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Using Teams with multiple organizations
Hi Guys
Imagine that I have 2 companies and I want to use Office 365 for Business in both. How can I use Teams with both companies without logout and login each time I need? If I have to do that, this is not viable at all.
PD: I'm using Teams on macOS
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It's 2025, and you still can't open 2 orgs at the same time, nor can you open 2 instances of the app. I hate teams so much. They literally only just added the feature where teams are no longer separate and hidden away from chats. SERIOUSLY!
Tech_Dad_Tom, you absolutely can now add multiple orgs (not even limited to 2). Microsoft removed this limitation quite a while ago (in 2023, I believe, but not certain on exact timing). To do it:
- Click your account icon in the upper right -- title bar, just to the left of the minimize button
- Click on "Add another account"
- Specify your tenant email address (can also add a personal account to use in Teams Personal, but that's a different system that has been supported for several years)
- Then, whenever you want to switch between them, just go to that same account icon and select the account you want to use
This was one of my biggest complaints with Teams until they added this. Teams is so much better and more capable now than any of the other similar options. It combines the best of Slack, Zoom, OneDrive, Outlook (minus email), Skype Phone Calling (VoIP), SMS/MMS text messaging, SharePoint all into one easy-to-use app. It does far more than any of the alternatives, while remaining just as easy or easier to use.
It still has issues for sure, and I post my feedback for improvements frequently (e.g., Planner doesn't allow pasting screen captures or images into comments, when making a phone call from Teams it always opens the window to almost fill the screen and doesn't remember my resize, and a few other minor annoyances). But relative to the competition? There is none.
The last big problem with Teams for me (other than the Planner issue noted above, which is really more of a Planner problem) was the difficulty external parties had joining recurring Teams meetings, but Microsoft fixed that late in 2024 too.
I believe you are misunderstanding the issue raised. It is not about the ability to add multiple orgs. It's about the ability to see them all in one place, at the same time. With the latest Teams version, you still have to switch account, with no ability to see all the orgs at once like in Discord.
So, over 3 years since the original question and still no proper support for multiple organisations?!
Taking a look at the roadmap there are various features in the pipeline for decorating your background or a new "fun picker" to access all your emojis in one place but as a Mac user, I can't work properly with more than one organisation at a time. Absolutely shocking from Microsoft.
YellowCat New Preview version of teams have support to login with multiple organizations
Please refer to this article : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/introducing-the-new-microsoft-teams-now-in-preview/ba-p/3774406- The latest Teams 2.0, I tested yesterday and unfortunately you still have to switch between organisations. In other words, I work for Company C1, and I have a Guest account (same email address though) in Company C2. In my Teams 2.0, I still have to switch between C1 and C2 on Teams, to see the list of Teams. In C1, I am joined in 3 Teams, and in C2 I am joined in 2 Teams. I just cannot see all 5 Teams together in one window. Is that a hard ask?
When a user click on the Teams button on the left, the UI should be like this:
C1
> Team 1
> Team 2
> Team 3
C2
> Team 1
> Team 2
There you go, no more account switching, and all the teams you joined as a human, are there. I don't know how more simply I have to explain this to Microsoft. We have been asking this for years.
- EXACTLY!!
- Is this every going to come? How come MS missed this basic piece which they did on mobile app but not on desktop version. All consulting service providers are using Zoom or Slack or other tools instead of TEAMS. High time MS to clarify on this.
- Exactly. I'm a consultant, working with multiple organizations. Any meeting I set up, I set up with Zoom. They are losing business on this...
Anyone who need this features please upvote it here
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c9995dc8-811a-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d9c20
I'd like to understand when this experience isn't going to be one that's so painful that I won't use it for customer communication. I can do this in Slack, no problems, no mess, no hassle, but take me to Teams and I want to physically light my computer on fire and throw it out the window it's such a bad experience.
When is Microsoft actually going to make it easy to use Teams across orgs?themsquared THANK YOU for saying that. My sentiments exactly. While Windows and Office products are robust and make sense, I feel like Microsoft carries too many assumptions into their other products, such as Teams, Dynamics, and Power Platform (don't get me started on the latter).
- Unfortunately, this is still not the best way. The General channel is automatically created which is not a Shared Channel. This means other external users cannot access this General channel without having to switch to a Guest user of our organisation.
If this is how Microsoft wants to implement support for displaying multiple Teams from multiple organisations without having to switch, then General channel must be automatically created as a Shared Channel, or not create it at all.
How hard is it implement this? Using Discord, I am able to access my own Servers (similar to Team) as well as Servers created by other organisations without having to switch accounts. Microsoft should just buy Discord and rename it to Teams.
