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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Daniel Farina commented · March 13, 2019 3:00 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I'm glad you are working on it! This is a deal maker and it would mean the end for Slack and Discord for business usage.
Anonymous commented · March 13, 2019 8:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please do this
Anonymous commented · March 13, 2019 12:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I absolutely support the idea of having multiple accounts. From Outlook365 I could schedule Skype for Business meetings for multiple accounts/customers and see them in one view. In Teams I first have to switch account before being able to plan such a call.
Anonymous commented · March 12, 2019 11:38 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please can you give us an timeline. I asking becouse we have Adoption problems with user ! We are a young company and we have the need to use pstn calling with teams and in other discussion we have with support and account team we see no solution for desk phones in the next month. And as you know when you Switch the organisation you also switch the PSTN connectivity and number! Please hurry up with any solution which bring organisation together.
Cheers
Joerg
Robert Melendez commented · March 12, 2019 7:35 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a must have, its very time comsuming to switch between domains/guest access to other domains. Should be setup maybe like a tab based system .
Lou Hunnebeck commented · March 12, 2019 2:23 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I agree. This is a fundamental issue, the way people are starting to use Teams. I can't keep logging in and logging out to get to other systems. I have different login IDs for the different systems, but I can't seem to run two sessions...
Denis Gelb commented · March 12, 2019 12:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

same for Microsoft Planner please
Anonymous commented · March 11, 2019 4:33 PM · Flag as inappropriate

2 years in the making - any ETA please?
Marvin Riebe commented · March 11, 2019 6:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any updates? Really appreciate it!
Clive Hornsby commented · March 9, 2019 9:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hope this will help everyone to use multiple Teams, until we get the same functionality as Slack.

I am Global Admin for 7 different organisations.

The way I use Teams and Office 365 is to add my primary account for one organisation, as a Guest user in the other 6 organisations.

This means I only need one login and can easily swap between Teams.

The downside of this is that there are some minor restrictions on Guest accounts.
Anonymous commented · March 8, 2019 10:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news?
Anonymous commented · March 7, 2019 12:07 PM · Flag as inappropriate

yep make it like slack
Julia Clark commented · March 7, 2019 9:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I have a school account and a work account so it’s frustrating to have to sign in and out of the app to toggle between the two. If outlook mobile app has this function so should teams
Anonymous commented · March 7, 2019 8:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is essential to make the transition from Skype to Teams a success. Can we have an update on timelines for fixing this issue please. Many Thanks
Jonir Rings commented · March 6, 2019 11:28 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a feature in urgent need, my employer had many companies, I had to switch different accounts to communicate.
Gagan Murghai commented · March 5, 2019 10:47 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This may be the most important feature required. I was thinking to move at least 20 users but will have to wait for this to be available. Should be such a simple feature
Thomas Radosh commented · March 5, 2019 7:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate

it should be ideally implemented in a similar way to what Slack does, allowing you very quickly switch accross and benefit from this amazing tool that is Teams.
Nicklas commented · March 5, 2019 1:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Either this and/or the Yammer way of working it.

And also...it is crucial that mentions and so on quickly travel through between tenants.

One more thing. If someone places a call to you in a tenant where you’re not active on at the moment. The call should “pass through” like with skype and/or if you are active in the same tenant.
Anonymous commented · March 5, 2019 1:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

How can I be notified when this is available? desparately need a better way to switch tenants!
Anonymous commented · March 4, 2019 4:43 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I love teams so much more than slack, but I can only have one team. Because of this I have teams for my internal use and slack for the 4 other groups I have setup. Slack does such a good job of this. I wish I could recommend and use teams for everything, but I can't until this works.