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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,...
GraniteStateColin Preaching to the choir mate 😉 I am a member (guest user) in multi tenants so understand your posts. Simply adding that organizations don't always have to add people as guests (B2B) for proper collaboration. I don't work for Microsoft but at least they are trying to do something about it and "second half of 2022" isn't that far away, even though it seems that this specific feature probably would rollout at the end of the year.
I do agree with that. Teams really has no good alternatives. People will mention Slack, Zoom, Google's offerings, Atlassian Suite, etc. but each of those does just a small piece of what Teams does, and you need many of those in a messy hodgepodge to achieve what Teams does with elegant simplicity. That's like telling a Word user to just use Notepad++ (plus needing a dozen other web tools to get part of the functionality in Word). And MS is adding features and improvements to Teams at an impressive pace. If they really do provide the multi-tenant simultaneous use later this year, I'm sure I'll quickly forget this was ever a concern. However, they've pushed it off multiple times and described the problem as solved when they added support 1 tenant and 1 personal account, so I'm skeptical until I see it or at least hear reports from Insiders that this feature is working in testing.
- Thanks for your advice.
- You better add your vote on the above link then. Updated 13 days ago.
- Well, thanks for your suggestions which I do appreciate – but that's exactly the problem: I need full access to several teams and channels in FOUR (different) organizations – several times a day (local, regional, business and NGO, sometimes even exercise of authority, besides where I'm invited as a guest), not to mention we have been advised to no not use Microsoft Teams, because of security issues (GDPR secrecy, no servers abroad etc.) when holding certain meetings, respecting patient safety in specific jurisdictions.
- Well, it's possible to do all that using shared channels. I'm working with loads of tenants too. It's only necessary for me to switch when I need access to an entire team in another tenant. Not perhaps applicable for your use case though and then you just have to wait until they sort it out.
"Thank you for your continued feedback and patience. Support for multiple accounts is a top priority. We are actively working on it and look forward to providing an update on timing."
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c9995dc8-811a-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d9c20 - No, I am legally employed(!) or contracted by four organizations, with responsibility to set up meetings, upload documents, and coordinate work, in all four. (In addition to that I am also a guest in even more organizations.)
- Do you have to be a guest user in these organizations? Perhaps shared channels could replace that so you can collaborate with these externals without leaving your own org?
- It seems to me Microsoft is hopelessly behind with obsolete organizational thinking and immature products. I work(!) for four different organizations and have to switch several times a day. Sometimes I even have to log out THREE times – from the same account – in order to get Temas to let go of the old organization to be able to log in to the new one.
It has been so tiresome that I automated these tasks and simply let my computer repeat the procedure until Teams had successfully logged out from the old account and then, by itself, could log in to the desired one, so I, at least, can do other things in the meantime.
(BTW, I teach programming and automation part time, and have told my students: You won't get approved if you're not coming up with better solutions than Microsoft Teams.)
