an alternative for now to have Teams from multiple organizations running at the same time:
https://youtu.be/IhXRTzHxYLU

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Anonymous commented · September 28, 2020 7:55 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news?

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Jonnathan commented · September 28, 2020 7:45 AM · Flag as inappropriate

News...?

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Anonymous commented · September 28, 2020 3:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I need to be logged in on at least 2 Teams accounts for different businesses. This seems not operational on the Teams App on my Macbook. Hope this is gonna work soon!

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Anonymous commented · September 28, 2020 3:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Can I use Slack client to connect Teams

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Anonymous commented · September 28, 2020 2:04 AM · Flag as inappropriate

i agree to all those who placed this requirement before me ;-)

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Max Fishman commented · September 26, 2020 8:25 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Literally looking for this feature as I'm stuck with multiple account. very surprising it works on iOS !
couldn't believe that Windows eco system is way behind Apple support!

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Anonymous commented · September 26, 2020 10:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

A good use case is those that have a work account and are studying such as University, Masters or other postgrad studies.

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Pistle Jumbo commented · September 26, 2020 4:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Microsoft Teams desktop doesn't support multiple accounts. So in order to use it with customer account you need to sign out of your home organization first. I usually keep the desktop client logged into the tenant I have the most meetings with.

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Clive Hornsby commented · September 26, 2020 1:35 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I am an Admin of 7 Organizations and can swap between the Teams on my Desktop App,

The downside is I can only have 1 Primary account with full functionality. All the others have to be added as Guest users. This reduces the functionality in the other Teams.

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Steffan Hoeke commented · September 25, 2020 3:09 PM · Flag as inappropriate

And what about supporting multiple MAM/MDM managed accounts on mobile?

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Bryan Heindel commented · September 25, 2020 3:03 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I’m not even mad at this point, just disappointed. A day one feature that has now gone 4 years without implementation.

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Anonymous commented · September 25, 2020 1:14 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please just make it work like Slack!!!! You have ripped off all the other main features so why leave this one so long!!! Hehe

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Anonymous commented · September 25, 2020 10:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I am managing this by using the latest version of Edge. Sign into any other teams account and from Edge setting you can save any teams as a different version of Apps.

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Carlos commented · September 25, 2020 9:10 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This feature is also available in the Teams app for Mac. Looks like is only missing for PC

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Andreas. Winter commented · September 25, 2020 12:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Really required - currently it is a kind of polling.

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Anonymous commented · September 25, 2020 12:47 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Alex,
Really looking forward to this feature and could you add the functionality that if a message is sent to a user from a tenancy where they have an account, that this message is relayed to the tenancy where the user is currently actively engaging with without the need to switch to the other tenancy.

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Anonymous commented · September 24, 2020 11:53 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hello, pls the 2020 is calling Team...

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Move Work Forward commented · September 24, 2020 11:36 PM · Flag as inappropriate

+1

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Jeremy commented · September 24, 2020 7:11 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This needs to happen ASAP - many of us are contractors who have multiple places using teams now.

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