I want to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time

LOG INTO MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Original user posted:
I would like to heave this multi-team/tenant option within “MS Teams”, like in Slack. Currently I’m in four different organization. They’re using all office365, three of them now changed from Slack to Teams. I’ve to permanently login/logout to switch to the related MS Team. This is really time consuming.

Another user says:
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.

SHARED CHANNELS ACROSS TEAMS
From a merged idea:
Please add support for shared channels which could be used in multiple teams. Suppose there is one company-wide team with multiple channels. It would be great if all teams within the company could include these channels or at least one of them in their own team. In that way you don’t have to recreate the channel for every team again.

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

working on it ·

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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working on it ·

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

on the backlog ·

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

on the backlog ·

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

on the backlog ·

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

on the backlog ·

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.

working on it ·

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

needs your feedback ·

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

working on it ·

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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Taiki Kuribara commented · December 18, 2018 10:10 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi @admin ,
How about latest status about this?
Anonymous commented · December 18, 2018 3:49 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Need to make the Tenant switch option better
Vijay commented · December 18, 2018 7:38 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any planned release date on this backlog.. @admin
Sheldon Kelly commented · December 18, 2018 5:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

hey folks, any new updates regarding this feature?
Anonymous commented · December 18, 2018 3:37 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Oh this is so necessary. Switching teams takes a long time so I often don't bother checking the other one.

It would be great if we could just keep 2 tenants open at the same time.
Nick commented · December 17, 2018 4:09 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Need this as well and other apps handle this ... Hurry Up Microsoft!
Aaron A commented · December 17, 2018 2:59 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Agreed, there shouldn't be any tenant switching, those cross tenant groups should just show up. Maybe a seperate section for external teams, but it should be a quick access function.
John Paulsen commented · December 15, 2018 9:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Sharing across tenants should not be allowed, however having the ability to switch tenants using a different authenticated account would be awesome, as the original requester asked for.
Rob Nicholson commented · December 15, 2018 5:32 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Big thumbs up for this across the board. I end up having to use multiple browsers (like ALL of them) and virtual machines to allow me to be logged into multiple tenants. Sure, it's not usual for normal users to have to do this but for 3rd party IT support companies, it's a real faff.
Anonymous commented · December 14, 2018 4:13 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I’m having this very issue. Information flows to two O365 identities. Flipping back and forth is upsetting to management and difficult for users. We need a means to access 2+ O365 accounts and not be interrupted with log-in/log-offs.
Benedikt Althaus commented · December 14, 2018 8:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

We are using this on at the moment to work with mutliple organizations / teams.
https://tomtalks.blog/2017/11/microsoft-teams-guest-access-chrome-web-apps/
But build in way to handle them in one desktop app would be great!
Paul Campbell commented · December 14, 2018 5:07 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Absoultely having the same problem with Multiple logins from multiple agencies/roles/jobs etc.
The suggested solution of getting them all to use my one Teams ID login would never work currently. Nor that they will all agree to be federated. An absolute need to be able to rapidly switch across logins. Needs then also to be clear across the '365 suite' under which login you are currently working.
Eric L. commented · December 13, 2018 12:52 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I also have a multi-tenant organization and would like this feature. I would be fine if you simply let us open multiple windows, but that is not allowed right now.
Anonymous commented · December 12, 2018 11:34 PM · Flag as inappropriate

When will it be available?
Jennifer Goodrich commented · December 12, 2018 8:34 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any updates on this feature request? (Echoing others since it's been since August, and it was previously being worked on)
ed commented · December 12, 2018 3:45 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Really need this. Slack eats Teams for breakfast in this aspect, with fast switching between organizations.
Anonymous commented · December 11, 2018 8:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I use the Web portal teams on one account and the desktop app for my other MS account. Crop the window so they are both the same size and you don't even notice the difference.
Daniel Fankhauser commented · December 11, 2018 6:34 AM · Flag as inappropriate

did something change in this question?
Anonymous commented · December 10, 2018 11:23 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Nope. For the sake of security, mobile device management, this should be enabled via the ability to have multiple clients open. Multiple identities in the same app instance just invites problems.
Charles Van Heusen commented · December 10, 2018 6:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Worst case scenario, make it similar to Outlook where you can have multiple profiles for logging into and a prompt to choose which profile to sign in with upon the application launch or device start up.