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Differences between sign-out and quit?
Hi Petri-X, I found a blog post by Pieter Veenstra who describes the difference in the Teams app behaviour. If you quit Teams app, it will be closed, and you must start the application again manually. If you logout from the Teams app, it will sign out your account and give you the chance to login immediately again.
Log in to Microsoft Teams, log-out and log out again (sharepains.com)
My experience is also, that Teams do a "fresh up" when you sign out and sign in again. The Teams app retrieves all policies assigned to your account.
For a clean shutdown of the app it is better to quit or log out instead a task kill.
Sign out will force quit, while quit will not sign you out.
Sign out is an account operation. You'll have to provide credentials the next time.
"Quit" is a computer operation, like closing any application (Word, Excel, etc.). Quit will stop Teams completely, while the top right x button will just close the screen and keep notifications running. When you reopen Teams after a quit, you'll still be signed in on the computer unless your credentials have expired.
I'd say the Task Manager is the last resort and should not be used if your application is still responding.