Hi, It appears to be impossible to delete an organization from TeamsPlease see the picture below. I am unable to remove the organization beginning with L. I have used my personal email for many years, so I should be the one in control of it! I am the owner/ admin of the email account. However there is no way to delete the rogue /linked organization to which I no longer have access.How can I take back full control of my email/Teams account and remove this rogue organization? I've clicked on everything I can find and nowhere else mentions this organization. Clicking on the organization in Teams just takes me to a page saying "Microsoft Teams Free (Classic) is no longer available" with options to upgrade. I don't want to upgrade I want it deleted!TIA

Hey, it comes up a lot. Here are the steps to take: To leave an organisation with your personal account:Sign in to https://myapps.microsoft.comAt the top-left, select the arrow and go to My Account Select Manage OrganizationsHere, you'll see a list of organizations connected to your account.Select Leave next to the organization you want to leaveConfirm that you want to leave What if I can't leave?In some cases, you may not be able to leave the organisation. This is likely due to a setting that they have that disables the ability for external users to leave the organisation. You can read more about this on the Microsoft Support page.

Has anyone managed to resolve this yet?It is very annoying to have 2 organisations on my Teams showing with exclamation errors: "There are issues with some of your accounts and orgs". I have successfully left the organisations using https://myaccount.microsoft.com/organizations. These orgs do not show on the portal anymore, yet still display in Teams and in error state.

Dear Community,I left my company and in consequence paid to get a personal Microsoft 365 account. It appears that the reason I cannot leave the old organization (s), is that I now have a personal account. Is there any way to solve this, it is disturbing to see old employers on my personal Teams account, when i log in with my private email and to not be able to resolve this. By now, despite considering myself moderately IT savvy, I have lost hours of my life to the endeavour. All help for tips would be greatly appreciated! Warm thanks

"Hey" that doesn't work. The accounts listed in the "Welcome to Teams" pick list in the desktop app aren't listed within the Organizations section of https://myaccount.microsoft.com/organizations. I think that's why so many people are complaining.

Hi Ben, update to this question i hope you have time.When i try to leave in the organizations tab, it seems as they have already deleted me.I get prompted for MFA but it dosen't work. Is there any workaround to this where i can still delete the organization?

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HelloBenTeoh
Bronze Contributor
Aug 15, 2023
Hey, it comes up a lot. Here are the steps to take:

To leave an organisation with your personal account:
Sign in to https://myapps.microsoft.com
At the top-left, select the arrow and go to My Account

Select Manage Organizations
Here, you'll see a list of organizations connected to your account.
Select Leave next to the organization you want to leave
Confirm that you want to leave

What if I can't leave?
In some cases, you may not be able to leave the organisation. This is likely due to a setting that they have that disables the ability for external users to leave the organisation. You can read more about this on the Microsoft Support page.
- ChrisHill68
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 12, 2025
  My rogue account did not appear under the organisations through Manage Organizations. However, through Settings within the Teams app, under the Accounts and orgs option, there was an option to leave the additional account. While this did send me back to the Manage Organizations website, where, while it still didn't show in the list, when I restarted Teams, the rogue account was gone.
  - mercurous
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 09, 2026
    This one was the answer for me. Thank you!
- Lesley Crook
  MVP
  Aug 13, 2025
  So agree - so frustrating!! I wrote this on LinkedIn this week and reported it to the Microsoft Teams Product Group. Then just found your post.
- Kaffeinatedkiwi
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 21, 2025
  HelloBenTeoh Any suggestions for when this doesn't work? I've managed to remove two of my previous organisations but I still have two attached to my personal account ask me to login when I request to leave?
  - HelloBenTeoh
    Bronze Contributor
    Jul 31, 2025
    Sorry, late reply, but you'd have to contact the organisation's admin to remove you.

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