I have a home PC, running Windows 10, and a Office 365 subscription (I am not sure that's relevant but it might be). I have tried to use Microsoft Teams for 3 separate situations:
1) I was on a remote course at a university. The university setup Teams for the students and tutors. I used login details provided by the university to access its Teams groups. I finished the course and I am no longer at the university, but they still permit access to Teams chats etc.
2) An organisation I worked with invited me to join their Teams and I used it off and on over the last few months with mixed success.
3) I am now trying to use Teams, as a sole trader, to work with various people (e.g. other professionals, clients, etc).
However, Teams seems to have gone mad and won't work properly! I have read and tried many things online and in this forum in attempts to get it working, including uninstalling it, and clearing all the folders and files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams. But I cannot get it working properly.
Each time I cleared the Teams folder and then started the app it looks like something positive is happening. It does take a couple of app restarts to get it working (it appears not to have all the files it needs so takes a while to get going, I think) and then, on the second or third restart of the app it opens my university's Teams account (there is no prompt for a password, strangely). As this is not the Team account I want to use, I logout of it and get a prompt to select another account. Now, it seems to have remembered that I have previously asked to setup a Teams account for my email, because that is listed at this point as an option. However, if I select my email and provide the login in details it asks for, I just get the "We're sorry..." message. On the last umpteenth iteration of trying to sort this out (I want to do some real work Microsoft!!) I noticed a small error message in the bottom left of the Teams error screen that said "Due to org policy, you can’t use <my email address> with Teams on this device. Contact your admin for more info". I am the administrator! I only have this one PC! Where is the policy that says I can or cannot use Teams?
Can anyone offer any insight and assistance?
