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Using Teams with multiple organizations
So, over 3 years since the original question and still no proper support for multiple organisations?!
Taking a look at the https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams#owRoadmapMainContent 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
- MajkDOct 19, 2023Copper ContributorThe 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. - MajkDSep 19, 2023Copper ContributorIf Mike is employed by Org1 and Aaron is with Org2, it is likely that in the new Teams 2.0, Mike (as a Guest in Org2's Teams) can still converse with Aaron, while Aaron (as a Guest in Org1's Teams) can communicate with Mike. This setup would essentially allow for two completely separate one-to-one conversations to occur.
- YellowCatSep 19, 2023Copper Contributor
I can already communicate with multiple Orgs as a guest using my own account. However, a guest doesn't get full functionality such as uploading files in chat making the guest experience fairly useless for collaborating (see screenshots). I can workaround this by uploading files separately and then sharing it that way but it's not exactly convenient to share multiple files every day.
To get around the guest limitations most clients set me up as part of their Org which is where the multiple Org problems start. I'm currently registered in 4 different Orgs (4 different domains) and I want to get notifications from them all in one place. This is currently impossible and is the problem many other contractors face.
At the moment my largest client is logged into my Teams desktop app and others have to be accessed via the web app. I rely on the mobile app to get notifications. It's basically a mess!
- YellowCatSep 18, 2023Copper ContributorThanks for that but this relates to the Windows version. As stated in my post, I use Teams on a Mac like many other design-related contractors. It seems crazy that this issue has existed for years now and I'm still having to log in to multiple accounts using a workaround and, as a result, am missing notifications from clients. Does anyone know when Mac users can expect the new preview version?
I'm an admin for my organisation and I have enabled the Preview for all users but it's not showing up on the Mac desktop version.- MichaelDelpachSep 18, 2023Brass Contributor
YellowCat Microsoft hasn’t fixed the issue if the new version still cannot see all the Teams the user has joined across multiple organisations.