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

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 tenantdoesn't notify new messages from tenants different than the one is marked as activenow new issue was reported by another userso, 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 !!!

adam deltinger , thanks for your answer but I want to mention 2 things: YOU CANNOT MARK A THREAD WHICH DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU AS SOLVED WITHOUT ASKING THE OWNER. I've been in the IT industry for more than 20 years and this is the first time that something like this happens to me. Every time I wrote in a forum and I got a solution, moderators asked me to marked as SOLVED, they don't do it by themselves... That was my big complaint here!!!as Isaac_Johnson mentioned before, this is something that a direct competitor like Slack does in a very easy way... why you can't do that? and if it'snot ready, I can understand it, but mark my thread to SOLVED without my approval it's wrong.We are in a test period cause we are evaluating tools to move our company there. That's why we have only 6 users in our tenant, but the problem the board members has found is that they cannot have multiple companies in the desktop (PLEASE, DO NOT ASK ME AGAIN TO USE THE WEB CAUSE IN THIS CASE, I WILL PREFER GSUIT OVER MS BY FAR as Google's web products are much better and stable than MS web products and it completely reasonable... Google it's been doing this for its entire life), and in iOS and Android Teams they cannot receive calls from other tenants when but the one is currently active. So, please, I would like that you unmark this thread as solved cause I'm not giving my approval to be marked as SOLVED. Please. PD: I haven't done it my self, cause I haven't found where to do it. It seems that it's something that only admins can do...

ChristianBergstrom This is a huge lame in Teams. I'm a consultant and have multiple clients who run Teams. To make this product fit the market, it HAS to allow multiple teams to be displayed AT THE SAME TIME! If one client uses Teams to ask me to work on a project, and another client notifies me they want to meet and discuss something, and a third client has a new process document they want me to look at...I need to see the feeds just like a multi-email Outlook: with some kind of icon or color coding so I can see what is coming from which company, and have something in the chat that makes it obvious who and what company I am dealing with. I am very surprised this was not thought of in the original design of Teams. Needs to be on both desktop, browser, and phone versions.

adam deltinger And where would i find that? It's not in Teams Free... I can say this is a real issue in dealing with contract vendors who have their own teams org's. I would consider it a real serious issue (considering Slack does this quite well)

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: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17750851-i-want-to-use-multiple-teams-accounts-at-the-same 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.

Using Teams with multiple organizations

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LinusCansby
MVP
Jun 20, 2020
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:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17750851-i-want-to-use-multiple-teams-accounts-at-the-same

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.
- MajkD
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 28, 2022
  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.
  - ChristianJBergstrom
    MVP
    Oct 29, 2022
    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
- RSWalker
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 01, 2021
  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.
  - ChristianBergstrom
    Silver Contributor
    Feb 01, 2021
    RSWalker Hello, multi-account support is coming very soon!
    
    You can follow it here https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17750851-i-want-to-use-multiple-teams-accounts-at-the-same
    
    And the associated roadmap id (the info isn't updated so don't bother about that)
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams&searchterms=68845
- vtwinspring
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 29, 2020
  are you able to screen share from the web. that is the limitation i see and did not see a workaround? LinusCansby
adam deltinger
MVP
Jun 20, 2020
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
- ChrisGapske
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 01, 2021
  The 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.
  - TheBeerdedVillain
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 18, 2021
    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_Johnson
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 03, 2020
  adam deltinger
  
  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.
manuphilip
MCT
Jun 20, 2020
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
- ChristianEgo
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 21, 2022
  Since 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.

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