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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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- Right now your best option is to use the web client for any of the two accounts!
The mobile app can have both accounts and have you easily switch between them
Adam- ChrisGapskeCopper ContributorThe problem is that teams is so far behind in features. They add complicated options to try to solve simple issues. Like the forces use of threads on teams. That is realllllllllly bad. In this case we support multiple organizations and can.t see messages from other organizations so teams is starting to look useless to us.
- TheBeerdedVillainCopper Contributor
ChrisGapske I agree, the threaded responses in the "Teams" chats are annoying and as such, I barely use them, opting for direct chats with those who are members of the team because of it.
Honestly, other than concurrent multiple organization access, this would be my primary complaint with Teams as a product. The personal version of Teams doesn't even offer a "Teams" category/view, and I've been thinking about just using that with anyone in or out of my org to avoid using threaded conversations because they get to be too hard to follow. Not to mention that people will start a new thread to simply reply to the one above it, meaning now you have two places to look at for the same information. It's honestly a terrible design choice.
- Isaac_JohnsonCopper Contributor
The mobile has one big deficiency however, at least with Android.
If one of your Teams organization has a restrictive policy (say, for instance, no screenshots) that affects ALL organizations you are signed into. So now my Android Teams can't be used to screen shot my other organizations - this has forced me into using Firefox on android if i need to screen grab a conversation.
Hi freddy311082
I am explaining a related topic here in a short YouTube Vide : Add External Contacts in Microsoft Teams
With this, you can add one organization's members to other as contacts and use them in contact list. Not sure, this help you in all your requirements
Thanks,
Manu
- ChristianEgoBrass ContributorSince with the PWA I can no longer use a Browsertab to have my second organization open this issue gets more urgent!
I often be in one organisation in a call but need documents or chats from the other organisation. But I can not access it while in the call cause switching organisation means teams is "restarting".
This is a real problem! Please find a solution here asap.