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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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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Anonymous commented · October 30, 2020 8:49 AM · Flag as inappropriate

46 months into this, still not a thing. Amazingly slow.

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Avi commented · October 29, 2020 6:19 PM · Flag as inappropriate

We're looking to migrate from Slack to Teams. But this feature would be super useful!

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Anonymous commented · October 29, 2020 1:37 PM · Flag as inappropriate

For a PC based company I am very much surprised that ios and Android have taken priority over desktop computers.

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Anonymous commented · October 29, 2020 12:26 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Is this a joke? Not possible on PC?

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Mauricio Jose Ferreira Lopes commented · October 29, 2020 11:48 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Thanks for helping me!! That was very helpfull!!

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Agnès commented · October 29, 2020 9:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Absolutely inacceptable that Microsoft is totally unable to allow connexion with multiple accounts on desktop. I teach in several schools: all of them subscribed to Teams (great commercial job by Microsoft). And now, it is impossible for me to switch from one 365 account to another, on my deskstop????
Are you kidding????

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Lars Schellhas commented · October 29, 2020 7:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Still waiting...

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Tarjei Utnes commented · October 29, 2020 3:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

My suggestion is that everybody on this list start opening support tickets in Office Admin portal, to try to raise MS awareness.

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John commented · October 29, 2020 12:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Seriously. what's happening here..? almost 29.000 votes. almost 2500 comments, and several years old..? Do we need to change platform?

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Anonymous commented · October 28, 2020 9:18 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I'm in a world of pain managing different Microsoft account across multiple projects. With the inconsistent Teams functionality between Web and App, it's hard to know which one to use in Web vs App.

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Anonymous commented · October 28, 2020 4:44 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Are you people high?

Imagine having to sign out of outlook from one inbox and sign in to another inbox....

Such a narrow minded and assuming approach. For work, we use office 365... For study, I use office 365.. Why the **** do I need to sign in and out to access multiple teams in different accounts!??!?!
Is the name T-E-A-M-S not a plural????? FFS!

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mqt commented · October 28, 2020 2:37 PM · Flag as inappropriate

yes please!!!

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Chris Letterman commented · October 28, 2020 11:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

We are considering seriously curtailing and possibly moving off TEAMS because of this. We work with multiple organizations who have fully drank the TEAMS kool-aid but as consultants, this seriously dampers our ability to engage real-time with clients. Please put some acceleration into resolving!

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John Tumminaro commented · October 28, 2020 9:37 AM · Flag as inappropriate

By not addressing this issue, MS has effectively rendered the Desktop MS Teams application as useless for those of us who have multiple simultaneous MS team accounts that we need to manage.
As a workaround, I have been using the "Profile -> Other People" feature of Chrome in order to be logged into multiple/simultaneous MS Teams accounts (in different standalone Chrome windows) using the Browser MS teams application...and then I have just been resolved that I only use the Browser MS teams application features.

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Damon commented · October 28, 2020 9:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Microsoft's utter neglect of this issue makes me so bitter. Weekly real updates on this issue outlining the progress and challenges would go a long way toward assuaging my frustration. Even monthly updates would be nice... Alex? Anything?

Alex, your last post was in July, almost 4 months ago. Are we to assume that since you said you would "keep you posted as we have more details" that in fact, there are NO new details (i.e., zero progress in 4 months?)

For all of you following this thread, I invite you please to scroll all the way to the top and just below Alex (Teams Engineering) there is a link that says "Show Previous admin responses (11)"

In the list of Admin responses you can see that this issue has been ongoing for more than 3 years. Including several statements about how this "is coming".

I want to like Teams but this is getting ridiculous. 3 years?

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Francis commented · October 28, 2020 6:34 AM · Flag as inappropriate

any update about this crucial feature?

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Anonymous commented · October 28, 2020 2:07 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Nearly eight months since we started to work remotely. The facility we are requesting is rather important. Has Microsoft given it the attention it requires?

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Gaya commented · October 27, 2020 12:17 PM · Flag as inappropriate

any update about this crucial feature?

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Anonymous commented · October 27, 2020 7:08 AM · Flag as inappropriate

When we can use this Micorsoft !?

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Anonymous commented · October 27, 2020 6:20 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Microsoft admin what is the status??????

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