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Announcing account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps!

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Alex Simons (AZURE)
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Apr 27, 2022

Howdy folks, 

 

Today, I’m excited to announce account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps! You’ve told us what a pain it was, so now the days of signing out just to sign back in are over. With a single click, you can switch between multiple Azure Active Directory accounts, multiple Microsoft accounts, or any combination of the two.  

 

Gif of account switching across M365 web apps

 

You can try the account switching feature for yourself on Microsoft 365 web apps, including Office.com, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint. If you’d like to read more about the account switching feature, check out the detailed blog post by our friends on the Microsoft 365 team. 

 

Single click account switching is also available in Office desktop apps today, with more apps across desktop and mobile coming in the near future, including Teams! 

 

As always, we’d love to hear any feedback or suggestions you may have. Please let us know what you think in the comments below or on the Azure AD feedback forum.  

  

Best regards,  

Alex Simons (Twitter: @Alex_A_Simons) 

Corporate Vice President of Program Management 

Microsoft Identity Division 

 

 

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  • Teresa_Cyrus's avatar
    Teresa_Cyrus
    MVP
    May 25, 2022

    The ability to display up to 4 MS accounts so that I can choose the right account without signing out is "Awes❤me!"  Thank you! Thank you!

    Without sounding unappreciative, my wish list also includes the ability to have two accounts open at the same time.  So, I don't have to open Nestor W or Adele V.'s account in the InPrivate browser during a training session.   But I have confidence that you are working on it.  😁

     ⭐Great Stuff - Microsoft!!
    T

  • christofvo's avatar
    christofvo
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 30, 2022

    Hi, with regards to above communication I was wondering if you could help me with my question.

     

    Is the ability to switch between accounts also available through Azure B2C? Within our company we would like to support following use case:

    1 device (tablet f.ex.) is used within a business to manage the room, however all personnel have a different profile on the web application. We would like to avoid people to log out / log in every time someone else is using the device.

    Is it possible for Azure B2C to allow quick switching between multiple logged in profiles?


    Thanks for your help!