- To the best of my understanding it cannot be done. I have a similar issue, but logged into one of them I can be a guest in the other (as long as my logged in account is added). Sad to say but Microsoft decides how people should use their product and do not make changes easily. Office 365 has been a nightmare for me and how I have used technology in the past. I can list a whole lot of things that OneDrive, Sharepoint, Teams stinks and does not permit customization. You have to use it the way MS decided with way too many details hidden behind the scene - because MS thinks users are not intelligent people. (Been that way since the beginning days of MS-DOS more or less)
- Pernille-Eskebo, why is this still an issue in 2022? All you had to do was clone (more) Slack functionality, and still you screw this up. As a consultant for a number of different customers, I'm plagued by the microsoft-y companies to try to make teams work, and even half the time I can't get it to work in a browser (firefox) profile for that company. I use linux, the thick client exists, but without ability to log into multiple orgs like Slack does, the thick client is mostly useless to me. We _need_ multi-org capabilities in the client on all platforms, obviously I'm not the only one.
freddy311082Unfortunately, what roadmap 68845 (linked in the responses) delivered is the ability to use ONE "work" and ONE "personal" account.
This, of course, is NOT what we all expect, coming from, say, Slack.If you need more than one "work" account, be prepared to constantly log in and out for calls, or rely on the mobile application - the Android Teams client will let you add more than one "work" account.
You can also run Teams in the browser while logged to another account, but you won't be able to do calls if you use this workaround.
To be honest, even with one "work" account the application is not stable - I have one "work" account where I am a guest in 2 other organizations, and one of those refuses to "stick"; I need to follow email link to get in there every. bleeping. time. Despite several purges of %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams and reinstalls.I can see the app is making progress, many things changed, but true multi-account is still not there.
- Yes, that is correct. But the conversation has also been updated since. At the end of the year you'll also have Teams Connect GA and then you don't even need to switch between tenants.
ChristianJBergstrom Unfortunately, based on the descriptions, https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams&searchterms=70766 is an expansion of the existing Teams federated communication model, and as such, still will not provide any of the functionality requested by the majority of users, due to requirements to maintain information within specific tenancies.
Additionally, https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=68845&rtc=1&filters=Microsoft%20Teams&searchterms=68845, which was originally expected to bring multi-organisation logins, did not deliver the necessary functionality to provide what has been requested here and https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17750851-i-want-to-use-multiple-teams-accounts-at-the-same.
Are you able to point to an actual roadmap item that will bring the same functionality that already exists on mobile apps to the desktop clients? (To be clear, that is, any combination and number of concurrent logins — not just one organisation and one personal account.)
Microsoft: Why did u mark this thread as SOLVED when it's NOT!!!
This thread is far away to be solved as all solution proposed by you DON'T WORK AT ALL.
- MacOS Teams doesn't support multiple tenants logged at the same time which is pathetic!
- Mobile Teams (at least the iOS one), even when it supports being logged in with multiple tenants:
- it doesn't notify when someone is calling you from a different tenant
- doesn't notify new messages from tenants different than the one is marked as active
- now new issue was reported by another user
so, why are you marking this issue as Solved without asking the owner to do that??
Sorry, but in MHO this is a fault of respect.... the solution marked as "Best Answer " is not a solution, it's a very very very bad workaround.
So please, go ahead and put my thread on unsolved again, cause I didn't mark this solution as solved CAUSE IT'S NOT !!!
- Hi! Your question was about how to use multiple orgs without logging out/in. The answer for this is that it’s not possible I. The desktop/web clients at the moment. That’s an answer.
If you are looking for having this feature released, you should go to teams uservoice and upvote this feature:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/
Adam- This link is dead
Hi,
Currently you can only be signed in to one Teams organisation in the Teams desktop client (iOS and Android app supports multiple org). There is an uservoice requesting support for multiple organisations, vote for that one here:
I use desktop client for one organisation and a web browser with the teams app (https://teams.microsoft.com) for other organisations I want to sign in to. I suggest that you do the same but use Edge browser or Chrome to get the best Teams experience.
LinusCansby as you know the User Voice link doesn’t work because Microsoft deleted their account. All the newcomers here don’t know how popular that request was. It’s sad we lost that evidence.
MajkD UserVoice is replaced with Feedback portal. The request is still there and being worked on https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c9995dc8-811a-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d9c20
- This is a really lame work around. Hopefully in over half a year SOMETHING better is in the works. Multi-organization teams is hell on earth.
RSWalker Hello, multi-account support is coming very soon!
You can follow it here I want to use multiple Teams accounts at the same time – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
And the associated roadmap id (the info isn't updated so don't bother about that)
are you able to screen share from the web. that is the limitation i see and did not see a workaround? LinusCansby
