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Varshini11
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Jan 21, 2022
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Delete my Personal Microsoft free teams account

I accidentally created a free personal Teams account for communication with my business email. How can I delete my free teams personal account? Is there an option to change that to a free business Mi...
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ChristianJBergstrom
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Jan 21, 2022
This is how you delete a Teams free org. if that's what you mean you did? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delete-your-teams-free-classic-organization-2c28cfcf-3fbf-497c-938f-8815a8f6a6b9

How to create a Teams free org. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-up-for-teams-free-classic-70aaf044-b872-4c32-ac47-362ab29ebbb1

If you simply created a Teams account for personal use with a personal Microsoft account you'll need to delete that personal Microsoft account to have the associated Teams account deleted.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/how-to-close-your-microsoft-account-c1b2d13f-4de6-6e1b-4a31-d9d668849979
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MehboobGhai
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Jul 22, 2022

ChristianJBergstrom 

 

Hi Christian

 

Thanks for your post - i have a slightly complicated issue related to it.

 

i have a personal MS/O365/Teams account since i had/have Surface devices, Nokia Lumias, Windows 10 Mobile HP Elite X3, etc. It dates back to Outlook's in-merging of Hotmail. 

 

On Teams, in addition to the personal account I think i created a free org some years back, but now it's creating issues joining external meetings as a guest. I can't delete the org since i can't access the admin email address on azure or onmicrosoft, with a personal account.

 

All this is not helped with the policy changes in business vs personal for Teams etc.

 

My Outlook/MS accounts are quite important, and if i understand you correctly, i wouldn't want to delete the personal Microsoft account. Also i don't want to delete the teams account, only the org which is a second account - i.e., my Outlook/MS account has 2 Teams accounts; one a personal account, and the second, a free Teams work account. I only want to delete the work account. But it keeps saying i can't manage it with the personal MS email (which i'd set it up with), and i can't join external Team meetings either (which is the main vexing issue - i can live with a vestigial account).

 

 

I would greatly appreciate any advice in this regard.

 

 

Thanks

Mehboob Ghai

Mumbai, India

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